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hvaux · Neighbor / Sr. Member Joined: 21 Mar 2009 Posts: 8

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the4halls · Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2009 2:09 pm Post subject:

Hi, do you know if I can set up a older printer (HP laser) to print wirelessly? It has a parallel port but that is all.
Thanks
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hvaux · Neighbor / Sr. Member Joined: 21 Mar 2009 Posts: 8

If you have another PC that is connected to a router....you can accomplish what you want via printer sharing...it's done all of the time...and works great!

The downside: the PC that the printer is connected to..must always be powered on.

or you can get a print server that connects to your router

Give me a call and we can work through it.

Or, here's a link that I found:
http://askbobrankin.com/wireless_printing.html
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the4halls · Posted: Tue Dec 08, 2009 10:14 am Post subject:

Thank you, that worked fine. I used an old laptop that has a wireless B card in it and set the printer up to share. Since we only print once in a while I will keep the laptop on standby and wake it up when I need to print. I will wake it remotely if the card supports wake-on-lan.

Thanks again.
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