How can I print wirelessly from a laptop to a printer without a router?

How to print wireless - from laptop through router to printer?

• I have a new Dell’s laptop which I was able to configure to use the wireless Linksys WRT54GS router to access the DSL modem to go to the Internet. This works fine. Now I want to add the printer to the fry. What do I have to do – in as many detail and possible – to add a printer to the router in order to be able to print from my laptop (wireless) to the printer? I am new to networking and wireless networking, so any help (in easy step-by-step format preferably) would be greatly appreciated. I have a laptop, a router and a network enabled printer

• Answer:

  If you have a network enabled printer, then it should have an Ethernet port on the back - the same kind of plug a wired Internet connection uses. All you need to do is plug in the printer to the router, and the router will automatically assign it an IP address (your laptop needs this address so it knows where the printer is on the network!) Next, install the printer software on your laptop, and when asked, install it as a Network Printer, not a Local Printer. It should find the printer on the network and set things up nicely for you. If for some reason your printer does not have an Ethernet port on the back, then you will need a network print server. Netgear makes on for about $40 that you plug the USB printer into and then it sits by itself on the network. The rest of the setup would be the same.