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  old xerox printer .. how do I network with airport? PLEASE HELP!!!

  Posted by Chris Miller on June 26, 2005 at 8:07 pm

  Hi
  I have a 8 year old laser xerox workhorse that costs me peanuts compared to my inkjet but since upgrading my gear it has been neglected. I have an apple talk to ethernet adapter hub I’ve connected the printer to my airport and I what to print from my laptop over the wireless….any ideas next ?? PLEASE !!!!\thanks
  Wilko

  Chris Miller replied 20 years, 10 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Curtis Thompson

  June 26, 2005 at 10:23 pm

  hello…

  if the printer itself is a network printer (hard to guess but i’d say probably not) then when you plugged it into the airport it has an ip that you can connect to it with (not a regular airport user, so i can’t recall if you can get a list of currently connected devices via the control panel – if so, then you could get it’s network name and ip that way)…

  if not, then you should connect it directly to one computer on your network and set that box up to share the printer with other boxes…

  if you happen to have an airport extreme and some way to convert the signal to usb, you could try this:

  https://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107456

  otherwise, sharing printers is discussed here:

  https://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25397

  hope that helps!

  sitruc
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  Chris Miller

  June 27, 2005 at 8:00 am

  thanks for your help!!!

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