HP laserjet printer P1102W not allowing to connect to mac OS 10.8

Question

i recently purchased an HP laserjet printer P1102W and am having issues connecting to my mountain lion macbook pro.  any suggestions?

Answer 1

I had a very difficult time getting the P1102W working wirelessly on a macbook pro with Mountain Lion, however I finally got it to work after countless hours of troubleshooting. I was able to successfully connect the printer to my wireless network WITHOUT having to perform an Ad Hoc wireless first as HP suggests in their support forums.
Here are the steps as accurately as I can remember:
1) Turn the printer off
2) Press and hold both the wireless and the cancel  button, and then turn the product on
3) Hold the buttons until all the lights blink in unison, and then release the buttons.
4) Connect printer using USB cable & power on.
5) Check for apple software update from the App store. It will find and install an update for HP printers
6) Download and install the full software from HP, including the firmware update. here: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareDownloadIndex?softwareitem=bi-80684-8 &cc=us&dlc=en&lc=en&os=219&product=4110396&sw_lang=
7) Open System Presferences in Mounatin Lion, select Print & Scan.
8) Make sure the P1102W printer is selected and Open Print Queue
9) Click Settings, then click Utility, then Open Printer Utility
10) Select Configuration page. This will bring up Safari and displays the printer's settings and this is where you can change the configuration. 
From this point, whenever I made changes to the netowrking configuration using Safari and clicked Apply, the changes would not "stick", no matter how many times I tried.  So, I thought it may be an incompatability with Safari, and sure enough it was.  I downloaded Google's Chrome browser, pasted http://localhost:5050/SSI/Auth/ip_direct_print.htm into the address bar and hit return on the keyboard. The changes I made using Chrome applied successfully and I connected to my home's wireless.
Specifically:
11) Paste http://localhost:5050/SSI/Auth/ip_direct_print.htm into Chrome and hit return on the keyboard. It will load the printer Config page.
12) You may already be under Wireless Direct Setup, if not, select Networking, then Wireless Direct Setup.
13) Select your network name, use the << button to move it over to the other window.
14) For Authentication, selecte watever your network uses (propably WPA2) and enter password. Apply.
You will see the Blue light on the top of the printer turn on, flash and then go solid.
15) Disconnect the USB cable
You can now print wirelessly from your Mac, ipad or iphone running IOS5 or 6.
I hope that helps compensate for HP's lack of support using Mountain Lion.