Wireless Printing

The AirPort Express and AirPort Extreme Base Stations both have USB ports to which you can connect a wide variety of USB printers, which wireless and wired clients using Mac OS X 10.2.3 or later can use. The base station automatically recognizes the printers and makes them available to other nodes on the network.

To set up wireless printing, open the AirPort Admin Utility, select the AirPort Express or AirPort Extreme base station to which the printer is attached, click Configure, click Base Station Options, click USB Printer, and then verify that the printer's manufacturer and model appear in the dialog.

For the client to print to the base station's printer, from any Print dialog choose Bonjour Printers from the Printer pop-up ...

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