Home Hub 3 - Canon MP495 Wireless Printing?

Hiya, my old fella had BT Infinity installed last Friday, and is due to have his router upgraded / exchanged next week.
From an internet point of view, all is working very well and we're all impressed with it
However, I bought him a Canon MP495 printer, so that he didn't have to have his MacBook Pro connected to a printer in order to print.
So, I just wondered if anyone can give me some guidance as to how I can connect the printer to either the Router or the Home Hub, so that I can print wirelessly from the laptop?
Am I able to connect the printer to the Router / Home Hub wirelessly? Or do I need to connect via an ethernet cable?
Any help / advice appreciated

Manchester wrote:
Hiya, my old fella had BT Infinity installed last Friday, and is due to have his router upgraded / exchanged next week.
From an internet point of view, all is working very well and we're all impressed with it
However, I bought him a Canon MP495 printer, so that he didn't have to have his MacBook Pro connected to a printer in order to print.
So, I just wondered if anyone can give me some guidance as to how I can connect the printer to either the Router or the Home Hub, so that I can print wirelessly from the laptop?
Am I able to connect the printer to the Router / Home Hub wirelessly? Or do I need to connect via an ethernet cable?
Any help / advice appreciated
Hi there,
What I would suggest you do, is use a USB cable to connect the printer to the Macbook, in order to install any drivers, software, etc.
When this is done, you can safely disable the USB lead from the printer/laptop and you should be able to join your wireless network, provided of course that you give the printer the correct WPA key (used to eastablish a "handshake" with your WLAN).
Here you go Here's a link, direct from the Canon website that details the procedure better than I could ever hope to explain it. Click me
Alternatively, if you want a little more control over the installation, Here's another link, showing how you can do it manually - In fact, I would prefer to use this method over the one listed above, personally.
On a side-note, I would also recommend that at some point, you download istumbler to check for other WLANs in your vicinity and if needed, move to a less crowded channel.
I hope this info helps.
**Edited to provide link and clean up errors**

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