Connect laptop with wireless printer

connect laptop with wireless printer

Umm, that's a little less information than we would like to be able to help you. Could you provide your MacBook model, printer, OS X version maybe?

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How do I find the name or url of my hp color laserjet cp2025 printer on my wireless home network? I want to connect my Sony Vaio running Windows XP for wireless printing, but I can't identify the printer correctly to the laptop.

It appears this is a commercial grade printer. It would be best to post in the commercial forums.
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Connection problems with wireless printer

Unable to connect my hp officejet wireless printer to my computer now.

What is your Cisco / Linksys home device? What steps have you undertaken to troubleshoot the issue? What errors have you encountered?
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HT3500 How to connect iphone with wireless printer

I have HP 8600 plus printer which is wireless connected. I need to print from iphone/ipad and would like to know how to give command from iphone/ipad to print or first detect a printer and print

Not sure of the specifics of your network/computers, I use Airprint Activator on my Mac which offers up any installed printer on the network as an 'Airprint' printer which iphones/ipads can see.
http://netputing.com/airprintactivator/airprint-activator-v2-0/
I'm not sure if a PC solution exists for this.

I have problem with wireless print HP after iOS 7 !? What can i do

I have problem with wireless print HP after iOS 7 !? What can i do?!

Tap Settings / General / Reset / Reset Network Settings if your having a problem with your network. If you have another problem go to the same place in "Reset" and just reset all settings

HP C6180 not responding with wireless print from Mac OS X 10.9

My Printer does not work with wireless printing from my Macbook Air OS X 10.9
I tried all the normal stuff I can find.
The text that is there is: The Printer is not responding.

Hi XavierMaassen,
I understand you have a Photosmart C6180 that you're having issues using in Mac 10.9. I'm sorry to hear this has been happening, but I will certainly do my best to assist you.
I'm wondering how you installed the printer. If you had it installed prior to upgrading to 10.9 that could be part of the problem. There are currently no HP drivers available for this printer for 10.9, so you need to uninstall the HP software and install the printer via the Apple updates. Once you do that you should be able to print normally and scan using 3 different methods.
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My mac has stopped connecting to the wireless printer. However both the mac and the printer indicate that they are connected. What can I do to correct this issue?

my mac has stopped connecting to the wireless printer. However both the mac and the printer indicate that they are connected. What can I do to correct this issue?

Maybe this???
Mac OS X: About the Reset Printing System feature ...
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1341?viewlocale=en_US
10.5/10.6/10.7/10.8 instructions...
In System Preferences>Fax & Print, Right click or Control+click on the Printers list Sidebar, choose Reset Printing System.
if you hold option and click the "-" tab it resets the printing system.
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20031215144430486
Safe Boot from the HD, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions.
Any devices that previously appeared in your Printer List and Fax List will need to be added again after resetting the printing system.
Resetting the printing system in Mac OS X 10.5.x+++
    1.    To use the Reset Printing System feature in Mac OS X 10.5.x, follow these steps:
    2.    Choose System Preferences from the Apple menu.
    3.    Choose Print & Fax from the View menu.
    4.    Control-click on list of printers on the left side of the window, then choose "Reset printing system" from the contextual menu. If you don't see a list of printers, Control-click on the text "Click + to add a printer or fax" and select "Reset printing system..."       As an alternative, if you currently have one or more printers listed, you can Option-click the "-" (Remove printer) button.
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1341
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How to connect to my wireless printer to a PC workgroup?

It wont let me connect to the workgroup

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Problems with wireless printing to an HP-3845

This HP-3845 printer works when connected directly to our PC (XP w/SP2) and Acer laptop with VISTA. When it is connected to our Apple Airport Extreme, you can print from the PC (Ethernet wired)with no problem, but you cannot print wirelessly from the laptop. Sometimes on the laptop, when a Word document is selected, it seems to either not print, or print several hours later. When you print a "Test Page" from the LT printer control panel, it will usually start to print immediately, but will hang-up at the end of the text, and not eject the page. I have read a lot of the threads and went to tech.ifekix.net for a new driver, but could not find one. Is this printer supported by the airport extreem?

differnet problems (i occasionally get gibberish or PS errors), but seems to have correlated w installing 10.5.2

Can I use a USB Lead to connect PC with my Printer instead of the network connection?

I have recently moved my BT home Hub (wireless modem) from my study where it sat beside my printer, into the living room downstairs. So that it’s A, nearest to the BT access point (less loss) and B, it can connect directly to my TV, Blu-ray & BT Vision box. I have used a pair of Powerline adaptors to connect the home hub back to my HP PC and it’s all working very well with a faster broadband speed reaching my PC.
The only problem I now have is with my printer, which connects wirelessly to the home hub.
The printer is now right on the edge of the wireless range and really struggles to make a connection, sometimes failing altogether. The printer takes a long while to start up and sometimes fails to collect all of the data.
My real question is:
Can I simply connect my PC to the printer using a USB cable (USB A to USB B) and if I do, do I need to make any other changes to the way my PC connects with the printer?
Printer
HP Photosmart 6510e
PC
HP Pavilion HPE H8-1150UK
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No problem. Here's the link for the download for your operating system. Click Here When I sent my first post, I wasn't sure which operating system you were using.
Here's something you might try first before you do the download. You can leave the current drivers installed ( might come in handy if you decide to reconnect to the network ). Click on your Start button, and then select All Programs. Scroll down to the HP folder and open it. Then open the folder for the Photosmart 6510. Select Printer Setup and Software. You can go through the installation process as you did before, but this time you will choose usb connection.
Let me know what happens.
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HP Director won't work with Wireless Print Server

I have an HP 5500 Office Jet all in one. It comes with bundled software called HP Director that enables scanning, printing, and faxing. The software worked fine while I had the printer connected to my pc with a USB cable.
To give myself flexibility I installed a WPSM54G Linksys Wireless G Printserver. There is no direct connection between my printer and pc anymore.
Printing still works fine. This is being handled by the Linksys software.
The HP Director no longer can find the printer. When I try to scan (for example) using HP Director, I get a message that "an error occurred communicating with the printing device...". It presumably is looking for a direct USB connection, and not finding one.
I can't find a fix on the HP site, but I imagine there must be one. Wireless print servers have been around for quite a while. Is there a download that will solve this problem?
Thanks for your help.

