Can I use a router for my computer?
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Yes you can but you require a printer that is suited for a network and can stand on is own.
But with what you have you can also do this:
1) connect the two computers to the router.
2) Then connect the printer to one of the two computers.
3) Then you just turn on sharing for the printer. But the computer with the printer would obviously need to be on to print.
how to:
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Hi! Yes u can use a wireless HUB in connecting ur other computer to the printer.very simple to do and operate.
If the computers are already networked together all you have to do is right click on the printer and share it otherwise get a router or switch so the computers can see each other then share printer
If the computers are networked... share the printer off the computer it's connected to (you may have to install the printer and file sharing component of Windows... and you will have to choose a name for the printer).
On the other PC, use the add a printer dialogue to add a network printer. Find the name or IP address of the PC with the printer, associated with that find the printer. You may have to supply the driver disk... or you may not. That depends on what OS you are using on both PCs and how the printer was set up.
That's it.
If the printers are not networked, you will have to find a way of networking them. Attach them both to the DSL router will do the job. Put them both in the same workgroup, give them different computer names. You can use wifi if you like for the connection of 1 or both computers to the router.
This way of setting them up constrains you to have the PC-with-a-printer turned on for the other one to print.
The other way is to get an ethernet-to-printer adapter... much the same setup only both PCs would then use a networked printer.
Or your wifi router *may* have a printer port on it already... in which case plug the printer into the wifi router. This probably won't work with a win printer (not sure if that model of HP is a winprinter... if it is the PC is doing a lot of the formatting stuff so the printer has to connect to a PC.).
Buy a home print server. You connect the printer to the server and the server to your switch or hub. As long as your printer is turned on, either of your other PC's will be able to print on it not matter if the other is on or not.
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