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Originally Posted by rudeboy  so a wireless print server hooks up to the printer and i access it from any workstation ? |
That's the one!
Your printer gets an IP address and instead of printing to a parallel or USB port, each computer prints to a network port instead. In most cases you don't have to update the printer driver on the workstations, just change the port the printer uses.
Some types of print server require a dedicated network port driver to be installed on each workstation (usually the cheap ones), others such as the Jetdirect series will work natively with most operating systems.
Also a tip if you use DHCP and DNS on the network; set up the print server with a friendly host name and point the clients to this rather than the IP address. That way you don't need to assign a static IP to it which can save a bit of work over fiddling with network settings if you decide to change the printer or network configuration later.