Hi Dave,
This one will be pretty easy I think. Are you using Windows7 Homegroups to connect your laptops? If not, you should try to turn that on and then connect each of the other 2 laptops to the first Homegroup laptop; most sharing problems or printing problems are resolved this way.
If you continue to have problems, you should make sure your AV programs are up to date on each laptop, and scan/remove all viruses found. Then download the free
MALWAREBYTES from
malwarebytes.org and scan/remove all found spyware viruses found. Repeat on all 3 laptops and reboot. This should take care of the problem. There are many viruses and spyware viruses that intentionally attack your printing capabilities on your network (LAN), and therefore if you remove them from your computers, your printing will come back. There is an entire different class of viruses that attack network adapters (thus removing your Internet connectivity), Graphics adapters, Audio adapter etc.
All are very sneaky and pernicious and you'd never know you have them. This is compounded on a home network since if you scan for viruses on only 1 computer, they will continue to spread (just like a disease like Malaria) until you wipe them all out from
ALL your computers and remove the computer that was the infection vector source.
Try this and it should solve your problem. If the problem persists, post back and we can give you some things to try.
Best of luck,
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