Chapter 6. Printing with Your Mac mini

Just as you can continue to use your keyboard, mouse, and display with your Mac mini, you should be able to just plug in your USB printer and start printing. And if you've hooked up an AirPort Wi-Fi network in your home, you can print over that, too. This chapter helps you share a printer between your Mac mini and PC and connect your printer to your AirPort network.

As you read this chapter, you will learn:

• How to connect a printer to your Mac mini.

• How to share a printer between your Mac mini and a PC.

• What your alternatives are if you can't or don't want to share a printer.

• How to connect a USB printer to an Apple AirPort Extreme Base Station or Apple AirPort Express Base Station.

• How to share a printer connected to the AirPort device with both Macintosh and Windows computers.

• How to use Apple's Bonjour/Rendezvous technology for printing.

Connecting a printer to a Mac mini is usually pretty simpleplug it in, select Print in your application, and voilà!print happens. But you have both a Mac and a Windows PC and want to print from both of them, right? This chapter shows you how.