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For a description of the wireless security options available for the printer, see the

wireless security page

.

Printing

Computers on the network send print jobs directly to the printer, which prints them

in the order received.
The printer can accept print jobs sent simultaneously from four users.
For example, if five users each send a print job to the printer at the same time, the

printer accepts four of the print jobs and rejects the fifth. The user who sent the fifth

print job should wait a few minutes and then resend the print job.

5.3.2 Wireless network examples

There are three common configurations for wireless networks:

Ad hoc

Infrastructure

Mixed wired and wireless

Ad hoc networks

An ad hoc network, also called a computer-to-computer network, is a type of

wireless network in which devices directly communicate with each other rather than

through a

Wireless Access Point (WAP)

.

For example, a simple ad hoc wireless network might consist of a laptop and a printer

communicating directly with one another.

Ad hoc networks are typically small and simple. Performance on these types of

networks can degrade if more than six devices are on the network.

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