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[kennalder]

Hello all. I would like to be able to print some docs to a US based printer via the internet. Anyone know if this is even possible?
Thanks.

[stkyricesf]

It is possible if you have a VPN connection and if you use windows you can RDP into a network
to print to a US base printer

[niller74]

There are several ways of doing this, and no, you don't necessarily need a VPN connection to the network where the printer is located. Once that is said doing it through VPN is more convenient.

[kennalder]

stkyricesf, on 2009-10-21 02:52:13, said:

It is possible if you have a VPN connection and if you use windows you can RDP into a network
to print to a US base printer

I'm not as computer literate as I used to be. Anyone know of someone in Chiang Mai that could set this up for me?

[monty]

Sorry to be daft, but why not send the documents to be printed to them and let them do it themselves?

I have done remote printing before and found that most print jobs (with graphics) required massive amounts of data to be transferred.

Presumably because everything graphic sent to the printer is sent in bitmap, whereas in the file it usually is in compressed format.

[Crushdepth]

We had a guy in Canada accidentally print to one of our machines in Thailand, so yes its possible. He still had our printer set as the default, and our (ex) computer guy had given the print server (and all machines on the LAN) a public IP address for reasons that are still a mystery to me. I think the computer guy had also set the printer's fixed IP during driver set up on the laptop, because he did that on my desktop.

So you could print from anywhere on earth for a while there, until some genius decided that a firewall might be a good idea [shudder].

[Phuquephace]

Email the doc or pdf.

[Martian]

If the printer is connected to another computer at that location, put that computer onto a free logmein account, email the document to yourself, open your email on the computer there through logmein and print away. A little round about way of doing it but it works.

Regards

[Langsuan Man]

Martian, on 2010-01-21 18:30:27, said:

If the printer is connected to another computer at that location, put that computer onto a free logmein account, email the document to yourself, open your email on the computer there through logmein and print away. A little round about way of doing it but it works.

Regards

Unfortunately the remote printing option is only for the PAID version of Log Me In but your idea of mailing an email to yourself would work since everything would be at the remote computer and printer. If it was something that you would do a lot of, I would consider going for the paid option since log me in is very easy to use once it is on both computers

Edited by Langsuan Man, 2010-01-21 18:53:52.