Sharing printer on wireless network no desktop

[mynameismolotov]

Hey all I'm trying to setup my girlfriend's printer to be shared on her wireless network. The printer is a Cannon Pixma MP150. My first question is can it be shared over the nyetwork without being connected to a computer (just the router)? This is what I'm trying to do so if it isn't possible then I guess everything else here is irrelevant.

If that is a possibility though, how can I do this? The setup now is a cable modem with a wireless router attached to it. All the computers are laptops wirelessly connected; no desktops and no ethernet cables apart from the one between router and modem. The modem came with a wire to allow it to connect to a USB port to set it up, so I was trying to use it to connect the printer to the modem and have it be shared that way. I installed the driver for the printer on my computer, then disconnected the printer from it and tried to print wirelessly, but I just got an error saying to make sure it's connected properly. Anyone have any ideas on how I could make this work? Thanks

 

[Quiltface]

Doesn't look like that printer is a network printer... (neither wireless or wired) so you will need a usb print server. A wired or wireless one should work, if you get wired you will have to hook an ethernet cable up to the wireless router on your network. The print server should have instructions on how to set this all up.

http://www.dlink.com/products/?sec=0&pid=165

http://www.dlink.com/products/?sec=0&pid=482

Those are some examples.

 

[johnb35]

Hey all I'm trying to setup my girlfriend's printer to be shared on her wireless network. The printer is a Cannon Pixma MP150. My first question is can it be shared over the nyetwork without being connected to a computer (just the router)? This is what I'm trying to do so if it isn't possible then I guess everything else here is irrelevant.

If that is a possibility though, how can I do this? The setup now is a cable modem with a wireless router attached to it. All the computers are laptops wirelessly connected; no desktops and no ethernet cables apart from the one between router and modem. The modem came with a wire to allow it to connect to a USB port to set it up, so I was trying to use it to connect the printer to the modem and have it be shared that way. I installed the driver for the printer on my computer, then disconnected the printer from it and tried to print wirelessly, but I just got an error saying to make sure it's connected properly. Anyone have any ideas on how I could make this work? Thanks

The only way to network that printer is to have it continuously connected to one of the laptops so that all the other computers can print to it, however that laptop sharing the printer would always have to be on. The only other way to do it would be to get a print server as already suggested.