APPLE RECOMMENDED WIRELESS PRINTERS HOW TO
All the comments here assume that you either stayed with the most common settings or know what changes you made, and know how to adjust the installation procedure to accommodate them.
APPLE RECOMMENDED WIRELESS PRINTERS INSTALL
Similarly, if you set the access point to connect only with devices with specific MAC addresses, you'll have to enter the printer's MAC address in the list before you install it. For example if you turned off DHCP, which automatically assigns IP addresses, you'll have to assign the printer an IP address manually. You should also know about any other settings that you changed from the most common choices. Key information you may need to know, so you can enter it during the printer setup, are the network's SSID (its name), the network password if it has one (which it should), and, assuming there is a password, which security protocol your network uses (WEP, WPA, or WPA2). Virtually any Wi-Fi printer will support this mode.įor purposes of this discussion, we'll assume that either you set up the network yourself and are familiar with its settings, especially its security settings, or you can easily contact someone who can give you the information. If you have a network with an access point, both it and every other Wi-Fi device on the network should already be set for infrastructure mode. The idea is that all the Wi-Fi devices on your network connect through the access point. Infrastructure mode requires a Wi-Fi access point, usually built into a router. Let's start with an access point.Īny Wi-Fi device, including a printer, can support one or more of three different Wi-Fi modes-infrastructure, ad hoc, and Wi-Fi Direct. The three choices are a Wi-Fi access point on a network, one or more individual computers directly, or a smartphone or tablet.
The steps for connecting a printer by Wi-Fi depend in large part on what you want to connect to. The combination should give you a fighting chance of getting your wireless printer to connect even when the process doesn't run smoothly. Our goal instead is to cover the key information you need along with strategies for troubleshooting problems you may run into. That makes it impossible to cover all the variations in any detail in one short article.