Lab Rats has now been at it for 300 episodes - it's time to celebrate! For this episode, Andy and Sean are joined by students from Daniel Beylerian's computer science class from Trenton High School in eastern Ontario. They ask questions and tell us their favorite Lab Rats episodes!

Once you have a wireless printer that you want to use, you'll probably want to set up the software and get printing. In this episode, we show you how to do just that by setting up the HP Envy D410a and connecting it to our network before attempting to

wirelessly print from our laptop

.

In our first episode of this four-part series on how to set up wireless printing in your home, we'll explain what you need to get started. The two most important (and most obvious) components will be a functioning home network and a printer capable of connecting wirelessly. You'll also need to have your network password as without it you won't be able to connect your printer.

Setting up a printer to

print wirelessly on the home network

can be hard work. Anyone who has ever tried to set up a printer probably know about the difficulties involved. That's why, in this series, we're going to show you how to set up a printer on the home network so that you can use it to print documents wirelessly from your desktop, laptop or even smartphone.

The benefits of wireless printing are plentiful. The most important would be the ability to print from virtually anywhere on any device. Another major plus is the elimination of cramped spaces and unwanted cables. Although a novel idea, the execution has (thus far anyways) left a lot to be desired.

While

at CES 2011

,

Sean Carruthers

manages to find an incredible

portable inkless printer

. This printer, called the

GL10 Mobile Printer

, can print 40 pictures per charge and also has

Bluetooth connectivity

. Sean speaks with Paul Baker of Zink Imaging about the product and when we can expect to see it on shelves.

Stay tuned to butterscotch.com for more

up to the minute video coverage from the CES 2011 show floor.

Bluetooth is a wireless communication technology. It lets us chat on our cell phones hands-free, but it does much more than that too. Bluetooth can be used with wireless keyboards and mice and even with some printers. In this episode, Sean Carruthers details

what Bluetooth is

and

how to use Bluetooth

with our computers and mobile devices.

Your Android device can do so much. It manages your contacts, handles your email, lets you work with documents, and more. If needed, you can also find an application that will allow you to

print right from your Android phone

!

Long have we waited for the fabled paperless office. The office where e-mail rules all, where paper is not shipped in by the crate and loaded into the printer daily by the ream. While we've made some steps forward, the paperless office is still but a pipe dream. Until we reach that paper-free plateau, we're going to need printers. Andy and Sean take a look at inkjet, laser and multifunction printers, explain how they work and explain why you might want to choose one type over the others.

Ubuntu supports a wide array of computer peripherals right off the bat. Getting most devices working on Ubuntu is a simple plug and play affair. In this tutorial, Michael "Doc" Callahan demonstrates

how to set up a printer in Ubuntu

. For many

first-time Ubuntu users

, it's amazing

how easy it is to set up peripherals in Ubuntu

You may have installed Windows 7 RC1 on one of your computers. You may have put it on one of your laptops. It's also possible that you've created a few Windows 7 RC1 virtual machines. At the same time you probably have a machine on your network that's running XP. Here's how you can easily

share printers

between all of them.

The oft-promised paperless office is no more a reality today than it was 20 years ago. Until the paperless office takes hold, perhaps sometime this century (no promises), a home printer is necessity. Andy and Sean take a look at setting up a printer on your home network. This way, any computer you allow on your network, whether PC or Mac, can use your printer too. And you no longer have to waste valuable desktop real estate on your printer.

Cheryl Poirier is back, this time practical tips for saving ink and toner when printing documents. EcoPrint2 Ink and Toner Saver goes beyond the Best / Normal / Draft settings of your printer and can save you up to 75 per cent on ink.
A savings calculator allows you to input the average cost of a color or black cartridge along with how many cartridges you use in a month to give you an estimate of how much money you're saving.

In episode 143, Andy and Sean explain Dots Per Inch with the assistance of a giant green eyeball, and talk about why that's different from image resolution. Sean breaks out the EyeClops microscope to get a close-up, showing off the pixels and dots that make up the picture both on screen and in a printed image.

Bluetooth is a wireless technology that lets devices communicate with each other without the need for a physical connection. The benefits are obvious; no more cords or cables connecting our headsets to our phones, our keyboards and mice to our computers. In this series, Sean Carruthers takes a close look at Bluetooth technology and shows us

how to pair a Bluetooth headset with a phone

,

how to use Bluetooth

and some

uses for Bluetooth you may not have known existed

.

Setting up a printer to print wirelessly on the home network can be hard work. Anyone who has ever tried to set up a printer probably know about the difficulties involved. That's why, in this series, we're going to show you how to set up a printer on the home network so that you can use it to print documents wirelessly from your desktop, laptop or even smartphone.