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introduction
hp wireless print server
overview
The print server is a printer accessory
that supports the IEEE 802.11b
standard for wireless LAN (WLAN)
communications. When the print server
is attached to a printer, appropriately
configured computers can send print
jobs to the printer over the WLAN.
When a computer sends a file to the
printer, a radio signal is transmitted.
When the print server receives the
incoming signal, either directly from the
computer (ad hoc/computer to computer
mode) or from an access point
(infrastructure/AirPort Network mode),
the printer prints the file.
With the wireless print server, users can
roam without losing printing capability
and network administrators have greater
flexibility in network design.
whom this guide is written
for
This guide is for network users and
administrators who have a working
knowledge of the following:
• wireless LAN technology
• print server technology
• the operating system(s) running on the
computer(s) being configured to use
the print server
terms and conventions
terms
This guide uses
ad hoc mode
and
infrastructure mode
to refer to the two
operating modes in which the print
server can function in Windows.
Macintosh uses the terms
computer to
computer
and
AirPort Network
for the
two operating modes.
Terms you may find associated with ad
hoc mode are
peer-to-peer
or
independent basic service set (IBSS)
.
Terms associated with infrastructure
mode are
networking
,
enterprise
, or
star
topology
.
The HP Wireless Print Server wp110 is
referred to as the
print server
.
