Networking a printer

[Team Obi Juan]

Can you do this without hooking the printer up to a computer?

Scenario:

Laptop in living room
Printer in another room, hooked up via ethernet to my wireless/wired router
Send the printjob over wireless to the printer and have it print.

What do I need to do to make this work? I don't want to have an "office" computer so-to-speak. I have one, but i don't want to have to leave it on since lappy computing is all I do nowadays.

Thanks in advance

 

[tiraides]

If your printer has an Ethernet port, then it could be possible.
There are also various wireless print servers (like this one) that would allow you to connect your printer onto your network.

All you would have to do then is install the printer's drivers/software onto the laptop... but you will have to attach the printer to the laptop (at first) in order for the drivers to be properly set up. You would then have to follow the instructions given by the printer's/print server's manual in order to ensure that everything runs properly.

 

[msny]

You can buy a print server, and that would work.
Here is an alternative, if your looking for a printer.

I bought this printer:

http://www.brother-usa.com/printer/modeldetail.aspx?ProductID=HL2070N

It has the print server already built into it. All you do is plug
in your cat5 cable from the printer to your router and you
have a "peer to peer" network. Any computer on the network with an
installed driver can print to it. It uses your router rather then a host
machine.

Look for a printer with this feature and your golden, otherwise you will need
that print server mentioned.