How to install the printer wasn't my question and the answer is actually
technically inaccurate.

The issue isn't how to install a ON printer to a machine that doesn't have
ON but rather why doesn't printing to a shared ON print target work?

It is currently possible to install ON on machine A, share the ON printer
from machine A and set up a printer machine B which links to the ON printer
on machine A. That part works as well as it does with any normal printer.

Unfortunately when one prints something on machine B to the shared printer,
machine A will pop up a dialog that reads "Onenote cannot find the file
specified" and leave you with a freshly opened ON window with a brand new,
but blank, page.

"Rainald Taesler" wrote:

> MichaelH shared these words of wisdom:
>
> > I've got several machines on my network and don't need ON installed
> > on each one but would like to be able to print to my main ON machine
> > from the others. I've shared the "Print to OneNote" printer and
> > connected from another machine but when I print I get a message on
> > the ON machine that the "file cannot be found" and I end up with a
> > blank page in ON.
>
> The "Send to OneNote printer only works when ON is installed on the
> machine. And it cannot be installed separately.
>
> Rainald
>
>