Print Server
Recently wireless has taken over as he standard connection for home printing,
with the more modern units connecting to the wireless router and providing its
own server service. This leaves older or cheaper printers out in the cold as
they have to be tethered to a single computer. However since a home server is to
be the central point in a homes computer sharing, it can be used as a print
server to make USB printers available to all devices.
Hardware
The computer hardware has no special requirements to become a print server, just
the obvious addition of a printer and a spare USB port for connection, or
parallel port if you still have a printing antique that still works.

Software
The printer will be installed as per any normal computer with just a little
tweaking to share it to the network. A Windows installation provides basic
drivers to allow quick connection for the majority of printers out there via
plug and play and these will suffice, as any connecting computers from the
network will be relying on their own drivers to print, leaving the server as a
middleman gateway between machine and printer. If native drivers are not
available then they need to be obtained from the manufacturers website, while
there if there is a choice go for the basic driver package as larger files will
have added bloat-ware that is not needed and takes up resource on the server.
The setup guide will show how to extract the bare minimum from downloaded
package to get printers working.