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Cómo convertir una impresora con cable en inalámbrica

Have you ever wondered how you could make your wired printer into a wireless one? For sure, making this possible would make our personal and work life. Just imagine being able to print from your mobile, tablet or laptop wirelessly, would that be very convenient?

When you are at home or in the office, being able to print wirelessly saves time and makes it very convenient. Though there are ways on how to do this without having to print it wirelessly like sending the file through email or copying the files on cloud and access it on the PC that is connected to the printer, these methods are quite complicated and time consuming.

Hence, if you have a wired printer which connects to a PC through USB or Ethernet based network printer, you might think to invest on a wireless printer. This could cost you more and though this is the case, through this article, will able to help you avoid this. Through this article, you would no longer have to invest on another printer.

Cómo convertir una impresora con cable en inalámbrica

Ethernet Port

Printers could connect through ethernet port which means it is through a network card. There is another way to connect is also the usual USB port. These type of printers are called network printers. If you wish to convert your network printer into a wireless printer, all you have to do is to follow the steps below:

Connect printer to WiFi router’s LAN port through ethernet cable
Turn the printer on
Wait for your printer to initialize
On your laptop, install the driver software of printer
Driver will then recognize the printer
Complete the setup
Test print

If your printer is not recognized by your laptop, you could set up your printer manually by adding a printer option through IP address.

Navigate to pinter menu
Ir a la configuración
Find network status
Look for IP address of your printer
On your laptop, search printer on the start menu
Select add printer
Click on printer that I want is not listed
Click add printer using TCP/IP address or host name
Enter the IP address of your printer
Select device type as autodetect
Click next to complete the set up

USB Port

Turn on network discovery
Turn on file and printer sharing
Select advanced sharing settings in the control panel

Share printer over network

Select printer
Select manage
Click printer properties
Select sharing
Check the box beside share this printer
Click apply
Click ok
On another laptop or PC, add shared printer through the add printer settings
On the printer dialog, select a shared printer by name
Look for the shared printer
Click on the shared printer name
Double click to install the printer
Ensure that on the antivirus or firewall settings, shared printer is enabled

Print Server Supported Routers and Print Servers

Turn your printer on
Connect your printer with USB cable to router’s USB port
On the print server tab, you will find the detected connected printer. This is if your router supports your printer driver
Provide the name to your printer
Address will be generated
Select printer to configure the printer

Keep in mind that if your router does not support your print server, you could purchase print server or print server based routers.

Examples of print servers:

TP LINK TL-PS110U
D-Link DIR-825 AC 1200 WiFi
TENDA D303 Wireless N300

Cloud Printers

Using google cloud print, you will be able to print from your mobile to USB printer if connected with a PC or laptop. Unfortunately, this feature no longer exist. Do not worry as you could use one of the best alternatives and that is through PaperCut.