wireless printer question

My wife wants to know if she can use her laptop and
be able to print wireless. The laptop is connected into the
wireless router. She wants to use a different printer
specifically with one program on her laptop.

Several companies make USB wireless printer adapters.
Ambicom make a wireless printer kit. One unit (looks
similar to a USB thumb drive) connects to the printer
USB port (small square connector). The other unit
looks like a USB thumb drive and I think would connect
to a USB port on her laptop.

Has anyone used this or a similar device(s)? Am I correct
in how I think they would be setup?

Any help would be appreciated,

Terry
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On Mon, 6 Jun 2005 21:17:21 -0700, "Terry Brown" <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>She wants to use a different printer
>specifically with one program on her laptop.

You need to provide more information on your setup. Is the printer she
wants to reach already installed on your network? How? To another PC,
or to some other device?

John Jones, Detroit

Think of it this way as my previous explaination wasn't
too clear.

She wants to use her laptop and have a wireless printer
dedicated to her laptop. When she wants to print
something it will be printed by the dedicated wireless
printer. It will be totally seperate from the household
network. (She uses her laptop with a dress pattern program and she wants to
use a printer whose ink
cartiages are a bit cheaper than the newer, better
printer we currently have on the network here in the
house)

I thought the Ambicom WP Kit found at:

http://ambicom.com/products/wp-kit/wp-kit.html

would do the trick. One adapter into her laptop
USB plug and the other in the printers port. That
way she could select this printer as her default printer.
When she printed anything it would go directly to the
wireless printer.

As far as any other information, the printer is a Lexmark
515 and the laptop is running XP Home. Anything else?

Thanks for the reply and help,

Terry
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"John Jones" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> On Mon, 6 Jun 2005 21:17:21 -0700, "Terry Brown" <(E-Mail Removed)>
> wrote:
>
>>She wants to use a different printer
>>specifically with one program on her laptop.
>
> You need to provide more information on your setup. Is the printer she
> wants to reach already installed on your network? How? To another PC,
> or to some other device?
>
> John Jones, Detroit

Taking a moment's reflection, Terry Brown mused:
|
| http://ambicom.com/products/wp-kit/wp-kit.html

For less money you could probably find a simple network printer
device to plug into your router, and then plug the printer into it.
That way everyone on the network could access the printer if needed.

For example ...

http://www.overstock.com/cgi-bin/d2....rod_id=1099680












Taking a moment's reflection, Terry Brown mused:
|
| Think of it this way as my previous explaination wasn't
| too clear.
|
| She wants to use her laptop and have a wireless printer
| dedicated to her laptop. When she wants to print
| something it will be printed by the dedicated wireless
| printer. It will be totally seperate from the household
| network. (She uses her laptop with a dress pattern program and she
| wants to use a printer whose ink
| cartiages are a bit cheaper than the newer, better
| printer we currently have on the network here in the
| house)
|
| I thought the Ambicom WP Kit found at:
|
| http://ambicom.com/products/wp-kit/wp-kit.html
|
| would do the trick. One adapter into her laptop
| USB plug and the other in the printers port. That
| way she could select this printer as her default printer.
| When she printed anything it would go directly to the
| wireless printer.
|
| As far as any other information, the printer is a Lexmark
| 515 and the laptop is running XP Home. Anything else?
|
| Thanks for the reply and help,
|
| Terry
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| "John Jones" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
| news:(E-Mail Removed)...
|| On Mon, 6 Jun 2005 21:17:21 -0700, "Terry Brown"
|| <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
||
||| She wants to use a different printer
||| specifically with one program on her laptop.
||
|| You need to provide more information on your setup. Is the printer
|| she wants to reach already installed on your network? How? To
|| another PC, or to some other device?
||
|| John Jones, Detroit

I assume you have another printer connected to a computer that's wired to
the router. You could connect a second printer to that same computer, share
it, and add it to the laptop as a network printer. It could be set as her
default printer.
Only drawback is that the wired computer needs to be on for her to access
"her" printer. Other wise you could buy a print server that connects to the
router directly and "her" printer would be plugged into the print server.


"Terry Brown" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:md9pe.15810$(E-Mail Removed)...
> My wife wants to know if she can use her laptop and
> be able to print wireless. The laptop is connected into the
> wireless router. She wants to use a different printer
> specifically with one program on her laptop.
>
> Several companies make USB wireless printer adapters.
> Ambicom make a wireless printer kit. One unit (looks
> similar to a USB thumb drive) connects to the printer
> USB port (small square connector). The other unit
> looks like a USB thumb drive and I think would connect
> to a USB port on her laptop.
>
> Has anyone used this or a similar device(s)? Am I correct
> in how I think they would be setup?
>
> Any help would be appreciated,
>
> Terry
> (E-Mail Removed)
>
>
>
>

Some printers have built in wifi print server, few HP's for sure.
Some routers have USB printer port, e.g. Draytek Vigor 2600G.
Regards,
Martin

On Tue, 7 Jun 2005 08:25:47 -0700, "Terry Brown" <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>She wants to use her laptop and have a wireless printer
>dedicated to her laptop. When she wants to print
>something it will be printed by the dedicated wireless
>printer. It will be totally seperate from the household
>network.

Since you already have a wireless router installed, why not simply use
a wireless print server that is compatible with the printer she wants
to use? No need to buy anything additional for her laptop, since it
already has some kind of wireless "NIC" to talk to your router.

John Jones, Detroit