With wireless networks and access points springing up like mushrooms, wireless network printing is becoming an increasing viable option. For those who already have wired networks, wireless printing makes sense – especially if there is at least one notebook with wireless connection. It also makes sense for those who don’t have wired network and don’t want to spend money and time putting cables through walls.

If you have only wired network, you’ll need to add an access point. Once your notebook has wireless access to the network, you can print to any printer on the network just as if you were connected by cable. Creating a wireless network from scratch requires getting an access point, adding wireless cards to those computers without wireless component, and setting up the wireless connections. You then have several choices for connecting the printer.

• Connect a network printer to hub or switch that’s connected to or part of the access point.
• Connect a non-network printer to the hub or switch using a print server.
• Also canuse Windows to share a printer that connected to one of the computers.
• Purchase printer with built-in wireless support
• Plug any printer into a wireless print server to communicate with the access point wirelessly.

Whichever way you chooce, the printer will work just as it would on a wired network.