Wireless Printing - Comments Page 8

This is how I set my 5 hardwired computers to print from one printer however for wireless as soon as you unplug your cat5 and use wireless you cannot access the shared printer. used to work a few years ago but after thousands of windows updates now wireless sharing apparently doesn't work.

Bob, Currently I have a wired (ethernet 100baseT) network printer. My network has both wifi 'g' and wired. The printer is not a 'wireless' printer. I need to move it where I cannot wire it (cat5). I do not wish to go USB. What device can I get that will wirelessly bridge to the printer? Basically, I am looking to have two wired segments that are connected wirelessly. Does anybody make this 'bridging' product?

EDITOR'S NOTE: Mike, you need a Wireless Print Server. Check at TigerDirect or other online retails.

After following Bob's explicit instructions and the instructions provided by HP for my Officejet Pro L7500 series [all-in-one] printer, I still cannot print from my laptop.
While the little printer icon is shown in the notification bar with the comment "1 document pending for Ursula" nothing happens at the printer! what now? any suggestions? I'm at my wit's end.

Bob: I was set up for wireless printing from my Laptop using my base computer in the network. It worked fine and now has stopped printing. (Troubleshooting was no help) Since I last printed from the Laptop I have downloaded Microsoft updates, (including MS Suite) and added a new Virus program (Avast). I confirmed that something was changed in one of thoses processes by doing "restore" to an earlier date and being able to print. I don't know how to trouble shoot to fix since I did not set up. Any ideas?

EDITOR'S NOTE: I would try removing Avast, to see if that fixes the problem. If so, try AVG or Avira instead.

thanks. you gave great directions for connecting to my network printer. it made it easy.

We have a desktop computer(Windows XP) hooked up to a HP printer. We just got a wireless laptop
(Windows Vista) we would like to use with the same printer. What would be the best, what would be the easiest, and what would be the most cost effective way to do that?

Thanks heaps for this article. Had no idea how to do this before but followed your instructions and was set up and printing in 5 minutes! Thanks for the easy to follow instructions and the pictures were a big help too.

Worked like a charm!
Thanks!

The printer I'm trying to network is connected to a desktop pc. I've been able to find the printer on my mac laptop, and it even lets me print to it & says that the job is compete, but it never actually prints. Somewhere there is a disconnect. Suggestions??

Thanks for the great article. I followed it all step by step and it worked great!!

Thanks again

I am accessing the internet through wireless. Do I need a wireless printer, or can I use my existing printer that is not hooked up to any desktop computer? Thanks.

Hi Bob, Thanks so much for providing such a wealth of information! I found you because I wanted to set up a network to print wireless. Following your instructions to a T - - - my HP Officejet Pro L7700 won't print without my USB. Please don't laugh when I ask this question, how do I know if my printer is capable of wireless printing? Thanks again,

Thanks for the article; I have a pc that I'd like to wirelessly print to my HP 7300 that is connected to our mac; I donwloaded Bonjour and all looked like it was set...except I received an error suggesting I don't have "sufficient access to my computer to connect to the selected printer"...I made sure printer on mac said "shared"...what am I missing?

Thanks for the article, I followed your instruction step for step and it was like taking candy from a baby

Hi Bob. I have a situation similar to Laura above. "I am accessing the internet through wireless. Do I need a wireless printer, or can I use my existing printer that is not hooked up to any desktop computer?" I didn't see a posted response, but am hoping to be able to do the same thing.

EDITOR'S NOTE: I think you're needlessly associating the issues of internet access and printing. If you have a WIRELESS connection to the Internet, you can have EITHER a wired or wireless printer attached to your computer. Similarly, if you have a WIRED connection to the Internet, you can have EITHER a wired or wireless printer attached to your computer. Of course this assumes you have a router with wireless capability. Just think of the wireless connection as an invisible cable and things should become clearer.

Another related thought... if you're asking about connecting your printer directly to the network router (instead of to a computer) then see my article on Wireless Print Servers. http://askbobrankin.com/wireless_print_server.html

I am setting up to print over wireless network from my laptop to home PC (where the printer is connected)I get to the point to search for the printer from my laptop and it will show Microsoft Windows Network but no printers are listed. I did enable my office PC to share the printer connected to it. What am I doing wrong?

EDITOR'S NOTE: Did you make sure both computers are using the same network name? You might also try temporarily disabling firewalls.

My printer is connected via usb cable to my main Desktop Pc. I seem to only be able to print to the printer from a laptop wirelessly, when the main PC has someone logged onto it. It used to work, irrespective of being loged on or not, provided it WAS switched on. I note now that when I log on to the main PC, the internet connection icon says 'acquiring network address', which I'm sure it didn't used to do? I suspect a windows security update or something?

Any help, gratefully recieved.

Hello Bob, Like Jerry's issue - 22 Sep 2009, I'm having the same issue. I have confirmed that the network names are the same. One problem I do have is that I'm using a company laptop, and i don't believe I have acces to temporarily disable firewalls. Could you provide instructions on how to do this and/or is there another thing that can be tried to get this fixed? Thanks Andy

I was trying to get my wife's wireless laptop to print off my office printer..I tried for about two hours with no luck. Searched google and found your site..great site by the way!

Well your instructions on how to use my desktop's printer via the wireless router from her laptop worked as far as seeing the printer on my desktop but would not print a testpage, even though it showed up on her taskbar print que..Hmm I thought..its gotta be the port.

So I spent around 3 hours looking in the routers setup for IP info and finally when I was about to quit, I tried changing the port from TCP/IP to USB001 and BAM - the darn thing shot out 4 test pages..I then printed an image from her laptop and walla..thanks to you I got it working

Bottom line: If the printer is connected to the desktop via usb cable select the USB001 port. If its connected to the back of the router select the tcp/ip port and so on. Hope this helps someone.

I have tried for many days to add my printer , which is connected to desktop computer, in the ways you provided above in order to have it print wireless documents from my laptop. I do not know but i may have added and changed things around too much that your simple instructions just do not work. It only works if i physically have to go to my desktop computer detach the USB connected printer and connect it to laptop. ITS getting really annoying. PLEASE help.