How to Network A Printer Wireless

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A printer for a network is much different then setting up one computer. On a single machine you simply attach a printer to the 'USB port' or 'parallel port'. However, for a network you have a dedicated machine (called a 'print server') that collects print jobs from any machine on the network, holds that job until a specified printer is ready (known as 'spooling'), and then feeds it to that printer.
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Printing in this way has a number of advantages. A major one is that it is far, far easier to administer - one or several central print servers are simpler for the IT team to look after than tens, hundreds or even thousands of different printers connected to and controlled by individual PCs all scattered around the building. Another advantage is that it increases the print options available - any user can send their print job to any selected printer (on the network), get back to work, then pick up the printed output later. They are no longer limited to the single printer directly attached to their PC. How to Network a Printer Wireless has definitely made life a little easier.

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Walk into any IT department in the country and ask them what their biggest user complaints are. I guarantee two of the TOP complaints will be "email's not working!" and "printing's slow/not working!"

Printing can be an IT support nightmare. Many businesses do it with one of the various flavors of Windows Server Edition, and very often this is at the root of the problem...
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Firstly, there are all of the usual Windows issues. Instability, low up times, unexplainable crashes that need a reformat and reinstall to 'fix', virus susceptibility, poor security and, not least, the high cost of licenses, CALs, support etc. But, more than this, using it to control printers brings loads more! Print jobs get lost or stuck; printers print out gibberish, scalability is dreadful forcing an unnaturally high ratio of servers to printers. And sometimes, perhaps just to keep us on our toes, it just stops printing and needs a reboot.

However, what I find even more worrying is that using Windows as a print server also drives you towards, or locks you further into, a Windows-only infrastructure. Try serving Macintosh or UNIX workstations from a Windows print server - it 'can' be done, but it's not easy, it's slow and it's even more unreliable.
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