Wireless Printing - Comments Page 2

I have setup a network printer and can print from my laptop, but it does not work when the network computer has gone into standby. Is there a way to take the network computer out of standby with my wireless laptop?

EDITOR'S NOTE: A feature called "Wake on LAN" may need to
be enabled in the motherboard's BIOS. Or you might twiddle with the Power Mangement settings in the Control Panel.

My network computer is on Windows XP home, but my laptop is on Mac OS X. I can't figure out how to find the "shared" printer on my laptop...it's not under "Add Printer" in Word.

EDITOR'S NOTE: Is the laptop part of (connected to) the network? Did you specify the printer as "shared" on the Windows machine?

My home network computer has the printer attached, when I'm at home I also have my work laptop and I'd like to print from my laptop to the printer that's attached to my home PC via the network, but my Laptop can't be in the same workgroup as my home PC because my laptop is in a work domain and my home PC isn't. Is there any way around this, other than disconnecting my laptop from my work domain?

Hello - I followed all the steps in your article; read all comments and tried some of those suggestions; still can't print wirelessly from laptop to network printer.
Wireless desktop pc can print to the printer; desktop host pc is USB2 direct connected to printer; network allows laptop to login; laptop finds network. Host runs McAfee/Zone Alarm; corp. laptop runs McAfee Enterprise. Suggestions welcome!

EDITOR'S NOTE: Did you try removing the ZoneAlarm software? I'll bet that's the roadblock. Software firewalls add very little value.

Followup to previously posted comment--when I Browse For Printer, my network printer does not show under the network name under Microsoft Windows Network in the Shared Printers List. The network name matches my host network name, and an account with my corp laptop ID is defined on the host. Printer drivers were locally installed on the laptop from CD, but I have tried to define the printer as a network printer. Laptop is XP Pro, Host is XP Home. Both are current on Service Packs. Looking for a simple answer!

Thanks for the great article. I have two laptops (one with XP Pro and one with XP Home) and one desktop (with XP Pro). My printer is connected to the desktop. I was able to follow this procedure on the laptop with XP Pro and set up the printer with no problem.

On the laptop with XP Home, the printer did not show up in My Network Places when I browsed for it. To successfully add the printer I had to enter the complete path name of the printer (ie \\Name of Desktop\Full Name of Printer) to get this to work. By Full Name of Printer I mean the name of the printer that shows up on the desktop computer when you look at the Printers Folder - not the Share Name that shows up when you Share the printer.

I set up printer sharing on a XP Notebook, the printer is recognized by a Powerbook over a wireless network but when printing the document is 25% size. Could you walk me through the correct steps since output depends on what canon model I select in the Info window of the shared printer in Macs Printer Setup.

I added a network printer to my wireless laptop. The printer is shared and is attached to a desktop that has a wireless router. Everything installed correctly. I can see the printer icon on my laptop but when I print a test page from the laptop, I keep getting the windows error message "windows has encountered a problem and needs to close...etc.".

I have read all the questions and still have a very basic question: I have a wireless laptop and just bought a wireless ready printer. The printer and laptop don't talk. Do I need to set up a network with a router? The laptop recognizes the printer is there, but the printer won't recognize a print command from the laptop.

EDITOR'S NOTE: Sounds like you do need a router.

i have been for a while now trying to link my apple laptop to my windows xp pc to print wirelessly from my laptop. i have been told that the printer needs to be connected to the router,not the pc, but there is not a usb port on the router. i came across your site and it says nothing about this. is there any help you can offer to remedy this issue?

EDITOR'S NOTE: If you want to print wirelessly, you should connect to the router wirelessly, not with Ethernet or USB cables. Does your router have wireless capability? It should have an antenna if so. If not, you'll need a cabled connection.