Setting Up Your Wireless Network Printer

Brian Roberts — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 23:45:05 +0000

Did you ever realize that you weren’t the only one who couldn’t figure out a wireless network printer? Reputedly, two thirds of all office employees in this country consider it so difficult to access and set up a print job on a wireless network printer that they just abandon the thought and try to use alternatives – like a wired printer. And many people in an office, even if they do know perfectly well how to configure wireless, just don’t do it because they know that once their printer is set up for wireless printing, they’ll have their colleagues coming in “for just a second and just one document”. It doesn’t really have to be like this. A wireless network printer can easily do the job of several wired printers – a great way to keep a little more garbage out of landfills one day. Let’s take a little look at how you would configure a printer over WiFi. You don’t have to worry – almost all wireless network printer installations work as smoothly as wired ones.

All you need is to make sure that when you actually install a printer, that you follow the installation process the printer manual sets out to a tee. In general, this is what you need to know.

Let’s say that you have an office network that’s already up and running. You basically need two items of information to sign your printer into the network – the name of the network (or it’s SSID), and the key or password for the network if it is a secured one (as it probably is). Setting up your printer, it might be a good idea to connect it to a PC on the network by means of a USB cable first. It should make the whole software installation process a whole lot more simple. Once you’re done with this initial software installation though, you can pretty much place your printer anywhere in the office where it can capture a signal. Certainly, you will need to be aware of how certain kinds of walls or pillars can interrupt you signal.

Many printers these days come with LCD control panels. If yours has one of these, you’ll probably find configuring your wireless connection gets a whole lot easier. Your printer will automatically detect all the networks that are within range and ask you to log on. This would be the automated installation method. You could also use CD-based automated installation method. You could choose to connect your printer to the computer through an ethernet cable to and configure everything with a web browser.

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Setting Up Your Wireless Network Printer