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wireless printer set up?

13 years ago

We currently only have dial up for internet, but I have a wireless router set up from my old dsl is there a way of hooking this router up to my printer to have wireless printing?

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mike_kaiser_gw
I disagree with Zep, there's no reason you couldn't use a wireless LAN to communicate with the printer but setting it up might not be easy.
- What is the manufacturer and model number of the printer?
- How many computers need to share this printer? What operating system does each have installed?
- Do each of these computer(s) have a wireless network adapter or have a wired network adapter?
- If the later, can the router be place in close enough proximity to the computer(s) to run a cable between the router and computer(s)?
- What manufacturer and model number of router? Usually that information is on a tag on the bottom.
- If you have multiple computers and a dial-up connection I'm guessing you take turns connecting to the Internet? I mention this because it is possible
  
  to share a dial-up connection. Obviously speeds are pretty slow but it's better than waiting.
mike_kaiser_gw
I disagree with Zep, there's no reason you couldn't use a wireless LAN to communicate with the printer but setting it up might not be easy.
- What is the manufacturer and model number of the printer?
- How many computers need to share this printer? What operating system does each have installed?
- Do each of these computer(s) have a wireless network adapter or have a wired network adapter?
- If the later, can the router be place in close enough proximity to the computer(s) to run a cable between the router and computer(s)?
- What manufacturer and model number of router? Usually that information is on a tag on the bottom.
- If you have multiple computers and a dial-up connection I'm guessing you take turns connecting to the Internet? I mention this because it is possible
  
  to share a dial-up connection. Obviously speeds are pretty slow but it's better than waiting.
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That is what I've already done. It's what I mean when I said I didn't find any help from help and support. I try to get this fixed, get frustrated and shut down. When I try again, I've forgotten what I've done, so I do it again. I've done all those steps many times. I'm surprised that getting a router to work, setting up the home network, has been so difficult. Many pages of instructions printed out, many hand written, which is difficult for me. Have laptop accessing internet, which is good. Am just trying to share the printer that is plugged into home computer with XP. If this is not possible, I wish someone would tell me and I can go on to something else. I have no formal training on computers. Still a lot I see on here that I have no idea what is it, what it does, but I can read it. Like reading the "services" in control panel. I've been trying to get this to work for several weeks. I just noticed in sharing and network, that it only shows the laptop(Vista) router and internet. Then I hit "map network" and did not get the home (XP) computer to show. Have used or performed all steps shown in Vista to get this to work and it does not. HP website states that my old psc 950 driver is already installed onto Vista. I don't know what to do next. I'm frazzled. Thanks bob414 for the suggestion.
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some links for reference Sharing your printer wirelessly Share Files and Printers between Windows 7 and XP this is what got mine working properly, I found the info on the windows 7 forums (Jimbo45) after I did this it worked great. Just be sure to put the name of your actual machines and names in there rather than what he is using as an example. "to share Printers attached to XP computers with either X-64 or X-32 versions of Windows 7 is SIMPLE. These instructions are for the Printer attached to the XP machine (but works in reverse as well). ("Stand alone" Network printers can be done slightly similarly BTW). assume the computers are call XPMACHINE and W7MACHINE. 1) Ensure Printer on XP machine is shared - assume it's called SHAREDPRINTER. 2) On the Network Browsing on your Windows 7 machine ensure you can "See" the Printer share. Now on the Windows 7 machine do the following (doesn't matter if it's X-86 or x-64). 3) Control Panel==> add LOCAL (Yes LOCAL) printer. I know it's on a Network but hold your horses -- what we are actually doing is "Poodlefaking" the Windows 7 machine into thinking it's running the printer. 4) Create NEW port==>Local port 5) Portname is \\XPMACHINE\SHAREDPRINTER 6) Now Windows 7 will load a driver and you'll be able to print on the XP machine. Simple (For a "Network stand alone printer") at 4) chose TCPIP port and at 5) enter the IP address. If the printer is on the Windows 7 machine and you want to print on the XP machine then do the same instructions on the XP machine -- port name in this case will be \\W7MACHINE\SHAREDPRINTER Here is a link that might be useful: windows 7 forum
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mike_kaiser_gw
I disagree with Zep, there's no reason you couldn't use a wireless LAN to communicate with the printer but setting it up might not be easy.
- What is the manufacturer and model number of the printer?
- How many computers need to share this printer? What operating system does each have installed?
- Do each of these computer(s) have a wireless network adapter or have a wired network adapter?
- If the later, can the router be place in close enough proximity to the computer(s) to run a cable between the router and computer(s)?
- What manufacturer and model number of router? Usually that information is on a tag on the bottom.
- If you have multiple computers and a dial-up connection I'm guessing you take turns connecting to the Internet? I mention this because it is possible
  
  to share a dial-up connection. Obviously speeds are pretty slow but it's better than waiting.
zep516
13 years ago
You need a broadband internet connection for wireless printer setup.

A broadband Internet connection is a high-speed Internet connection in contrast to a dial-up connection, which is slower and not powerful enough to support a wireless network. Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) and cable are two of the most common broadband connections.
susanjn
13 years ago
So you are saying a wireless printer cannot be used in a LAN with no outside connection?
PKponder TX Z7B
13 years ago
I think that you can set it up as an IP printer with the wireless router. You'll just need to set up a network first.

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