....In our household we have 3 laptops and a Main Computer, with the printer attatched to the Main Computer ( via a usb cable ). All the laptops/main computer are wireless and we all use the printer ( via the wireless ) If I perchase another printer does it have to be hard wired to a laptop/computer via a usb cable or will it work on its own if I plug in a Wireless dongle so it picks up the network and we can all share that printer too.......................Does that make sense..:confused:......PS:- Will we need the printer drivers on all the laptops/Main computer for this to work???

If you have a wireless router then you just need a printer that has an ethernet (network) port on it.

It can plug into a spare port on your router and then all the PCs can print to it without the need for anything else to be turned on.

If you have a printer with just USB ports then you can get a print server to connect it to the router

You can buy a wireless USB printer server, you'd plug in your printer onto the USB port on that device, and the device has it's own name/IP and you can print to that.

If you were to purchase another printer, same would apply

And you can buy a canon which has built in wireless.

or, if you buy a usb printer, you could just plug it straight into the router and then install the printer on each computer on your network - that's what i've done with ours