This happens over a local, short-range Bluetooth connection, so the devices must be close enough to each other for this to work. You’d then have to pair your device and the printer. To use this, you’d need a phone, tablet, or laptop with integrated Bluetooth. Some printers support Bluetooth printing, although this is nowhere near as common as Wi-Fi printing. RELATED: More Than Headsets: 5 Things You Can Do With Bluetooth For example, let’s say you want to print to a wireless printer from an iPhone, Android phone, an iPad, or another type of tablet? How are you supposed to install printer drivers on your phone or tablet? You still need to install the appropriate printer drivers before your computer can print to it. However, this process can still be rather messy. This also makes it easy to share a single printer between multiple computers. Computers on the network can then print over the network.
Wi-Fi-enabled printers can connect to your wireless network, making themselves available to other computers and devices. As with USB printing, it requires printer drivers. Standard Wi-Fi printing is essentially a wireless form of standard wired USB printing. RELATED: 4 Easy Ways to Remotely Print Over the Network or Internet
