New Laptop.. how to print without buying printer?

Question

(1) Do I save it on a hard drive disk, put it into a computer with a printer, and then click print?

How much are hard drive disks?

(2) Or do I buy a cord that connects the laptop to the printer?

Answer 1

you cant print wothout a printer but you can send your work to a computer with a printer and print off your work there

Answer 2

you cant print without a printer

Answer 3

If you have another computer with an attached printer, and you're connected to the internet through the same router, you can set up a local network and share the printer.

Or you could put what you want to print on a flash (thumb) drive and walk it over to the computer with the printer.  (This is called sneaker-net.)

Thumb drives run from $5 (128Mb) to around $80 (8Gb).  Average is around $20 for 2Gb.

Answer 4

Well it depends on where your printing setup.

If you have access to a printer that's on a network you can setup network printing under Start>printers and faxes>add a printer> add a network printer. You can then send your document to the printer just by being on the internet

If you have access to a computer that's connected to the printer but you personally can't connect to the printer then save it to a flash drive (get them for 5 bucks or cheaper usually) and then load the document on the computer attached to the printer and print.

You can also email the document to yourself and bring it up on a computer attached to the printer. Most ISP's provide an online site where you can view your email.

I don't see why you would need to buy a cord to the printer because A. each printer has it's own unique connection usually and B. if there's a computer attached to the printer it's easier to just print the files from there