Wireless printers

[kneifl]

Is there a way to set up more than one wireless printer in a household? I'm having a hard time doing it. When I try to setup and connect the second one it does not want to let me connect with the computers because there will be multiple access points. Anyone have a solution here? Thanks in advance.

kneifl

 

[The Boys]

Is there a way to set up more than one wireless printer in a household? I'm having a hard time doing it. When I try to setup and connect the second one it does not want to let me connect with the computers because there will be multiple access points. Anyone have a solution here? Thanks in advance.

kneifl

Maybe you'll need 2 routers?

 

[kneifl]

Maybe you'll need 2 routers?

Actually, there is a way to do it with just one router. I called a tech place today to see if it was even possible. They said yes and wanted to charge me $125 to have someone come out and do it for me. No thanks....

kneifl

 

[The Boys]

Actually, there is a way to do it with just one router. I called a tech place today to see if it was even possible. They said yes and wanted to charge me $125 to have someone come out and do it for me. No thanks....

kneifl

Maybe a spliter of some type?

 

[Mr. Poon]

Actually, there is a way to do it with just one router. I called a tech place today to see if it was even possible. They said yes and wanted to charge me $125 to have someone come out and do it for me. No thanks....

kneifl

Check out craigslist, might be able to find someone willing to do it cheaper on there.


Mr. Poon

 

[ppabart]

Check out craigslist, might be able to find someone willing to do it cheaper on there.


Mr. Poon

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[Old School]

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[Mr. Poon]

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[Julene]

This is possible, but you haven't provided much info. What operating system are you using? What kind of printers? Which router?

 

[bsucards]

This is possible, but you haven't provided much info. What operating system are you using? What kind of printers? Which router?

Julene is right, need more information? Are both printers getting an ip address? Do you know how to go into your router/gateway to see the information?

:shrug:

 

[kneifl]

Looks like I have solved the problem halfway. I am using three computers a Mac with a version 10.7.5 a Mac with a version 10.8.2 and an HP laptop with Windows 7.

Here is what I did. I went ahead and plugged both printers (a color and a B&W) into my airport extreme. Next, I went and enabled printer sharing through the Macs.

Now both Macs can print fine on either printer. This is great, but it doesn't solve my problem. I went ahead and downloaded bonjour for windows so I could share between all of my computers. I set it up correctly just like it told me to do, however I get error messages when I try to print from the PC to the color printer. Maybe I need to delete Windows bonjour and try it again :cursin:

kneifl

 

[marine]

I'm not a mac guy, so i don't know if this will apply, but if you can get a router that will put out in 2g and 5g and you can put a printer on each and you will be able to see them both from your laptops.

 

[bsucards]

Looks like I have solved the problem halfway. I am using three computers a Mac with a version 10.7.5 a Mac with a version 10.8.2 and an HP laptop with Windows 7.

Here is what I did. I went ahead and plugged both printers (a color and a B&W) into my airport extreme. Next, I went and enabled printer sharing through the Macs.

Now both Macs can print fine on either printer. This is great, but it doesn't solve my problem. I went ahead and downloaded bonjour for windows so I could share between all of my computers. I set it up correctly just like it told me to do, however I get error messages when I try to print from the PC to the color printer. Maybe I need to delete Windows bonjour and try it again :cursin:

kneifl

are you plugging your printers into the router directly? Most "wireless" printers have a wifi card like a laptop in them that you configure.

 

[marine]

are you plugging your printers into the router directly? Most "wireless" printers have a wifi card like a laptop in them that you configure.

This is true. With the exception being a lot of the wifi printers that most of us use don't mesh well with some of the newer routers out on the market now.

The newer N band routers are able to broadcast out a 5Ghz signal and have a WPA2 security key - the wifi printers don't have the capability to do WPA2 so you have to actually plug them in to the router and use the router's config software to set it up. Which sucks, because all it does is just slow down the process when you print something.

Cisco and some of the other router manufacturers shit the bed with this one and should have waited for the printer business to catch up a bit with this.

 

[kneifl]

Hey guys,

I had the one configured like a "wireless printer" at first and I was not plugging it into any router. It worked on all three computers like a wireless printer should. The problem was when I tried to do this with the second printer I configured it with the WPS button and tried to set it up wireless as well. It was getting two different access points (as it would I guess) but didn't know which one to connect to, so this wouldn't work. I could not set them up both as wireless printers because of this.

I went ahead and plugged both of the printers into the airport extreme. One works fine on all of the computers. The other works fine on just the macs and I need it to work on the PC as well, but it won't. Did some research on this and Windows 7 doesn't work to well with Bonjour for Windows PC. Still having problems getting the color printer hooked up to PC, everything else works fine. This wouldn't be a problem for me, but my wife is a realtor and needs to print in color sometimes so she's pissed at me for not being able to set this up properly. I tell her she should learn how to use a mac Oh well!

kneifl

 

[marine]

You know you could always just use one printer, and if you want to print in black and white just go into the print options for that document and have it print b&w

 

[kneifl]

You know you could always just use one printer, and if you want to print in black and white just go into the print options for that document and have it print b&w

Yep, I know I could do that. I guess I just prefer to do it with 2 printers. The BW printer is a Brother 7840W and the Canon is an MX432. I do a lot of bulk printing with the Brother and if I did this with the Canon I think I would be paying for a lot of ink.

kneifl

 

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