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Top Ten: Ways to Liberate Your Printer

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Go wireless. Sure, you can always get a new wifi printer like the Lexmark Wireless Printer. But there are plenty of other solutions that allow you to print wirelessly. Here's our top ten devices that let you print without the wires.

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I've seen these devices too. Until someone comes up with an idea that doesn't cost equal to or more than the cost of my printer, I'm keeping it wired.

If you have a printer connected via a wire to a computer that is already on, you can enable print sharing over a wireless router (usually under $50) and achieve the same thing.

posted by sgt_easton on 2007-11-27 12:26:14
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We have the airport express for our stereo. It's fantastic to be able to send playlists from iTunes to the stereo via the laptop.

posted by wesaturtle on 2007-11-27 14:05:27
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Using the airport express to do wireless printing can be tricky. I finally got ours to work, but just make sure that you do some research online regarding your printer and router compatibility.

Once I got the Airport Extreme as a primary router, the Express seems to work a lot better than with the old Linksys. The itunes and printing works flawlessly now and it did not before the Extreme.

posted by wp on 2007-11-28 11:58:12
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sgt,

I agree that your solution is cheaper, but it requires that the computer wired to the printer be *on*. Our iMac is not constantly on, so when I print from my laptop the wireless printing is a terrific luxury!

posted by wp on 2007-11-28 12:00:28
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