I have a printer and a usb hub and I am wondering is it possible to share the printer over the usb hub to the other systems or do I need to share it over the network? This will be done by connecting all the systems and the printer to the hub. I have been told that it is not possible to share a printer this way. My question is; is this able to be done or would it be easier to just setup the printer to share over the network and leave the system on all the time, or with a print server(costly). I have a felling that money will be an issue so I think that the cheapest way possible will be the correct answer but it all depends on how much money is in question. Also which of these ways would be the most reliable, this is something that I want to work every time all the time. Please help me with this issue.

It's much easier to just share the printer over the network.