How to Make a printer wireless?

[Hassan170]

3rd times the charm.

 

ok so i have a WIRED laserjet printer that only prints when my laptop is plugged in via USB. Now the thing is I had a wireless printer before and I miss the convenience of printing from wherever I was in the house. (ik it sounds stupid since i have to collect the paper anyway but lets ignore that)

 

So my question is is there anyway i can make it wireless or send print jobs to it wirelessly?

Cuz its wired i cant print from my phone( already tried using an adapter) and i have to send the print job to my laptop, carry laptop to printer and its very annoying.

My router doesn't support print server functionality so that's not gonna happen.

[mariushm]

Buy a 20-30$ wireless print server from eBay? 

Only other thing I can think of would be to have some application on your PC which monitors an email address and auto downloads PDF files or whatever from there or monitors a shared folder and sends them to the printer. 

 

[Hassan170]

18 minutes ago, NZgamer said:

If you have an old laptop or PC, it can be used as a print server. If that's an option for you, I'll show you how if you want me to

i have an old dell laptop that i plan to turn into a HTPC maybe i can use that? Yes please do show me your ways.
 

[Hassan170]

9 minutes ago, NZgamer said:

Yeah, you should be able to use that. Do you plan to run Windows on your HTPC? If so, Windows has a built in printer share feature

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/share-your-network-printer-c9a152b5-59f3-b6f3-c99f-f39e5bf664c3

Yes, I do plan to have windows running on it. 

Oh sick,  that will be really useful for me thanks mate.