Do you have a wireless printer?

[yoda313]

So do you have one of the newer crops of wireless enabled printers? Or do you have a wireless print server? Or do you simply print through your wifi/powerline/lan network?

I recently acquired the lexmark x4530. It is a good printer and setup was quite easy. I simply entered my wep password and it was on the network. I installed the software on my xp and vista pcs and both can print to it just fine. In fact the lexmark is not even physically connected to the xp machine which is what is physically next to (ie in the same room).

So do you have a wireless enabled printer?

[gadgetguy]

I have several printers. 2 connected by USB, one by Parallel cable, and one network connected laser printer. None of them wireless.

[Baldrick]

No my printer is non-networked and is connected via a physical cable.

Sometimes I would like a network printer so I could easily print from my laptops without booting up the my main mother computer....

[JohnnyMalaria]

Sorta. I have Brother MFD connected to a router via ethernet and the router is hooked up to the WLAN. So I can sit in my living room and print to the printer in the office over the garage.

[yoda313]

@baldrick - maybe its time to invest in a wireless print server??? Although these days a new wireless printer might be cheaper (of course you could always try buying a used wireless print server....)

[t0nee1]

Yeah ,I have a wireless Lexmark printer ,but it's hooked up via usb for now..Been meaning to hook it up to my network...I may just do that, thanks to this thread... 8)

[yoda313]

@t0nee1 - it couldn't be easier. Just go through the setup wizard and plug in your Wep or WPA password and your on the network. You just need to make sure you have the software and drivers installed on your remote computers of course

[Xylob the Destroyer]

Other.
We used to use our juke-box PC as a print server.
Then we moved to a different house and that just won't work anymore.
Now we have a USB 'splitter' with an icon on each PC - click the taskbar icon to take control of the printer.

[lordsmurf]

No my printer is non-networked and is connected via a physical cable.
Sometimes I would like a network printer so I could easily print from my laptops without booting up the my main mother computer....

I have multiple USB cables, and printer drivers on each system. Just unplug and re-plug. 8)

[redwudz]

I have a networked HP all-in-one printer. (Printer/scanner/copier) I also access it through my wireless router from my laptop.

[Constant Gardener]

The house is wired with cat-5E, so the printers use that, except for the color squirter which connects to a host via USB. Portable stuff connects wirelessly.

[yoda313]

I can't believe this - 7 people voted they don't have a printer.

Isn't it some law that you have to have a printer if you own a computer?????

[Number Six]

I can't believe this - 7 people voted they don't have a printer.

Isn't it some law that you have to have a printer if you own a computer?????

PLEASE DO NOT give Congress any ideas! :P

[yoda313]

@number six - I don't mean THAT kind of law! I just mean one of those universal constants that have to be obeyed before stars start flying out of their orbits or that destruction of the universe stuff doc brown mentioned in Back to the Future 2.......

[Number Six]

@number six - I don't mean THAT kind of law! I just mean one of those universal constants that have to be obeyed before stars start flying out of their orbits or that destruction of the universe stuff doc brown mentioned in Back to the Future 2.......

- that is why I used the :P symbol -

Your next poll should ask how many people have monitors - I bet you will get some who will say no

[yoda313]

@numbersix - that isn't entirely fair. This poll is specifically asking if you have a "wireless" printer. I just threw in the "don't have a printer" option as bait.

Though who knows maybe some people still have those punch card computers from the 50's that didn't have monitors

[Number Six]

@numbersix - that isn't entirely fair. This poll is specifically asking if you have a "wireless" printer. I just threw in the "don't have a printer" option as bait.

Though who knows maybe some people still have those punch card computers from the 50's that didn't have monitors

Actually - where I work, we have computers in the field that do not have monitors attached them. When they stop doing what they are supposed to do, all we can do is a hard reboot - and if that does not work, then it gets replaced. In the early days - when they were first installed - we sometimes carried out a 13" CRT monitor to connect to them to see what was going on.

[JohnnyMalaria]

Though who knows maybe some people still have those punch card computers from the 50's that didn't have monitors

The 50's? - you're showing your (lack of) age. In high school in 1980 we had a teletypewriter, a 300 baud modem with big rubber cups and had to write our programs on paper, send them to the local polytechnic to be entered, wait a week and then run the program. They'd send back the wad of punch cards. If there was an error/bug when you came to try it, you had to resubmit. Brilliant.

