What is wireless printing? What types of wireless printing are there?

Wireless printers are a popular trend today, in addition to the advantage of not needing a messy connection, what else is attractive about this technology? The answer will be answered right in the next article.

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What is wireless printing? Pros and cons

Wireless printing is the operation of printing your documents and images remotely without having to connect to a computer via a cumbersome USB port, but can still print remotely via Wifi, internal LAN, Bluetooth, NFC very convenient. Depending on the type of wireless connection, you can print documents quickly and conveniently.

Wireless printing not only prints from normal desktop computers, laptops but also prints from smart mobile devices such as Android phones, iPhones, iPads, tablets.

Current wireless printing technologies

Currently, there are many wireless printing standards, users need to learn the features, pros and cons of each to make a reasonable and best decision for their needs.

Wireless printing over Wi-Fi

Wireless printing standard Wi-Fi is a fairly common form of printing in companies and corporations today. With just a printer and a few basic network settings, all devices connected to the same Wi-Fi network will have access to and print documents.

Of course, before you want to print connected devices, you must install drivers, for computers, this is quite an easy problem. However, for smartphones, it is a bit more complicated, users need to find and install the application from the printer manufacturer. If the company has many different printer brands, the use is quite complicated.

Wireless printing via Bluetooth

With this printing technology, you can use all bluetooth-connected devices such as smartphones, tablets or computers to access the printer and perform printing.

Wireless printing via Bluetooth eliminates the disadvantage of complicated driver installation of Wi-Fi printing, but each time the user needs to move closer to the printer because bluetooth has a rather short connection limit (under 15m). In addition, the data transfer rate through this technology is quite low, so it will take a lot of time to print large files.

AirPrint wireless printing technology from Apple

AirPrint is a breakthrough printing solution from Apple, with this technology users can use devices such as iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch or Mac to connect to the printer easily without installation. any other clunky software.

Apple products will automatically recognize AirPrint and suggest to users if they are using the same Wi-Fi network, the connection process and transfer speed are also very impressive and fast.

The only downside of AirPrint is that it only supports devices from Apple, other products such as Android smartphones or Windows computers cannot use this technology. Of course, printer companies (including Apple) can integrate many technologies in parallel with AirPrint to be able to support a wider variety of connected devices.

Google Cloud Print wireless printing technology

This seems to be an exciting field when both Apple and Google are involved, Google Cloud Print printing technology removes connection limits. At that time, all internet-connected devices can use Google Cloud Print to print.

The way Google Cloud Print works is also quite simple, you just need to sign in to your Google account on the device you want to use and link the printer. When you print using Google Cloud Print, your document is sent to the printer over the Internet.

The advantage of Google Cloud Print is that it can work on a lot of devices from Android smartphones to iPhones, iPads, from Windows computers to MacOS computers, as long as you have internet and use Google services.

Other wireless printing solutions

Each printer brand is equipped with different wireless printing technologies, for example Epson has iPrint, and HP has ePrint. To use, users use smart devices such as phones and tablets, then download the corresponding wireless printing-enabled application on the app store (Google Play or AppStore).

Thus, you can see that the current wireless printing technology is very diverse, especially the printing devices are not limited to the accompanying technology. That is, a printer can be equipped with both wireless printing via Wi-Fi, wireless printing via Bluetooth, wireless printing via Google Cloud Print or even wireless printing via AirPrint from Apple.

Depending on individual needs, users can choose for themselves a printer with the most appropriate wireless printing technology. Above is all the information about wireless printing technology and wireless printer, hope they will help you more in daily life.