Printer Connected To Wireless Router Does Not Print
Mar 23, 2008
i am trying to make a wireless connection from my sony vaio laptop, running vista business, to a printer (canon pixma ip4300) connected via usb to the print server of my wireless router (siemens gigaset SE551). i installed the printer as a 'local' printer on a tcp/ip address, as per the router manual - admittedly, the manual instructions were for winxp.
the problem: the printer comes up in vista as 'offline', cannot be changed to online, and won't print. documents appear in the print queue but do not print out - only sometimes when i restart the computer, the printer prints out a page or two of whatever the last failed job was. the same wireless setup with my old sony xp pro laptop works perfectly, and the printer works when connected to the vista laptop directly via usb cable, so the problem must be vista... i've turned off win defender and win firewall to no avail.
should i install the printer as a network printer? i have tried this but windows couldn't see the printer - it could see the router, but not the printer connected to it. but i've never setup a networked printer before so maybe there is something simple i'm missing.
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Jul 29, 2009
I have a new Vista 64-bit computer. Connected to the Vista computer is an HP F4820 Desk Jet printer. My Vista computer connects to the internet via a wireless connection. In another room in the house, we have an XP computer. It, too, connects
to the internet and home network via the wireless connection. When I got the Vista 'puter and the new printer, and hooked them up, the XP computer was able to print. It took some hoop-and-fire jumping to get it to do so, but it did.
My DVD/CD burner died and I had to kill my computer at the instruction of Dell (grrr), which created more problems than it was worth given that I already knew it was a harddrive problem. BUT, anyway, now my XP cannot print........
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I have a Dell desktop computer & a Aser laptop, both running Vista Home Premium. I have a HP Officejet 6110 all-in-one printer. I also have a wireless router. From the desktop computer I can print just fine but I cannot print from my laptop. I have tried Adding a New Printer. It runs through all the steps. I have tried selecting "use an existing port" and when that didn't work I started over and chose "create a new port". Both times it looks like it is going to work. At the end you can choose to print a test page." However, it never actually prints a test page. I do not get any sort of error. If I go to file, print, it shows my hp6110 listed and it is highlighted but nothing happens.Can someone tell me exactly what I need to do to be able to print from my laptop? I'm somewhat dense to all the terms and jargin so please be specific.This forum is the only place I have ever been able to come to get answers that really work.
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I have a new Dell computer running Vista Home Premium. My Brother printer prints fine when hooked up via USB. But won't print wirelessly through my router (Airport Express). The computer recognizes the printer wirelessly and has it as "ready." When I send something to print, it starts printing the first few lines and then just stops and won't print the rest. If I try again, nothing happens at all. I have to uninstall and reinstall the printer to get it to do anything. And even then, it won't print more than the first few lines of the document. Had no problems printing wirelessly with this printer and router on my old Dell that ran XP.
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