[yoda313]

@Johnnymalaria - umm..... wasn't the commodore 64 before 1980??? Didn't that have a monitor????? There had to be something between the 50's and 1980 that resembled a modern pc setup...

Wasn't the first ibm and the first mac back in the early 80's? There had to be something before then.....

[redwudz]

Though this is probably creeping further off topic, I have two computers without monitors, KB or mouse. I access them over the LAN and use the remote software to view and control them, Ultra VNC at the moment.

C64 used a analog monitor or a TV set if you had the proper modulator. I still have a couple of the Commodore analog monitors. They still work fine for analog video.

C64 was released in 1982 for a price of $595US. (I bought one): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_64

[FulciLives]

No my printer is non-networked and is connected via a physical cable

I have one of those (fairly cheap) "all-in-one" Epson printer/scanner jobs. It is an Epson Stylus CX3810 and is a great scanner but lately I'm not happy with the printing. I think my last Epson (Stylus Color 740i) was better. I even had a cheap Lexmark for a bit that was a better printer.

I'm really fed up with color inkjet printers. Seems my current Epson and a HP my aunt bought recently both do the same thing ... they can't align properly. No matter how you clean them or do the alignment thing you can see faint "white" lines through the image like the heads aren't lining up just right. So freakin' annoying! I'd love to try a color laser printer but although they have come down in price I just don't have the money these days ... sigh.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

P.S.
My CX3810 is hooked up via USB 2.0

[valvehead]

For a while I had been printing on my HP DeskJet 6122 by sharing it on my desktop PC (USB connection). I use my Macbook Pro most of the time. Printing while in OS X works well, but the generic Bonjour driver doesn't access all of the printer functions.

Now I have a HP LaserJet P2055dn. It's connected directly to the network (wired Ethernet) with a static IP. It's a dream to work with. All of the settings can be accessed through a web browser. I got this printer because I rarely print in color and needed a printer with high resolution for PCB and CAD drawings.

[träskmannen]

Yes, but I don't use that feature. I have it connected to the wired network anyway.

[waheed]

No, but my printer is on the network so I can print wireless through the WiFi connection.

[MeDiCo_BrUjO]

Yes, but I don't use that feature. I have it connected to the wired network anyway.

Ditto.

I have a bluetooth printer but I use it with the wired network.

[gadgetguy]

No my printer is non-networked and is connected via a physical cable

I have one of those (fairly cheap) "all-in-one" Epson printer/scanner jobs. It is an Epson Stylus CX3810 and is a great scanner but lately I'm not happy with the printing. I think my last Epson (Stylus Color 740i) was better. I even had a cheap Lexmark for a bit that was a better printer.

I'm really fed up with color inkjet printers. Seems my current Epson and a HP my aunt bought recently both do the same thing ... they can't align properly. No matter how you clean them or do the alignment thing you can see faint "white" lines through the image like the heads aren't lining up just right. So freakin' annoying! I'd love to try a color laser printer but although they have come down in price I just don't have the money these days ... sigh.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

P.S.
My CX3810 is hooked up via USB 2.0

Try cleaning the ink cartridge manually using a cotton swab soaked in water.


I might add that I can print to any of my printers from my laptop wirelessly.

[MeDiCo_BrUjO]

@Johnnymalaria - umm..... wasn't the commodore 64 before 1980??? Didn't that have a monitor????? There had to be something between the 50's and 1980 that resembled a modern pc setup...

Wasn't the first ibm and the first mac back in the early 80's? There had to be something before then.....

I (well... my mom) purchased a brand new commodore 64 for me in 1983. It was an arm and a leg then and it only came with the keyboard (the keyboard had the whole computer in it in those days) and a big as life Floppy Drive on the side. I plugged it to my TV and I had to unplug/replug the TV/COMPUTER adapter it had in the back of the TV in order to switch it to play with the ATARI.

[Epicurus8a]

No but I have a wireless print server

http://www.netgear.com/Products/PrintServers/WiredPrintServers/PS121.aspx

It works okay for simple pages, but chokes on complicated stuff. Does anyone know of something better?