A technician is installing a laser printer that will be shared by several desktop PCs on the wired LAN. Which of the following best explains why the technician connects the printer to the network switch with an RJ-45 cable instead of attaching it to a single workstation with USB?
It lets any computer on the LAN print to the device without depending on a host PC.
It eliminates the need to install a printer driver on client computers.
Ethernet always delivers higher data-transfer speeds than USB 3.x connections.
It allows the printer to draw electrical power directly through the network cable.
Using the printer's Ethernet (RJ-45) interface places the device directly on the local network, so any computer on that LAN segment can send print jobs without relying on a host PC. USB provides a fast direct connection but only to the attached computer; it does not automatically make the printer available to other users unless that computer is turned on and configured to share the device. Ethernet therefore meets the requirement for multi-user access, while the other options do not provide that benefit.
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