[Printer] Can wireless routers allow you to connect to wireless printers

[CleanSlate]

Can wireless routers allow you to connect to wireless printers when you are out of the range of the wireless printer but the router isn't out of range of the printer and you are only in range of the router?

Like adding a hop to a wireless network?

I've never had a wireless printer before and everything I have read makes me unsure about this capability.

 

[dashpuppy]

Can wireless routers allow you to connect to wireless printers when you are out of the range of the wireless printer but the router isn't out of range of the printer and you are only in range of the router?

Like adding a hop to a wireless network?

I've never had a wireless printer before and everything I have read makes me unsure about this capability.

When setting one up, you have to be in range, your printer actually connects to your wireless router just like a computer does, ie SSID & password.

 

[koolaidkitten]

You don't really talk to the printer directly, you talk to the router which then forwards the info to your printer.
Your printer only needs to be in range of the router.

 

[CleanSlate]

I figured that was the way it was koolaidkitten, Thanks.