USB printer via wireless router

Hi All
I'm not exactly a newbie, however, this is a completely newbie question as far as what I know how to do. I've got TP-Link plugs connecting my PC, my daughters TalkTalk TV and my wireless router. Along with that the wireless router connects my wife and daughter's 'phone, tablet, laptop etc. Pretty standard setup and it works fine.
Where the issue comes is that I only have USB printers (Canon MP270 and HP F2180). Unfortunately neither of them are network enabled i.e. they lack a CAT5 socket, so I can't connect them via TP-Link plugs or equivalent. Ideally, because I have a couple of spare wireless routers, I'd like to be able to plug a second wireless router into the network and then access a printer, which would hang off the back, via any device in the house. This would mean that my PC doesn't have to be on whenever they want to use a printer. I did setup a server but they didn't like the messing about having to switch it on.
I can't hang the printer off the main router because my wife would never let me have a printer in the living room! I also can't move the router to my office because I don't have a telephone socket. Hence, the idea of using a second router to get a printer onto the network, via a TP_Link plug - I've experimented and I can sort of get it to work - seems a great solution. If only I knew how!
I'm asking in the Arch forum for a couple of darn good reasons: Archers tend to know more than anyone else in my opinion and the Arch Forum is the best there is (not brown nosing, it's just true).
So, a) is it possible and b) How do I, roughly, go about it?
Thanks
Richard

czubek wrote:Qinohe had a good suggestion with the RPi. It has two usb ports. One could serve the printer and the other a usb wifi dongle. I have an RPi for my print server but it is hard wired to my router.
Using a RPI has another advantage, you could setup SANE to act as a server together with xinetd, that way everybody in the house can use the scanner too, could be a lot of walking, though
I seldom use the scanner, so I decided to keep that one local, on the PI.
Btw. Mine is also hardwired..

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