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What do I need to hook up Desktop and Notebook to printer

Jun 3, 2005 12:09AM PDT

Hello,

I am relatively inexperienced with computers. I would like to hook up my wife's laptop (Dell Inspiron 6000) to our printer which is now hooked to our PC (HP) by a USB. We have a wireless router so she can access our DSL. Does anyone have suggestions on what we need so she can have wireless access to the printer? How do we do it? Thanks!

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Try...
Jun 3, 2005 12:12AM PDT
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or a hardware solution...
Jun 3, 2005 12:38AM PDT

a small print server for $20 less (after a $10 rebate - gawd I hate those rebates) ...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16833164111

Plug this litte device into another of the wired ports of the router (which I presume is near your desktop computer and only the laptop connects to it wirelessly...) and then swap the USB printer connection from the desktop to this device. After you run the setup program from the CD to activate the device, you just go through the "add printer" routine on each of your computers (illustrated directions included in the package) to set up the printer driver. From then on, the only requirement is that the printer is turned on - because the printer is no longer connected to your desktop computer, the desktop computer doesn't have to be turned on for the printer to accessed by the laptop.

dw

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(NT) (NT) Thanks
Jun 3, 2005 1:00AM PDT