How To Connect Hp Printer To Wifi Successfully With Ease?

Connecting a wired printer is easy. By just the suitable cable, plug one end into the printer and the other into a computer or network. But Connecting a wireless printer is not easy. It is more complicated than plugging in a cable.

One thing that there is more than one type of wireless printing, like Bluetooth enabled printers, wireless printers, and IrDA (infrared) connections. However, when most people talk about wireless printers, they mean Wi-Fi printers, which is mostly we focus on here.

There are multiple ways to connect an HP wireless printer, and for each basic type of connection, the steps vary depending on the particular printer. So, that makes it very hard to cover all the variations in any detail in one short topic.

The steps for connecting an HP printer by Wi-Fi

It depends in large part on what you want to connect, which is a Wi-Fi access point on a network, one or more individual computers directly, or a smartphone or tablet. Now start with an access point. Any Wi-Fi device, including a printer, can support one or more of three different Wi-Fi modes (infrastructure), virtual and, Wi-Fi Direct.

Infrastructure mode requires a WiFi access point, mainly built into a router. Basically, all the WiFi devices on your network connections through the access point. If you have a network with an access point, other WiFi devices on the network should already be set for infrastructure mode. Virtually any HP WiFi printer will support this mode.

Here topic purpose, we will assume that either you set up the network yourself and are familiar with its settings, mainly its security settings, key information you may need to know, so you can use it during the HP printer setup, are the network's SSID (name), the network password if it has one, which security protocol your network uses (WEP, WPA, or WPA2).

You should know about any other settings that you previously applied. like if you turned off DHCP, which automatically assigns IP addresses, you will have to assign the HP printer an IP address manually. if you set the access point to connect only with their specific MAC addresses, you will have to enter the printer's MAC address before installing it.

Connecting to an Access Point

The driver you install that computer should already be connected to the entire network, so setting up the printer by just a few steps, establishing the WiFi connection between the printer and network, and installing the driver so it knows how to send a print to the HP printer.

Establishing a Wi-Fi connection depends on the printer. Mainly you will find a setup wizard to process each set, asking you to enter the network (SSID) Service Set Identifier, and you will find separate menu options that you will have to choose and fill. The driver installation program on the disc that came with the printer has the information, typically telling you to connect by USB cable to send the settings to the printer. If you connected the printer using the installation program, now continue to install the driver. If you used the printer menus to set up the connection, run the installation program and tick WiFi as the connection option.

Note, if you already have the driver installed, and printing by USB cable, reinstalling it from the driver source is usually the easiest option to set it to print over the WiFi connection.

Connecting Directly

Depending on the HP printer that you may or not be able to connect it directly to another WiFi device for wireless printing. Connecting directly requires either the virtual or WiFi Direct.

If your HP printer doesn't support either mode, and your computer doesn't support Wi-Fi Direct, connecting without an access point isn't an option. If the printer offers virtual mode, something you'll have to check with the manuals, you have a virtual network, you can basically connect much the same way as you would connect to an access point, by inputting the SSID and other details through the printer menus, and then installing the driver on the same computer. See the printer manual for step by step details.

Smartphones and Tablets

Connecting a printer directly by smartphone or tablet can be hard, cause printer manufacturers may not offer a printing app for any phone set or tablet. Even if there is an app for your printer, you may not be able to connect the HP printer directly to your mobile device. Mainly, you'll have to connect both to an access point and print that way, or, as with HP ePrint Home & Biz app, print some files through the access point and others by going through a cloud-based print utility.

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