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Not every computer or network configuration is compatible with the HP Auto Wireless Connect method. In those cases, an alternate wireless setup method will contribute. For becoming compatible with HP Auto Wireless Connect, the following conditions must satisfy:
Reminder: Settings may be entered by touching a wrench icon, depending on your product model.
In some instances, the software may automatically discover your wireless settings for you. For connecting your wireless printer with your wireless router utilizing USB setup of wireless, proceed to Installing Printer Software.
To guarantee that you have the latest software, we recommend that you download software for your HP printer and computer. Make sure you pick the software that endeavors for both your computer OS and your Hp Support Assistant printer model. The computer on which you are installing the printer software must connect with the same network that you connect with the printer.
If you have already connected the printer to your network and are currently installing the software, the printer will discover automatically within the installation process. Mark that the computer you are installing the software on must connect to the same network as the printer.
Sometimes the software has trouble locating the printer over the network. If this occurs, you will have an opportunity to do an “advanced search” for the printer utilizing the printer’s assigned IP address. You can also discover the IP address by printing either the Wireless Network Test report or a Network Configuration page. For printers with touch displays, the IP address should get exposed on the screen when the wireless ICON or button is touched.
If this is your printer’s (without a display) first-time installation and you are employing the USB setup of the wireless method, then the software will not be able to detect the printer on the network. You will receive directions by creating a wireless connection for the printer. You will momentarily attach a USB cable between your Hp Support Assistant printer and your PC. Do not connect the USB cable till the software commands you. The computer you are installing the printer software must get connected to the same network in which you are connecting the printer.
You can easily create a wireless network connection directly with your printer without using a wireless router or access point. For this, features are available recognized as HP wireless direct and Wi-Fi Direct.
HP wireless direct and Wi-Fi Direct:- HP wireless direct and Wi-Fi Direct are features that let your Wi-Fi enabled devices (for example- smartphones, tablets, or computers) establish a wireless network connection straight to your printer without adopting a wireless router or access point. You connect to your printer’s Hp Support Assistant wireless direct or Wi-Fi Direct signal, in the same manner, you connect with your Wi-Fi furnished device to a new wireless network or hotspot.
From a computer, smartphone, or tablet viewpoint, being connected to Hp Support Assistant wireless direct or Wi-Fi Direct seems identical as being connected to a conventional wireless network that has the HP printer previously connected. A print application for mobile phones and tablets or a printer software for a computer must get installed for using the printer over the HP wireless direct or Wi-Fi Direct connection.
Neither HP wireless direct nor Wi-Fi Direct can produce an internet connection for the attached devices. However, a Wi-Fi Direct may authorize your mobile device to sustain a simultaneous Wi-Fi connection with the web.
How to connect to HP wireless direct or Wi-Fi Direct?
Execute the following steps to connect your mobile device or computer:
Instance 1: If you have already connected the printer over a network system, have established the printer software on your PC, and have been handling the printer over the network, then perform the following points to print when connected to HP wireless direct or Wi-Fi Direct.
Instance 2: If you have earlier installed and practiced the printer with a USB cord or preferred the “Connect Later” choice from the software during installation, then complete the following steps to utilize the printer over the HP wireless direct or Wi-Fi Direct connection.
Note: Do not choose “Convert a USB connected printer to wireless”.
Following setting up the connection, you will observe two printer icons in the printer’s folder for the Hp Support Assistant printer. The printer icon designated “Network” is the printer driver installed for HP wireless direct or Wi-Fi Direct. If you do not want to print using a USB cable connection, you can delete the HP printer icon other than the “Network” label.
Instance 3: If you have previously installed the printer by using the HP wireless direct or Wi-Fi Direct connection, moreover installed the printer software as well, and you require to manage the printer across a Wi-Fi network with a wireless router.
Choose “Reconfigure wireless settings”. For some printers, you will have to momentarily connect a USB cable linking the printer and the computer. For other printers with big displays, you will get commanded to operate the front panel Wireless Setup Wizard to connect the printer with your wireless network. Once the printer connects to your Wi-Fi network, you can use the printer, and no other software is required.
You can set up your Hp Support Assistant printer with a USB cable connection on a Mac Operating System to get the most supported features from a USB connected printer, install the full feature HP driver.
Monitor requirements to plan for the USB-connection setup and driver installation.
Based on your printer and its operating system version, a full feature driver or the Hp Support Assistant Easy Start supervised installation app is free to download.
Consider: If the Install screen displays, ensure HP Scan or HP Easy Scan gets picked if your printer has a scanner to facilitate full scan functionality.
NOTE: Choosing a distinctive driver from the Use menu can end in insufficient printer functionality.
Security Software installed on your PC is designed to guard your computer against menaces that can occur from outside your network. A security software series can carry different kinds of software such as anti-virus, anti-spyware, firewall, and child protection applications.
Firewalls are dedicated to blocking menaces from outside your network, but can sometimes obstruct interaction between devices on your network and can generate difficulties while utilizing network printers. In addition to your printer security software’s firewall, your operating system plus has a firewall for the corresponding reason.
Some of the most common firewall issues –
Difficulties you might encounter with firewalls incorporate:
How can you identify whether the problem is due to a firewall or not?
A quick problem-solving approach is to deactivate your firewall and check whether or not the problem goes away. Keep in mind to re-activate your firewall before proceeding to follow this method.
If you’re not positive that your computer has a firewall installed, you can download and run the HP Print and Scan Doctor (for Windows operating system only). This utility distinguishes various types of firewalls and can also inform you if there are other reasons for a network issue with your printer.
Firewall troubleshooting tips:-
Basic and best troubleshooting techniques:
A list of best methods that you can adopt to solve most issues related to firewalls presented here. For specific knowledge on your precise firewall settings, you should contact your firewall manufacturer.