How to print wireless with wired Printer

Nowadays many new printers are coming with WiFi connectivity to print wireless using mobile devices e.g. mobiles, tablets, laptops. But if you have some old printer with only USB connectivity no need to worry in this guide we will explain you how to print wireless with wired printer.

Print wireless using print server available with some routers

If you have some old/new router with print server facility you can print wireless using your laptop. Follow the below steps to configure printing through router:

Some routers having print server features e.g. we are having one  D-Link router 2750U that is having one USB port for internet connectivity using 3G – Dongle (earlier widely used, now WiFi dongle has come in to the picture). To configure connect router using Ethernet cable to its port-1 and second end to your computer (Desktop/Laptop). Now open any browser and type 192.168.1.1 in address bar, when user authentication page come type admin/admin (default user Id and password for router).

Insert the USB cable of your printer into USB port of router and powered on the printer. Now go to the Advanced tab of router, than go to Network tools>printer, enable printer here. If your printer’s driver available with router’s databases it will automatically pick up the details. For example we are having HP Deskjet 2050 printer which was available in this D-Link router database. Now copy the URL showing in this page.

To add printer in Laptop follow these steps

Unplug Ethernet cable from Laptop. Go to control panel and search for add printer, or search printer in Cortana search box. Now click on the add printer + sign, after some time you will see that “The printer that I want isn’t listed”. Click on this message now add printer dialog box will open, click over “select a shared printer by name” and paste the URL that pas copied through D-Link router and connect, you are done.  Now you can print wireless from your laptop if you are on the same network where your printer connected. But using this mobile devices like Mobile/Tablet are not able to print because this printer is not discoverable using WiFi. For printing wireless using wired printer use Google’s Cloud print, follow the following steps to register your local printer on Google Cloud Print.

Print wireless using Google Cloud print

In our earlier post where it was explained that how to print wireless using Google Cloud print. Using cloud print you can print wireless from anywhere in the world and it is not necessary that your mobile is on the same network as your printer. But your local printer needs to be connected with your Computer with working internet connection in computer to use this service. Your printer and computer both needs to be powered one.

Now Google Cloud print is revoked by Google, therefore Papercut mobility print is the best solution to print wireless on wired printer.

Steps for configure local printer with your Google account

Open Chrome browser in computer, open Chrome’s setting using three dots, now click on advanced, now go to Printing> Google cloud print> manage cloud print devices>  classic printers> add printer. From the list of local printer  select your printer and register with google account

Steps for printing on this cloud printer using mobile phones

Your Android smartphone should be on the same Google account where you have registered your Google Cloud print in Chrome browser on PC.  To configure google cloud print open settings of mobile, search for printing, using + sign add service; now from play store add Cloud Print by google. Now you are done. For testing open any document in mobile e.g. PDF document, from three dots select print and then select your printer that you have configured that’s it.

Using Google cloud print you can even print from any internet network from anywhere in the world with the condition that your computer from which local wired printer connected should be powered on and should be connected with working internet. 

Following the above steps you may now get the answer, How to print wireless with wired Printer.