Hi JoJoh,
I can't be of much help with the printer but I just checked my "Pages" and my version number is 4.0.2. I'm using iWork 09. Perhaps you need to update? I just checked the "Snow Leopard Compatible" site and found "Apple Pages 4.0.2" is compatible. It didn't mention 1.0.2. I'm so sorry. That's pretty rough when it's how you make your living.
As for the printer, I have an HP Photosmart C4580 which wouldn't print. I finally just deleted all the printers on my MacBook and used my Snow Leopard install disk and selected the "Optional Install" which allowed me to just reinstall the printers. My HP is now working fine. I do feel like this is just a work-around until HP gets things sorted out. I say that because even though my HP now works, the only place it shows up is in my users folder. It's not in my Applications folder, but as long as it works for now, I don't care.
Hope I was of some help to you. Best of luck!

HP C309a set-up with wireless print server

My HP C309a wireless radio no longer seems to work (run diagnostics, reset to factor defaults, etc, over and over without luck), so now I'm trying to set it up with a Linksys Wireless-G print server (WPS54G). I've gone thru all of the linksys print server set-up steps, but the wireless connection fails. I turned off the wireless radio on the printer, but are there other steps I need to take to get the wireless print server to work with this printer? Thanks.

Have you reset the printer - turn it off, hold # and 6 keys while turning back on. This can sometimes reset the wireless radio....sometimes not.
Honestly, I don't know a lot about wireless print servers other than they are hard to set up and its best if the server and your router are made by the same company - and that they usually only support printing.
Another off the wall option is to use powerline Ethernet (google it). This uses the power lines in your home to transmit Ethernet signals.
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HP psc 1315xi with wireless print server

Printer = HP 1315xi, Wireless Print Server = Linksys WPSM54G. Computer #1 = Windows Vista (64-bit), Computer #2 = iMac using OSX.
I set up the Windows Vista computer on 198.162.1.101 using the HP 1300 driver listed in the setup. I can only print one document and then printing fails.
I set up the OSX computer on 198.162.1.101 but couldn't find a listed driver that workes. Also, OSX give the ip address as 198.162.1.104. I tried that with no success.
The HP 1315xi works fine on both computers when connected directly via USB
Any ideas on what to try next?
Thanks, Ira

Update - I have gotten the printer to work under Parallels once I assigned it to an LPR queue. Still no progress on the Mac side

Connecting to a wireless print server, please help!!!

i have a canon mp500 connected to a network through a wireless printserver and wireless router. the printer works when directly connected to my macbook, but not when connected to the print server. i contacted linksys and they sent a docment on how to set the printer up using it's ip address. still didn't work (the instructions were for 10.1 and 10.2). i have downloaded and installed the current mac os x drivers from the canon website with no luck. please help

I'm no expert, but I was able setup HP printer connected wirelessly to AEBS by using Apple's Printer Setup Utility and Bonjour. I was, however, able to install the HP drivers using the software that came with the printer, but it sounds like you could not do so with Canon?
Anyway, here are Apple's help files for adding an IP printer:
"Connecting to an IP printer
An IP printer is a network printer that uses TCP/IP protocols (such as LPD/LPR, IPP, or Socket or Jet Direct) to communicate with your computer. If the IP printer you want to use is not listed when you print, you can add it to your list of available printers.
To add an IP printer, you need to know its IP address or DNS name. See your network administrator for assistance.
Open the document to print, and choose File > Print.
Choose Add Printer from the Printer pop-up menu, and click IP Printer in the dialog that appears.
Choose the appropriate printing protocol from the Protocol pop-up menu.
Type the IP address or DNS name for the printer in the Address field.
If your printer requires it, type the queue name for your printer in the Queue Name field. If you don't know the queue name, see your network administrator for assistance.
Enter a name and location for the printer, so you can identify it in the Printer pop-up menu.
If the Print Using pop-up menu does not display the name of your printer's model, choose the item appropriate for your printer from the Print Using pop-up menu, and then select your printer in the Model Name list.
Click Add.
Usually, your computer can detect whether a printer has special accessories installed, such as additional paper trays, extra memory, or a duplex unit. If it can't, a dialog appears that lets you specify them. Make sure the settings in that dialog accurately reflect your printer's installed accessories so you can take full advantage of them."

Trouble connecting laptop to wireless

I have a wag54gs installed and a wireless adaptor on main pc. Had trouble with security and could only use laptop wireless with security dissabled. Ive had some help regarding security its all set up again and wireless is working on main pc. Laptop however wont connect now on wireless, says aquiring address or limited /no connectivity but works fine if i attach the ethernet cable and use security. Tried checking setting are the same but must be missing something., probably something simple. Any help would be appreciate.

OPEN YOUR VIEW WIRELESS NETWORKS , YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO SEE YOUR WIRELESS CONNECTION DISCONNECT IT AND RECONNECT! YOUR ROUTER MIGHT BE WEP ENCYPTED SO YOU WILL NEED YOUR KEY1 THAT YOU CAN FIND ON THE ROUTER INFO, BY TYPING : 192.168.1.1 ON YOUR INTERNET WEB BROWSER!

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