PrinterAnywhere, enough said

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PrinterAnywhere, enough said

by Ryan Carter Aug 24th 2006

Ever had trouble installing a home network or tried to get your laptop computer to print to your desktop's printer, to no avail? Well, in the event that you aren't a network administrator (most people aren't) and can easily fix this problem yourself, PrinterAnywhere is here to help. The software works by having you establish a username and password, then allows you to setup the client on both your PC's, including the remote printer name. This way, you bypass networking issues and are able to print documents over the connection made by the client. The nice thing is that you don't need to have the remote printer's drivers installed on your laptop, so long as your desktop has them installed, you're all set. It prints quickly, as if you had your laptop computer connected directly to the printer via cable. This is an interesting piece of free software, currently in beta. Now, I know what you're thinking, "why not just get a wireless card or wireless print server?" The answer is yes, that would be easier for some people. However, networking issues aside, one of the ideas behind PrinterAnywhere is that you can print documents to a friend's computer at a distance.

More screenshots coming right up, after the jump.

Tags: printer, printeranywhere, remote

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Qwfwq said 1:27PM on 8-24-2006

From what I gather from this description this util seems to hold some potential. So would one be able, for example, to print something from home on your office printer?

Raaaaaah! said 1:49PM on 8-24-2006

A friendly Trojan. Cool!

Scott said 2:13PM on 8-24-2006

Its for little finds like this that make Downloadsquad my favorite web site! I use to use logmein.com free to do this, though it took much more work.

day said 5:06PM on 8-24-2006

I just tried this.. and it works, but it seems like you can't password protect your printer.. so anyone can print out crap ouf of your printer.

Peter said 6:48PM on 8-24-2006

day - The "administrator" way of doing this doesn't password protect the printer either. Would you really want to have to enter a password every time you printed something? AFAIK the only way to control access to a shared printer is with a domain-based network and AD.

Vlad said 9:41AM on 8-26-2006

This is great, but what I really wanted is a program that I could intall at my office and everytime I send a PDF attached to a specified email account this program would retrieve the mail and print the pdf's. Is there something like this out there?

Michael Honore said 2:23AM on 8-29-2006

I have been trying to find a way to print from a PocketPC.

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