Wireless Printing Set Up for HP Printer

Hey everybody, I am trying to set up a HP Officejet J6480 Printer on a wireless network, and the instructions that come with the printer are giving me nothing but problems. Does anybody have any instructions on how to set up this printer that are better then the junk ones that came with the machine?
Thanks!

I have exactly that printer. I would say that the setup of the printer and wireless went surprisingly smoothly (I have bad experiences with HP), but I agree that the instructions are confusing. What I did was inserting the disk and following the instructions there. Here are some hints that may be helpful
I first set it up on a MacBook running Tiger. I just used the supplied CD and followed the instructions and it worked smoothly. Two points of confusion
- The getting started guide says to install the software first, and then connect the printer, but the wireless setup guide states to connect the printer first and then install software (for Macs). I opted for the latter, and that worked out.
- The instructions says to add the printer to the printer setup utility. However, it was already there. I decided to add it again. The documentation says to add it using "HP IP printing." The closest was on option saying "hpip," and that worked.
I then set it up on a MacBook Air running Leopard. Again it when smoothly, except for some point of confusion.
- The documentation does not explicitly say how to set up a second computer. Do you connect it through USB at first again? It turned out that once it's set up as a wireless printer, it shows up as a "bonjour" wireless printer on additional computers, and one just has to choose that to set it up.
- I tried to press the button for "printer setup utility" to add the printer at the appropriate point in the installation process, and nothing happened. After some web research I found out that Leopard does not have a "printer setup utility" but instead has that functionality as part of the system preferences.

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