Any kind. you were the one mentioning that you "didn't know which port to use" Clearly it stems from the print dialogs whereby you select the printer to print to? most printers today are USB printers and generally create their own device name (USB#### is a common one). But you should be printing to a "port" but rather to a printer, since the print dialog will state which printer you are printing to. Either way, your rather vague "I don't know which port to use" is what caused a router to enter the discussion- ports are generally used for network devices (printing via the network involves ports and printer sharing and so forth). Last time I had to involve myself with ports regarding printers was with a DOS-based machine. So the assumption that printer sharing is involved is not off-the-wall given the information posted.
Correct, BC. His comment, "Can't figure which port to use", plus the fact that that Lexmark printer is apparently a networkable printer, based on info at
Lexmark Prevail Pro705, lead me to conclude he may be talking about connecting to a port on a router. Based on the info at that link, that printer can, indeed, be connected to a router, apparently either wireless or cabled, as a network printer. It would work the same as my Brother printer that's connected to my router, allowing me to print from any of the three computers I have connected to the router.
