Can I print things at home while my laptop and I are 100 miles away?

Forum Wireless Networking : Setup, Configuration & Security Can I print things at home while my laptop and I are 100 miles away?

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I have a wireless printer (Lexmark Intuition S505) and a macbook pro. I also have an internet connection at home and school. I would like to print things while I am at school, but I would like them to be printed at my house (100 miles away). Is there any way this is possible? And if so, what would I need to buy? (ei. Wireless router? Bluetooth? Radio? an IT Specialist?) Thanks for your help!

Reply to computationallyilliterate

I have an HP Officejet Pro 8500 A910 connected to my home network (wireless) which allows printing documents from outside my home LAN. HP provides a website where you register your HP printer and gives you an email address that you can use as a recipient for attached documents. I send an email with a PDF attachment to my printer's email address, and it prints. It's that simple and it worked for me right from the start.

Reply to Arp

Simple way to get around this. Get a free pdf printer, or print to the MS Document Imaging printer, or the XPS printer. Those two get installed with MS Office. Then just print to those, it will save the print-out as a file. Then when you get home, print it out on the printer. Unless you have a need to get the print-out right there and then. Another way would be to setup the printer so it's accessible from the outside world, but you'd have to read the manual on the router and probably the printer on how to do that.

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