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Installing wireless and cloud printers

Installing wireless and cloud printers

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Installing wireless and cloud printers

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- If you want to avoid the whole sharing issue, why don't you go ahead and set up your printer as a network device. Now, there's two kinds of network devices. There are wired devices, and that means you're going to have to have a printer with a network card in it and there's also wireless devices. And in that case, you're going to have to have a printer with a wireless NIC in it. The interesting part is there's not a whole lot of difference in terms of that type of configuration. So first of all, let's talk about a wired connection. Most printers today are incredibly aware of their network, and if I plug in an RJ45 into this device and assuming I've got a good connection to the same network that all my devices are on, then it's not that big of a deal. Most of the time, I've got some choices here. Number one, most of these printers will yell out on the network. First of all, they're almost always DHCP clients, so they will grab a DHCP address pretty much instantly. Also, they will…

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