Laptop remote printing?

whitegoods_engineer

I have use of a laptop which is set to prevent any software being installed onto it.

I want to be able to print remotely (within the same house) without having to install any software onto the laptop but this seems to be impossible.

There are many wireless printer gadgets but these all require drivers to be installed.

Does anybody know a way round this?

Jivesinger

I haven't tried it, but my HP printer apparently has a thing called 'ePrint'. Apparently this means that if I set it up, I could print to it from anywhere by sending an email with attachments - the attachments need to be a type of document which it recognises, like a PDF.

My printer has a Wireless connection so I think that if I set it up, it would be configured to listen to the outside world to receive the info from the email.
https://h30495.www3.hp.com/help#eprint

I imagine other printers offer similar functionality.

J_B

I *think* that my daughter has a printer that you can e mail to - is that an option??

S0litaire

you'll NEED to install printer drivers to be able to print anything (either physically connected to or remotely!)

Their is Google "Cloud Print" which works with chrome browser and most printers but the PC it's connected to must be on.
HP's ePrint is the same sort of thing but aimed at their range of networked printers. I use ePrint all the time with my HP printer.

If the printer is networked then it should be a simple task of installing the printer drivers and pointing it to the printer. (Most printers have a setup wizard that will do this for you). If it's not networked then you have to "share" the printer on the machine it's plugged into and run the wizard. but the PC has to be on to be able to print.

System

S0litaire wrote: »

If the printer is networked then it should be a simple task of installing the printer drivers and pointing it to the printer. .

The OP said in their opening post

I have use of a laptop which is set to prevent any software being installed onto it

so sounds like a works laptop

Jivesinger

S0litaire wrote: »

you'll NEED to install printer drivers to be able to print anything (either physically connected to or remotely!)

...er no you don't!

I just setup ePrint to try it on mine, and I can indeed print by sending my printer an email, from a computer without any printer drivers for the printer concerned.

Moss5

Send an email to yourself with the attached document.
On a computer with print access, open the email and attachment.