Wireless Laptop Print To Printer
When everybody is going wireless, imagine the convenience of shooting off the print option at one location and the printer at another site spews out the actual printing. This is indeed convenient and of course economical to be able to print from a wireless laptop to a printer at a remote location. When it comes to wireless printing, there are two leading technology giants - Bluetooth and Wi-Fi (or 802.11 b/g), each has its own support base and standards. Let us see these two technologies on a comparative scale.
Bluetooth
It is a radio-based technology that is used in conjunction with various devices like cell phones, PDAs, laptops, and printers. Within a certain range every Bluetooth device can communicate with another automatically. In fact many printers are Bluetooth enabled like the HP Deskjet 460 wbt Mobile Printer (C8153A) which allows wireless printing within the range of up to 30 feet at the maximum rate of 1 Mbps.
If yours is small office, work center or home then this wireless printer is perfect for you. Many new notebook and PDAs come enabled with Bluetooth technology and even older models can be easily configured with a Bluetooth card.
WiFi
The WiFi wireless network is common technology to most laptop devices and works on the IEEE 802.11 standard, and includes 802.11b (an 11 Mbps technology, which the present form of WiFi), 802.11a (a 54 Mbps technology, this is newer and is slowly catching on), and 802.11g (55 Mbps) which is the a much better version and can be used for larger distances. Wifi technology has a much larger reach of 300 feet as compared to its competitor and an excellent throughput rate that touches a maximum of 55 Mbps making it the clear choice for most wireless applications. A wireless print server is the device that connects directly to the printer in a wireless network and enables all the devices on that network to share the printer. These are options available in the HP Jetdirect print servers that will turn your wired printer into a wireless printing device. These are available in both internal and external versions so you can look up their features to help you decide what really suits you better. What is more, with HP Jetdirect print servers you don't just get a wireless printer but also the innumerable print management tools. Installing and configuring becomes a breeze with the Wireless Setup Wizard and they also come with embedded web servers and HP Web Jetadmin software to help you get any tools you might need or troubleshooting available from the web, making all printing jobs come together at your fingertips. However you have to plan your workspace carefully to avoid placing your printer in any dead spots. Given the nature of wireless printing there may be situations where you can just wheel your printer to any area but you discover that area has a weak signal and that interrupts your printing. Thus there is also some network reconfiguration and planning of the printing infrastructure to be done. For example you have to plan your Bluetooth that works on radio frequencies away from obstructions and WiFi's large coverage sometimes lands up being a security issue. Wireless printing does have its pros and cons though I feel that it does make life a lot more convenient and with wireless technology there are certain risks which is in our hands to handle if we want the convenience. Undeniably wireless printing is a novel option for those who would like to extend their printer across just their own desk.
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