Request courtesy of rsf: How do I connect to a wireless printer to a wireless network?
I just bought a Dell 966 wireless printer (has the wireless ethernet card installed). I have a wireless network setup in my house. I have the wireless router hooked up to one computer and we have one other computer and two laptops that we hook into the network. I don’t know how to connect all the other computers to the printer. I went into “control panel”, “printers”, “add printer”, “browse”, but the network nor the printer do not show. Can anyone help me and tell me what I’m doing wrong. Thanks! (p.s. when I went through the printer install I did choose to hook it up through the network, with our network key, etc.)
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Answer by Mictlan_KISS
It needs to have a Wireless Print Server;
Or, Make the Printer a Shared Item on the Network.
The trick will be getting the Printer to be “seen” by the Other PCs.
Providing the Printer is shared, one way to do it is to make the PC it is connected to into the Printer server, however this will chew up resources for the PC.
My Suspicion is that since the DELL 966 is a wireless printer, then the Software it should have will have options to use the wireless network. Once Shared, it will be like a Shared file folder, or a Shared resource, and it should be visible. Usually the big trick is that right click option set … if it has the right elements then connecting from another PC will be just a matter of adding a printer.
If that fails, try Dell Support.
OR, Check out the Linksys Print Servers that are wireless, these will make the printer operate independently, and will be visible to all PCs and will not impact any PC on your network
Answer by defragmentedbrain
http://supportapj.dell.com/support/index.aspx?c=au&l=en&s=dhs
Answer by EdrickV
I would assume that you would have to install the software from the CD onto each computer. The computers might need file and printer sharing installed too. (Note that you’ll need Win2k or XP to use it this way.)
If the printer’s wireless configuration included a workgroup setting, you should make sure all the computers and the printer are in the same workgroup, otherwise they won’t see eachother. Other then that, I’m not really sure what the problem is. (I’m going to assume from the “browse” comment that you weren’t trying to install it as a local printer on the other computers, this thing seems to have a built-in print server, probably running embedded Linux.)
If all else fails, try contacting Dell tech support. (As a workaround you could hook it up to a computer via USB and set it up as a shared printer that way. Would be a waste of the wireless card though and would require said computer to be on in order to print from another computer.)
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