Hi ,

 

Just bought a wireless printer for my daughter at uni, it 's a HP Deskjet F4580.

Got it home and the printer and the laptop DON'T actually make the connection, the printer has to connect to a wireless router and the pc connects to there.

 

Why can the printer just not connect to the Laptop directly, surely having it hanging off the wireless routers allows lots of unscrupuless students to print on the printer.

 

Or am i missing something

 

Rich

You're right there mate - it does have to be connected to the router - and it will allow other students to print on the printer. The reason they do it that way is you can't connect to multiple wireless networks at the same time with one wifi card and people want to access their router for internet and their printer at the same time meaning the printer has to be connceted to the router.

 

HTH

James

Doh , silly me, of course 1 network at a time..there must be a way to lock the printer down to one pc, ie my daughters.

 

we'll see, she's ringing tomorrow, when she adds it.

 

Thanks

 

What did i say my job was IT Manager......yeah sure..

Doh , silly me, of course 1 network at a time..there must be a way to lock the printer down to one pc, ie my daughters.

 

we'll see, she's ringing tomorrow, when she adds it.

 

Thanks

 

What did i say my job was IT Manager......yeah sure..

 

Don't put yourself down on such little things mate :)

 

Sometimes stupid little things like this can be annoying! I would of just bought a Wired printer, to stop people from connecting to the network and printing from it, but that was just me :)

 

And you could make it connect directly to the laptop, but making the Wireless network card on the Computer turn into an Adhoc Network, but that's alot of work :cowboy:

There may be a way depending on the printer software/router but possibly the best way to do it is to keep the printer in your daughter's room and only turn it on when she wants to use it. Good luck with it!

 

James

Don't put yourself down on such little things mate :)

 

Sometimes stupid little things like this can be annoying! I would of just bought a Wired printer, to stop people from connecting to the network and printing from it, but that was just me :)

 

Agreed - to be honest a most wireless printers I've dealt with are more trouble then they're worth - but it can come in handy when they're working properly lol.

Thanks guys, makes sense... I was trying to cheer her up on Val's day, should have checked the board out first, well she's at Leicester now for a couple of weeks so that gives me some rest.

 

RIch