It depends on the specifications of the printer
Wireless Networking and a WIFI
No, this is not a wireless printer. If you want, you can wire it into your Ethernet network and then it might work as a wireless printer if the Ethernet connects to a WiFi router.
Wireless networking.
Wifi printer installation varies from printer to printer. There are printers on the market today that are WIFI ready and all you have to do is link it to your wireless network. Other printers can be more complicated.
plug the thingy into the thingy.
Any standard 802.11b/g/n network, that is just about any wireless network sold in the past five years, will work with a wifi printer. The wireless transceiver is built into the printer.
Yes, several Dell laptops offer wireless comunications with both local sharing/bluetooth devices and wireless wifi acsess such as the Dell Latitude D600 which can be found easily online for a nice price. There are also many dell chips/parts avialble that enable wireless on both dell and non dell laptops such as the ; DELL 802.11 a/b/g wireless mini pci card.
Wifi printers connect to the wireless network in your home (your wireless router) in order to allow for printing without physically plugging your printer into you computer. Information is sent from the computer to your router to the printer which means that you can print from anywere in your house to a single stationary printer wirelessly.
Connect the printer to a network computer that is connected via a wireless router. If that doesn't work, use the built in WiFi connection and tell the computer to look for it and add it is a separate printer, then set it as the default printer.
That all depends on the software, model wireless card, drivers, etc.
By definition, a wireless networking device is Wi-Fi compliant. Wi-Fi is simply another name for wireless networking. There are different wireless networking standards that mostly determine the speed at which data can be transferred, but it sounds to me as though this statement of being compliant is just a fancy way to say that it is indeed a wireless device.UPDATE: I have since learned, that WiFi compliant has to do with a consortium of several manufacturers, and that they have trademarked the name WiFi and work together to make sure that their products are interoperable.
An AirPrint printer is a wireless printer that works over your wifi network, and allows you to print wirelessly from your Mac, iPod Touch, iPhone, or iPad.