Topic: wireless printing

[John R]

i have a printer that is attached to my little home network.  what settings should i be using to be able to print wirelessly from my lappy to networked printer?

thanks

jr

[JasonR]

Generally speaking, you should be able to print via tcp-ip.  Assuming you're using a Windows laptop and the print server is configured for TCP/IP, try this:

(from memory, so don't shoot me if it's not 100%...)
- add new printer
- local
- create new port
- name it with the ip in the first box: ie: 192.168.1.200
- the next box will auto fill with something like ip_192.168.1.200 which is cool
- next steps just select the appropriate drivers, do a print test, and you're good to go.

Windows considered printing directly to an IP printer to be a 'locally' configured printer, since there's not a print server that spools the job.  Since it's being spooled locally (on the workstation), it's 'local' even though you or I would call it a networked printer.

- Jason

[ethan]

I think you'll also need to enable sharing the printer on the machine it's connected to. In addition Both machines need to be in the same working group.

To enable sharing: Control Panel >  "Printers & Faxes" > Right Click on the printer > select sharing > select share this printer and give it a name.

[JasonR]

FYI - what Ethan described is something different.  Is this printer connected to the network directly (ie: either a built-in network jack, or connected to a dedicated print server), or is it connected to a PC via USB or Parallel and shared out to the other clients on the network?  Former - try my instructions.  Latter - try Ethan's.

- Jason