One of the most important things you will have to decide upon when you setup a wireless printer is where you want to put it and if one or more computers will be using it. All this is relevant to its placing and making sure the signal is within good range of the computers.  If you don’t want to set your printer up as a wireless printer, you can buy a wireless printer as is. If you decide to do so, I recommend checking out a Brother HL-2170W review.

Connecting your printer itself will be fairly simple if you have a modern computer, most modern computers and printers these days come with both Wi-Fi and Bluetooth inbuilt and are normally plug and play which means there is no technical work to be done. If these functions are not inbuilt on your computer you may need to purchase a wireless card.

The plug and play capabilities of modern PCs and printers will make installation quick and simple but you will still need to make your computer aware the device you are adding is wireless.  You can also buy a wireless printer. Brother HL-2170W is a good choice.

To do this you need to find out which operating system you are running and follow the instructions you’ll find easily online. These instructions are for Windows Vista. You should open network settings in the control panel and then click on file and printer sharing; hit the enable check box and then click apply.

Dependant on if you decide to just have one computer accessing your printer or if you want more than one you will need to enter all computers on the network and enable file sharing in much the same fashion as you enables the first one. In windows vista a quick way of doing this is clicking control panel, open printers, click on your printer and click on enable sharing.

Once you have all your computers set up and enabled within your network it should all be smooth sailing. It is worth keeping in mind though that wireless isn’t as reliable as physical connections and it can be interrupted by remote control waves and other electrical equipment so to situate your printer out of the way of other electrical devices is a good move.