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Final Holdout, the Printer, Cuts the Cord
Published: January 22, 2004
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To use the printer from another
Windows XP computer, go to
Printers and Faxes to add the
rinter as a new network printer.
(Printers can be shared by
Macintosh computers, too, and
in earlier versions of Windows.)
If you do not yet have Wi-Fi at
home and have been thinking
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to kill two birds with one stone
by buying a Wi-Fi router (to
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One such unit, the GWA501
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Setting up the device, which
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with a U.S.B. cable, and anyone
on the network can print to it.
A similar unit is available from
SMC Networks. The obvious
drawback of this solution is that
the printer must be situated
within a U.S.B. cable's length of
the router. (Combination devices
that work with parallel-port
rinters are available from
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