Digital BW, The Print

Go buy an Apple Airport Express and plug it into the wall (power socket) next to the 
printer and connect the printer to it via the USB cable connection.  Configure the wifi 
(either as a new network or as a repeater to an existing wifi network) and you are done.  
$129 works like a dream.  Your computer will need a wifi card but these are pretty 
standard these days so I assume you likely have that already.  I just did this yesterday and 
was done in 5 minutes from opening the box.   That was with an Apple computer and a 
Windows laptop - they can now share the printer.  The Airport Express also has 
instructions for Windows computers.   


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Bernie Ess" <albatros-@g...> 
wrote:
> 
> Hello, in the future I would like to get a larger printer than my
> current Stylus 2100 - maybe a Stylus 4000, maybe even a 7600. In
> either case, I wouldn't want to have this huge machine standing in my
> living room where my computer is, but in my sleeping room where I have
> some empty space...
> 
> Now my question is how to connect this printer to my PC: To connect it
> directly via cable is quite far ( cable would have to be at least
> 15-20m, it's on the other end of the flat) and I would have to lay out
> a cable through my whole appartment - How about wireless? Would I have
> to have a whole PC or would a small hardware receiving unit be enough?
> I am not experienced at all with this stuff...
> 
> Could it be done with a notebook - (I have a IBM thinkpad - how many
> MB of RAM would be recommended just to make the notebook print the
> files - no editing of course).
> 
> Thanks for your input,
> 
> Bernhard