Trying to get laptop to use printer hooked up to my PC.

Question

i have a Hp pavilion g7-1227nr laptop and a HP photosmart C5580 printer. i have downloaded every HP solution for the printer but nothing will let me print from my laptop (wireless)  to the printer that is hooked up to my PC. Both of my children have HP laptops and they cannot get their laptops to print to the printer either. Any suggestions?

Answer 1

Hi sonewald1,
hope you are doing well and sorry to learn that you are having this issue.
Have you shared the  printer in your network? you have to do this in order to be able to use the printer from other computers unless you have a router that is capable of been used as a printer server which you can check on your router's owner manual.  
Follow this; 
Click on Start in the bottom left corner of your screen. A popup list will appear.
Select Control Panel from the popup list. Type the word network in the search box.
Click on Network and Sharing Center.
Click on Change advanced shared settings, in the left pane.
Click on the down arrow, which will expand the network profile.
Select File and printer sharing and choose Turn on file and printer sharing.
Click on Save changes.
You're now ready to share your printer.
Click on Start in the bottom left corner of your screen. A popup list will appear.
Click on Devices and Printers, from the popup list.
Right click the printer you want to share. A dropdown list will appear.
Select Printer properties from the dropdown list.
Click on the Sharing tab
Select the Share this printer check box.
In order for other people to connect to the printer, they just have to add the network printer that you just opened for sharing to their computers. Here's how to do this.
Click on Start in the bottom left corner of your screen. A popup list will appear.
Click on Devices and Printers from the popup list.
Select Add a printer.
Click on Add a network, wireless or Bluetooth printer.
Click the shared printer.
Click Next. Continue according to the instructions on the screen [source: Microsoft].
 Hope it helps; 
RobertoR
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