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Originally Posted by Aragorn
If you have a wireless printer it will have a 'print server' built in.
DHCP addresses will 'work' but they could easily change each time the router and printer are restarted.
The printer's web interface will allow you to assign a fixed IP in the routers IP range, eg my router hands out DHCP IPs starting at 192.168.1.100, so my printer is set to 192.168.1.95.
Once you have a fixed on the printer you can start connecting client PC's to it, via that fixed IP.
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I was thinking whether Wireless printers use a naming system, i.e. they print to the device name not the IP address, therefore you wouldn't need to use a static address? Or is the printer communicating via the Default Gateway of the router, so it doesn't matter if it's own address changes?