USB printer connection

[Timothy Murphy]

Fred Smith wrote:

>> >>>> I have a printer (HP Officejet J4580)
>> >>>> which only has a USB interface.
>> >>>> What is the simplest way to connect this printer
>> >>>> to a WiFi LAN?

>> I should have said that it is too far from the server
>> for a direct USB connection.
>> Incidentally, why would I need to use Samba?
> 
> Samba would be useful if you had windoze machines on the network that
> wanted to use the printer, assuming wanted to share it out from a linux
> box.

I haven't found any problem printing from Windows machines on the LAN
without using Samba.
(The server is running on CentOS.)