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I believe that Justus answer is incorrect and looks to be AI Produced. The SSID WPS PIN number is on the Router not on the printer. You tell the router to search for the printer, and you tell the printer to look for the Router. When they find each other, the Printer will ask you to enter the SSID and WPS Password that is on the Router. This is the way I did my Canon MG7120 to a Bell Home Hub Router. The process is the same setting up my iPhones for WiFi.
can the laptop get on the internet? that tells me you're still connected to the router. how is your printer connected? through the router directly (or wireless) or do you share the printer from your desktop (your desktop must stay on in order to print from the laptop.
You cannot set the printer up directly on the router as the router needs to have a driver to understand how to use the printer. If you have a wireless printer, you need to enter a wireless key on the printer, you'll have to do that from the printer interface (you didn't list your printer model so i'm not sure how exactly you do that). On my wireless printer there is a nice network setup menu on the touch screen display.
Then you have to install the full drivers for the printer and tell it the printer is connected wirelessly and it looks for it and finds its IP address and allows you to connect to it.
If you do not have a wireless printer, and need to print wirelessly, you will need to buy a print server.
Setting up wireless printers can be such a hassle!
The quickest solution is to let the router sync the mac address itself, don't worry about the details of it all. Easiest way is to start wired, before you go wireless.
When setting up the printer to work with that wireless router, hook your printer up directly to the router/computer the router is connected to. This will allow for the printer/router to recognize each other and establish a connection. Then, when you use a wireless connection (wireless on laptop/ on printer also), they will recognize each other and you'll be able to connect.
This is much less of a hassle than trying to set up wirelessly.
Best of luck!
go into control panel and printers right click on the printer and click share, then go onto the laptop and add printer and tell it its a network printer and search for it then once you have done that you can print from your laptop
Consider temporarily disabling Windows Firewall,
Norton Firewall, ZoneAlarm or any other firewall, as part of troubleshooting network printer problems. If your computer doesn't see the printer, the firewall must be blocking it.
The IP address is assigned by your router using a process called DHCP. Go into your router management using a browser and look for the table listing all connected devices. You will see the printer IP address there.
If you're not sure how to access your router, tell us what make and model router you have and we should be able to walk you thru the process.
There should be one for the USB and one for the LAN then. The one you need is the LAN port, it should look like a telephone jack, but it will have 8 pins instead of 4 like the phone jack. Just plug a normal LAN cable into it, and hook the other end to any of the loose LAN ports in the Router, just as if it was a normal computer. Then refer to the manual that came with the printer to acces the LAN options, cause in many cases you will need to tell the printer what IP address to use so that the computer can see it. If you did not change the setting in your D-Link Router, then the adress range will need to be in the 192.168.0.* range. The router itself has the address 192.168.0.1 and your computers will usually have an address like 192.168.0.100 and up. So as long as the printer has an address that starts with 192.168.0 and that it has not the same address as any of the computers or router in the network, it will be fine. Of course, you cannot go past 255 though in the address, and it is the last valid number you can give, so best bet to have it seen by everything and not have it interfere with a new computer you might add or anything, just tell it to use address 192.168.0.255 and you should be fine for a while. Now all you need to do is to go into the printers setup on the computers you it to work with and add a new printer. Tell the setup wizard to look for printers connected of the LAN and it should find it and install it by itself from there. Voila, now you have a working LAN printer.
Connect one end of an ethernet cable into the ethernet port on the printer and the other one into a free port on the router. Then, using the install CD, tell it that you are attaching a printer on the network. The software should automatically detect the printer on the network and set itself up for it.
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