Wireless network printing Christmas gift (CostCo) for my sister

What are today's wireless home network printing today?

I wish to give my sister in Texas a gift by buying online (probably at

a printer and having it shipped to her. She has a laptop with a D-Link or Linksys (I forget which) wireless PCMCIA card and wireless router (with four wired ethernet ports) from CostCo of years past that I gave her, hooked to her incoming cable feed.

Assuming the printer will remain stationary but the laptop PC will be used with encryption around house - are these our printer options?

1. Buy a fully wireless networked printer and set it up anywhere in the house sans wires (excluding the power cord). Then print to it via the laptop PCMCIA wireless card.

1. Buy an ethernet wired network printer and set it up next to the existing wireless router via a cat5 ethernet cable to one of the wired ports on the wireless router.

2. Buy a USB printer (no innate network capability) and buy a special box (dunno what it is called) that converts ethernet to USB so that she can print to that special box via the laptop PCMCIA wireless card and that special box will convert the signal to USB into the printer.

Are these our basic options today (assuming CostCo 300 to 500 dollar printers)?

Tony Susa

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Posted 5 years ago by Anthony Susa in Wireless Networking

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