HOW TO INSTALL A WIRELESS PRINTER

Wireless printers are becoming popular nowadays because of their easy to share feature and ease of portability. How do you install a wireless printer ? Well, all the information is provided here for your perusal. The installation of wireless printers will go smoothly in case you have all the details about the wireless network and follow the installation process for the printer in question.

Manual Install a wireless printer #

The installation software of the printer usually takes care of the firewall settings and IP address. But if you are going to install it manually, here are things that you must know:

IP address : Every device has an IP address. Usually the router that you have, assigns an IP address by DHCP. There are two ways in which you can ensure that your printer has the same IP address every time. The first way is to assign a static IP address of the printer through the control panel. Some routers allow you to reserve the IP addresses for the printer on the basis of the MAC address. This approach comes with an advantage, namely that the IP address of the printer can be viewed when you view the DHCP table.

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