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Question

Wifi printer and cloud printing Dell V313W

Oct 6, 2013 3:16AM PDT

Hi all. I am receiving a Dell V313W tomorrow. I would like to know if I can print to it from a tablet at a friends house on one network (the printer being at my house on another wifi network). I am using Win XP with services Pack 3.

Many thanks

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Unsure.
Oct 6, 2013 3:20AM PDT

I'm going to write no you can't. Here's a simple way to get around all the printer and network issues. Print such to a PDF and then email the PDF to the friend to print out.
Bob

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Cloud printing
Oct 6, 2013 3:53AM PDT

Thanks for your reply, R.Profit. Happy So what is cloud printing then? I honestly don't know exactly but from what I understand it allows you to send a file to a cloud account such as gmail, which I have, and the printer will automatically print it instantly. May be I am wrong - or am I correct and it is just that my printer doesn't support cloud printing. I don't know.

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This is why I offered a work around.
Oct 6, 2013 4:54AM PDT

Since you can't set it up and am unsure about it all I offered a sure fire way to get printing.
Bob

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PS. User reviews are not good.
Oct 6, 2013 5:03AM PDT