networking a printer

[clydeserani]

Hi people.

Any advice welcome on how i can network my non wireless printer so that all the pcs in my home can have access to it. We have 3 pcs, all wireless enabled and a wireless router. I believe I may be able to attach it to my router or am I totally wrong

thanks in anticipation.
Claire.x

[Huderon]

You can get a wireless printer server which plugs into your router. You plug the router into the server and away you go ... at least that's the theory ! I haven't tried one so can't say if they work or how difficult they are to set up, though I'm sure someone will be along shortly with a few recommendations

[Huderon]

oops ... I'm over tired ... plug the server into the router and the printer into the server is what I'd meant to say.

[ChuckFickens]

As Huderon says, you can get both wired and wireless print servers. wired is, of course, more reliable and as your probably not going to be wanting to move the printer about the best option.

http://shop.ebay.co.uk/?_from=R40&_trksid=m38. l1313&_nkw=print+server&_sacat=See-All-Categor ies

[ChuckFickens]

OH and they are pretty easy to setup

Make sure you give it a static IP address in the same range as you home network.

Add a printer in the control panel, select local printer but take a tick out of search for printers, then on the next page select create new port and select tcp/ip port. Next page type the IP address of the printer. now you will get a normal add driver window, select your printer and away you go (or click have disk and point it towards the driver disk if your printers not listed)

[beso]

You don't need anything fancy. Just plug it directly into one of the computers and share it.

[VHG]

>You don't need anything fancy. Just plug it directly
>into one of the computers and share it.

While this is true (I do this in my house) note that the PC that has the printer plugged into it has to be switched on for the other person to print to it.

This can be a bit of a pain, as if that PC if off you have to power it up and logon to it before you can print to the printer.