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Introduction
With a wireless network, you share information between computers and printers
using radio waves, similar to the technology used in cordless phones. You can place
the EPSON Stylus C80WN in a convenient location and print to it without having to
connect it to your computer or an existing wired network.
You can add the EPSON Stylus C80WN to your network either with or without a
wireless access point (or AirPort
™
Base Station).
If you have an access point/base station, both wired and wireless-equipped computers
can print to the printer. Your computers communicate with the access point, which
communicates in turn with the wireless print server. In addition to letting computers
share the printer, an access point might be used to allow computers to share other
resources, such as Internet access. The illustration below shows a wireless network that
uses an access point.
If you don’t have an access point, you can still print to the EPSON Stylus C80WN
from any desktop computer or laptop that has a wireless adapter. In the illustration
below, both wireless-equipped computers communicate directly with the print server.
computers on
LAN (Local
Area Network)
wireless
laptop
printer
wireless
print server
cable/ DSL modem
access point or
AirPort Base
Station
wireless print
server
printer
wireless
computers
