Or get an old PC, and add a wifi card, and then configure it to share the printer. Well simple in terms of wiring, just add a wired USB hub and a USB wireless card, and hook up the printer to another USB port, but if you are not experienced at Linux/UNIX administration, it may take some time to to learn the various menus. It would be fairly simple to set up a Rasberry Pi/Beagle Bone Black to be a print server. I'm not sure an Arduino has enough memory to be able to make a wireless print server from parts, and it is likely to be cheaper to buy one off the shelf (unless you want to learn how to do it). If the printer relies on the host for the driver (a so-called winprinter), it likely won't work. Many printers are supported if the printer has a driver in the printer itself. If it ever gives up the ghost completely, you can bet I'm going shopping for another one just like it.A print server has a network connection (wired ethernet and/or wi-fi wireless) and either USB output or parallel port that you hook up to the printer. Not the high volume printing like I do at work but for what I do at home, it's still chugging along.
And my old original 5-year-old printer? Rather than throw it in the trash, I brought it home.sort of like the Energizer bunny, it keeps going and going.
I love this old reliable printer! Sure, the newer printers will do all the fancy photo printing but for my line of work, basic document printing, you can't beat the old 895Cxi! I ended up buying two more on eBay - one for the other transcriptionist in our office and one for my boss for her personal use. I bought one and the clinic reimbursed me for it. Finally I got bright and searched eBay for an 895Cxi and, lo and behold, there were still some to be found. I could print for a month on one black cartridge on my old 895Cxi (bigger cartridges) whereas the new lightweight printer was going through 2 to 3 of the newer, smaller cartridges a week and, being lightweight plastic, it could not be counted on feed the paper properly and mangled a bunch of pages for me, which can't be tolerated when working with medical records. The clinic bought me a new printer but we all know how lightweight and cheap new printers are and I was really unhappy with the new one.
Finally the feed rollers just wore out and it could no longer handle the volume. I'm talking about printing 60-70-80 pages a day every day, 5 days a week for five years. This is an older model printer, I know, but I used one at the clinic where I work as a medical transcriptionist for five years until it literally wore out.
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