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Assuming that you're using Windows 10, most printers seem to have problems with printing through wifi, especially if you've just made some major updates to Windows 10. Try these steps first - #1 You might have to reinstall the software and/or the driver for your computer. If it still doesn't work, try printing with windows default driver. If nothing works, then the best thing is to print using a USB cable.
With a wireless router that you probably have for you laptop. Printer should be connected directly to the router, and all PC's in you home can use it as a network printer, so everyone can print on it. Whether connection between printer and router is Wi-Fi or cable is of no importance.
The procedure of installation may be a little boggling for someone doing it the first time. As I remember you should start installing driver CD on you laptop, and it will tell you when to connect printer to it, and when the basic part of installation is over. This way you can use printer connected directly to you laptop via USB.
Next it will offer you to set wireless parameters. If your router is set to automatic (DHCP) it will ask you to register printer on your home network and you must enter your wireless network SSID and password somewhere in your printer. It should not be too hard. You just have to fallow the instructions.
If your friend comes over with a laptop and joins your wireless network, he still can't use your printer, because he's hasn't got drivers installed, so you'll have to do that part all over again, for every PC.
If the sky wi-fi is your own wi-fi service then the password is normally on a typed label stuck to the wi-fi router itself along with the SSID of the wi-fi network which should be the same as you have selected on the Kindle in confirmation you are connecting to the correct network.
If the sky wi-fi is not your own wi-fi then you will either need to contact the owner or administrator of that network or select a different wi-fi network to connect to as described in the Kindle Support web pages for your device.
Do a search engine hunt for a "WIRELESS PRINT SERVER" and you'll bring up a Netgear WGPS606 for about $60-80 or a Linksys for $36-150 (the same one :-)).
The Netgear has 2 USB A ports and 4 ethernet ports. You plug in your printer, activate the wireless part to receive a signal and you have a networked USB printer.
I assume the Linksys works exactly the same way, except it may not have the additonal 4-port ethernet switch.
Windows XP has a built in wifi configuration tool, previous versions of windows dont have this feature. But if you were to buy a wireless card it comes with software for wireless to work on all versions of windows from 98 - XP most if not all new laptops have wifi built in & that will be able to share your broadband connection through the netgear router. You can configure the laptop & pc to share files & printer between each other, easy way of doing that is by using the wireless network setup wizard which can be found in Start -> All Prograns -> Accessories -> Communications -> Wireless Network Setup Wizard.
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