I have a home group/ network with a windows Vista desktop as the home base and a windows 8 HP laptop, several tablets, etc. communicating and sharing with it wirelessly. I have an Epson R1800 photo printer hooked to the Vista desktop via USB and sharing enabled. Has worked this way for years. All of sudden the printer has disappeared from my windows 8 laptop and I can't print to it and the laptop can't find it using the add printer feature, or search for printer. How do I get the printer back on the laptop and working through the home group network on the laptop? Previously, it showed up as "Epson R1800 on Cheryl-PC" which is the name of the desktop computer. Now I can't find it anywhere and I can't find it by entering that name.
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