MacBook Air can't find my printer

Let me preface this by first stating that I am not technically savvy. Turning a computer on and off is about it for me. So I just purchased the HP 6835, took it out of the box and have been attempting to set it up. Everything appears to work fine by my Macbook Air can't find the printer. I've been trying to get this to find it for hours, reading almost everything. I then looked at the box it came in and it reads on the box that this Printer Supports OSX v10.9 Mavericks. My Macbook Air is running OSX Yosemite v10.10.3, is this why my Macbook can't locate the printer? If this is not the answer, any ideas would be great. Thanks, David

The printer shows up as its own wireless network in the list of networks
It shouldn't.
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