I've been "looking for printer" for four years.

Hi everyone,
I decided to bite the bullet and make a forum post before giving in to my frustration and chucking the thing out the window... I am running OS 10.6.8 on a mid-2008 MacBook and have an HP Photosmart C4385 all-in-one wirelessly connected. Well, connected is perhaps too strong a term. It works great about 50% of the time, and the other 50% I spend trying to coax my computer to find it. When I go to print something I get the "Looking for printer... Printer offline" message. I've been all over the HP site (you can imagine how helpful that was) and, as suggested, tried printing a config page and typing the printer's URL into the browser, but the page doesn't load. Here are some of the specs from the config page:
IP Address: 169.254.xxx.xxx
Subnet Mask: 255.255.0.0
Default Gateway: 0.0.0.0
Configuration Source: AutoIP
From some other sources it sounds like the AutoIP is the problem, but I can't find a way to set a fixed IP. I don't have access to the wireless router but this problem has stayed with me through two dorm rooms and two apartments, all with different wifi setups. Is there anything I can do?

This not intended as a solution to the IP issue, but as a possible solution to the printing problem. Why not connect your Macbook to the printer with a USB cable? That way there is no inaccessible router to deal with.

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