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Can I plug a USB wireless receiver for a printer to print wirelessly?

Is this possible? I have an Epson Stylus CX5000 I can not for the life of me figure out if this can be wireless or not. It has a USB port and a memory card slot. My wireless router is a Linksys WRT150N.

You can (in a roundabout way), but it needs some additional equipment. USB has a "Master" and "slave" architecture (where PC is the master and have all the intelligence, and the printer is the dumb slave). Therefore, unless you add some intelligence on the receiving side of the printer, I just sit there. What we need is a wireless print server. Most of these use their wireless Internet router (the Linksys WRT150N, where applicable). Here's an example: http://www.nextag.com/D-LINK-DLink-Systems-70081028/prices-html Connects to this print server to the printer via the USB connector, then assign the print server an IP address. Then add a "new printer" on your PC and give you the same IP address. Then, voila! Printing fi! (And if these instructions sound confusing, the instructions that come with the print server must walk through the process). We used one of these years with few problems. Occasionally I will say "please type this, and nothing happens. When this happens, I will disconnect the router print a minute, return plug it, and here we go. Beyond that, it's been great. Hope this helps.

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