Can you connect multiple computers to one printer without a router?

For example, we have two laptops and a wireless printer all in the same network address range. Could the two laptops print without a router/switch, you'd be printing from a TCP/IP port to the printer?

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That's how you use network printers, but you would need a switch to connect more than one machine to print from.