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How can I connect a printer wirelessly to my laptop without a router? Which printer would be the best? I would like to connect a printer to my computer through wireless technology but I don't want the printer to have to use a local network to do it. I would like to connect directly to my printer. Also, I want an all-in-one printer that is around the $150 range. Any suggestions?

Hi and welcome
To be able to print wireless you need a printer with wireless capabiity like this one


It is a all in one HP printer and within your price range. It shoud be possible to set up in Linux with hplip.
Here is a general How To
Any other gurus in here with experience on this -that can help our new friend here?

The question is, that you are trying to connect to the Printer on Ad Hoc mode? Wireless connection from your NIC to the Wireless NIC on the Printer? Or lets say, Bluetooth?

You say that you have a Laptop, do you connect to the web in the same place that you are going to have the Printer?

If so, is much easier to connect to a wireless router and assign a Static IP so you can find it later. Also, to avoid from people finding easy, disable all the Discovery Protocols.

If you are going to Ad Hoc you have to assign a Static IP to your Machine and also assign an Static IP to your Printer so no routing is involved (like old days).

As Bluetooth connection, never done it, so I have no info on that.

The best Linux Printers on my Opinion are HP on Ethernet. They are a breeze to configure, they just works and HP support Linux and UNIX more than any vendor. USB and I/O ports is a little different depending on printers.