Making Laserjet4 plus availble on home network

[martin1956]

I have an old HP Laserjet 4 plus that I would like to make wireless accessible in my home.

Is this possible ?

My lapton and others are linked via wireless Zyxel router.

[Valsimot]

Do you have a network card installed in your printer that is the first step just to make your printer network-ready?

[Repairatrooper]

https://www.tp-link.com/ca/home-networking/computer-accessory/tl-ps110p/

A device like this plugs into a parallel port and then allows you to connect to a wired port on your router, turning your printer into a network printer. Any other devices wired or wireless that connect to the same network would be able to print. Unfortunately wireless to parallel devices are pretty uncommon as parallel printers tend to be older and enjoy less support than USB printers.

[martin1956]

There is no network card in printer - I was hoping for a solution that sat outside the printer and used either the parallel port of the usb cable from the printer

[martin1956]

This looks a potential solution but the printer does also have a USB cable that runs from the parallel port

[Repairatrooper · Accepted solution]

You might be able to use a USB/wireless network adapter but I am not 100% sure that will work as most of the parallel to usb cables require a driver be installed.