Can I connect my laser printer to my network so that I can print wirelessly from my iPad or iPhone?

AirPrint works with wireless (Wi-Fi) or wired (Ethernet) network connections. This means that one can choose to connect an AirPrint-supported printer either wirelessly or to one of the LAN ports of a Wi-Fi router. You will find a list of AirPrint printer models here:

About AirPrint - Apple Support

However, since your Ricoh laser printer is an older model, it may not support AirPrint. If so, if you wish to print from an iPad or iPhone:

a) If you have access to a Mac computer running OS X 10.9 Mavericks or newer (with printer drivers for the Ricoh), you could use a third-party Mac app such as Printopia in order to make that computer a print server with AirPrint-like capabilities. At least earlier, there were similar solutions for Windows PCs, but I do not have any information about the present situation.

b) You could also try a standalone print server with AirPrint-like capabilities. For example, the little Raspberry Pi device described by Techguyuk in Can’t print with iPadOS17 - Apple Community could perhaps be worth testing. The idea here is to use a Linux print server as an intermediary, thus allowing an iPhone/iPad to see a normally unsupported (USB) printer as an AirPrint device on a network.

To add a bit to Jan Hedlund's excellent reply ...

... FWIW I have set up a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ as an AirPrint server and it works perfectly with my old HP LaserJet printer for allowing my iOS/iPadOS devices to print to it.

This micro computer has built-in Ethernet and Wi-Fi capabilities. As such you would connect your laser printer to it by Ethernet, and then, access it for printing by Wi-Fi.

There are a number of outfits out there that sell these as kits to make setup easy.

Thank you for the information.

The SP 201N has USB and Ethernet ports. Whether connected locally or via a network, the problem appears to be that this printer needs a host-based DDST (GDI) driver, which works with Windows. No direct such solution is available for Linux or Mac.

A quick web search seems to indicate that there is a Linux (Raspberry Pi) DDST workaround for an SP 204SN through some kind of special CUPS enabler for older SP 100 series printers. Whether something similar can be done with the SP 201N is an open question.

You're welcome. See also the valuable information provided by Tesserax. Good luck!

Thank you for the update. Just curious, which exact Ricoh printer model?

By the way, it is interesting to note that there are Mac DDST and Linux GDI printer drivers for the SP 221 series. It makes one wonder if these could somehow be used for other models as well.