Wireless Printing

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Hi,

I’m  a freshman who just moved into Alumni Hall in 2F. I have a wireless enabled printer which I’d like to share with my 3 roommates via the FIT dorm network. As a part of setting up the printer,  I tried to setup the Wi-Fi connection – it found the network and said that it was successfully configured but when we try to use the printer on our PCs it cannot find it – it is not visible as a selection. The printer was installed on the PC and works if hard wired via a UBS cable. Are we able to add a printer to the network for sharing purposes? The computers are Mac laptops and the printer is an Epson archival 730.

Thanks,

Kelly Millington

Answer:

Hi Kelly,

Unfortunately we do not allow wireless printing in our infrastructure. The printer has to be hardwired to a computer in order to use it for printing.

Sumit Bagchi
IT for FIT
Fashion Institute Of Technology
227 W. 27th Street
New York, NY 10001

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