How to link a computer to a printer wirelessly.? -

I am trying to connect my home computers to my printer wirelessly. I have seen it done somewhere but I just don t know how they did it. Can someone tell me what type of device(s) I need and how to connect. I have more than one computer on my network but only one is currently connected to the printer.

Wireless Should Be on on the printer and Check if the printer Have a Valid Ip Address May Be Starting with 192.168 by printing a Network Test page... In the main computer where the printer is installed, just go to the Printer folder inside of Control Panel. Right click your All in one printer and then Click Sharing. Click on Share this printer in the window that opens and then hit OK. Get the IP address of your computer, go to Start, Run, type quot;cmdquot; enter, type quot;ipconfigquot; enter. Write down where it says quot;Local Area Connectionquot; IP address: quot;numbers with dotsquot;. After this, move to the computer without a printer. In the other computer, go to Start, Run, type quot;\\ipaddress\quot; where ipaddress are the numbers of the 1st computer. When a windows opens asking for a user name and password input those credentials from your computer. If it doesn t ask it will be even better. Now with this command you will open a folder and the printer will be there. Double click the printer and now the 2nd computer will be able to use it. BTW, both computers have to be in the same WORKGROUP. to check this: Right click My Computer icon on the desktop, go to properties, Computer name tab. There you can see the WORKGROUP name and even change it.

On the computer with the printer goto printers and right click on the printer you want to share and give it a share name. Then on each of the other computers, goto start-gt;printers; click on add printer and slect network printer and give the path \\desktoppc\printer8 and enter. Et voila!

Since you want to connect wirelessly, there are a couple of standards to consider; bluetooth wireless, or 802.11g wireless. Hewlett packard sells a wireless printer hub to connect to your printer (small device that connects to the usb port on the printer) and then small usb device that connects to your laptop or desktop. You then configure the device via http: (browser). You ll need to create your encryption key to access your present wireless network. (This connetion assumes that you already have a WAP(wireless access point)). The small usb device that connects to your laptop can only be conneted to any of your wireless devices, depending on which one you choose to print from. The price of the kit ranges from $69-$120. or Alternately, if you have a broadband router that doesn t have a wireless router built in, then you can replace it with one. Then you would need a wireless printer device on your printer which would allow you to connect to your broadband router/WAP. ( All configurations assumes that you already have the information; SSID, WEP, NETWORK KEY.)

if you want to be able to print from any computer even when the computer attched to the printer is turned off, you will need a wireless print server. (I assume you have a wireless router). Otherwise you can just share the printer. In windows go start/control panel/printers. Right-click your printer icon and you will see option for sharing. This printer will now be visible on your network and can be selected for printing.

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you can make a network by going to start/my networks/start home network... go through the steps and do this on each cpu. Then make sure the firewall doesn t block it by using ip address for network.