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From: Boris on 21 Jul 2010 11:25
I've got an MP620, and have it connected wirelessly to my DLink router. I
print from three different wifi laptops, and it works great. My home
network is named codered.

The DLink router can operate both wirelessly and also has 4 Ethernet ports.
I have a desktop connected with an Ethernet cable to the DLink router.
This desktop does not have a wifi capabilities, and the MP620
drive/software has not been installed on it. I would like to be able to
send print jobs from the desktop via the Ethernet cable to the router (the
codered network), and have the router then relay the print job wirelessly
to the MP620 which is in another room.

My question is, since the MP620 is already set up in it's control panel to
work wirelessly, with my three wifi laptops over my codered home network,
will it be able to also receive print jobs from my desktop, in the way
mentioned in the above paragraph?

I've read the setup instructions many times, and I don't know if this is
possible. If it is, I also don't know if when setting up the desktop, do I
set it up as wireless, or as wired (but not via USB) since it is wired to
the router.
From: Mr John FO Evans on 21 Jul 2010 21:52
In article <Xns9DBC55C658F08blahblahcom(a)85.214.73.210>, Boris
<nospam(a)nospam.com> wrote:
> My question is, since the MP620 is already set up in it's control panel to
>
> work wirelessly, with my three wifi laptops over my codered home network,
> will it be able to also receive print jobs from my desktop, in the way
> mentioned in the above paragraph?

If your router is anything like my TP_link there is no distinction between
the wired and wireless connections and they will interwork happily. I have a
laptop connected wirelessly and various computers and a printer Ethernet
wired. All the connected computers including the laptop print to the
Ethernet connected printer. I have not tried printing with a printer
connected to another machine.

I have separate accounts for e-mail on the laptop and the other computers
on a single broadband connection.

The only problem I have ever had is that very rarely the printer is locked
to my wired Desktop PC - I don't understand this by the way.

John


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