Both of these also have the advantage that they are a lot more reliable than WiFi. That risk does not exist when using a USB or wired network connection. At least your printer will not attempt to access the internet via the router - your TV or fridge will. However, that risk exists for every device that is connected, be it your Mac, your TV or your fridge. There are a number of separate parts to your question.įirst, yes there is a minor security risk by connecting the printer via WiFi. If it is, I don't see why they're trying to sell you on downloading and using the driver.
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I haven't found anything instruction-wise saying how to do this or if it's technically possible. Basically, I don't want to connect the printer to the network at all, just directly connect to it via USB. I'd also be interested to know if connecting to USB is a security risk, but that's a separate question :). Or if this is not possible I'd be interested to know why.
That is, I would imagine there is some printer where you simply plug it into your Mac and it shows up in some settings panel and you can simply open a PDF in Preview and press "Print to X printer", and you would get all of this without having to install drivers or connect through wifi. However, I'm not sure about the security of giving the printer your wifi password, so I wanted to see if there's a way to install a printer on a Mac using a USB cable, which doesn't require using a software driver/installation. This means you don't have to install any drivers which I would like to avoid. I am look at this which basically says you can simply configure your printer from the printer LCD screen by entering the wifi password and boom you're done.
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