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Final Holdout, the Printer, Cuts the
Cord
By THOMAS J. FITZGERALD
Published: January 22, 2004
OR those who have savored
the freedom of wireless
networks, whether at home, at
the office or in an Internet cafe,
wires and cables may seem like
obsolete relics from the earliest
days of personal computing. But
even networked homes usually
maintain one tether to the past:
the printer cable.
It does not have to be that way.
Today you can not only print
wirelessly from the living room
sofa or the kitchen table, but also
wirelessly share a single printer
among several computers. That
way, the printer can be stored
anywhere in the house -
centrally located for convenient
access, or tucked out of sight. As
a bonus, most of the options for
wireless printing, from print
servers to Bluetooth modules to
rinters with Wi-Fi technology
already built in, are relatively
easy to set up.
If you already have a home
network based on a Wi-Fi
router, or access point,
incorporating a printer is a
matter of only a few steps. Some
users forget that wireless routers
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