How do i setup my printer on a wireless network. printer does not have bluetooth or anything like that. I know it can be done but cant figure it out. any tips or how to advise would help.

Well Walkon, I could use some more information such as what OS you are using on your network & is your printer network ready?

In general here’s what you want to do:

Best choice – use a network ready printer. This way all you do is plug your printer into your router (have your router assign a permanent IP address), install printer drivers on your computers and point them to the printers IP address.

If your printer is not network ready you could buy a printer server devise. You would plug your printer into the print server and then you could address the printer by way of an IP address.  I have not used a print server in a few years but going back two or three years,  I did not find them very reliable but I would think they have fixed most of those issues by now.

The cheapest way to go is connect the printer right to one of your computers and share it with the network. There are a few drawbacks to this however.

1. You need to keep the computer that the printer is connected to, on 24/7 (this is not a bad thing, I never turn off my desktop computers, only my laptops) the reason being, if you are downstairs and send the print job to your computer upstairs,  you’ll need to run upstairs to boot up the computer before you can use it’s printer.

2. You could bog down the computer the printer is connected to depending on the size of your print job and how much ram your printer has;  if no one is on that computer it’s not a issue.

Hope this helped! If you would like you could PM me and I’ll try and walk you through it.