# Remote printing options for the technologically unsophisticated

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remote-printing-options-for-the-technologically-unsophisticated/938537>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [March 24, 2021, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remote-printing-options-for-the-technologically-unsophisticated/938537 "2021-03-24T02:25:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tired\_and\_Cranky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a87d85/32.png) [@Tired\_and\_Cranky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tired_and_Cranky)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2021, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remote-printing-options-for-the-technologically-unsophisticated/938537/21 "2021-03-26T17:57:54Z")

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> [@LSLGuy](#):
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> Just a thought on deployment. …
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> You can buy the printer, have it shipped to you, then set up the emailing feature with it sitting on your desk connected to your Wi-Fi.

This is a very helpful idea. We could get their wifi name and password, and we could even enter that in advance. Hopefully. from there, it would be literally plug and play.

> [@filmore](#):
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> If the printer and router are close enough, it would be simpler to use a cabled ethernet connection from the printer to the router so there are no wifi issues to worry about.

Also a good thought. Their wifi/cable router is in their kitchen. They could put the printer on the counter and do this.

> [@BippityBoppityBoo](#):
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> Or consider having the GeekSquad from Best Buy go over and do those steps.

This is probably the simplest and best idea, and it will probably be the one we go with. it’s worth a couple hundred bucks to have this just work from the get-go. BippityBoppityBoo, I appreciate the suggestion.

> [@LSLGuy](#):
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> Maybe our emissaries to **T\_and\_C** ’s in-laws could wear black suits, white shirts, narrow ties, dark glasses, and dark fedoras and introduce themselves at the door with
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> > We’re musicians. We’re on a mission from the Internet.
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> That should calm their fears about strangers in their house.

I guess I just need to find dopers the right car. Something with a cop motor, cop tires, cop suspension and cop shocks perhaps.

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