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Help Getting Wireless Printet Connection

Pook — Sat, 02 Jul 2016 13:44:20 GMT

We just got an all in one PC and I've been tryng to connect it wirelessly to my Canon Pixma printer. We have an older PC connected to it with a connection. I was never able to get the laptop connected wireless either. I tried with the CD and also with a download from Canon's site but it always ends up giving a workaround by connecting with wire but there can only be one wired connection. Canon CS says I should be able to do it but they just say keep trying. If anyone has any suggestions I sure would appreciate it.

Re: Help Getting Wireless Printet Connection

JollyRancher — Sat, 02 Jul 2016 14:40:55 GMT

Do you have a wireless router setup? If so, have you gone into the printer settings and told it what wireless network to connect to?

Also, if you don't have a wireless router, you won't be able to connect wirelessy. The wireless router essentially "transmits" your home internet connection through the "airwaves" so your other devices can connect.

Re: Help Getting Wireless Printet Connection

glb613 — Sat, 02 Jul 2016 14:58:31 GMT

You need to have the printer find your wireless network and enter the security code to connect. My Canon did that through the menu on the printer itself. Flip up the screen, presse menu and follow the prompts.

Re: Help Getting Wireless Printet Connection

Nuttmeg — Sat, 02 Jul 2016 15:11:57 GMT

You may be able to find help on YouTube. This is a general video of printer install videos. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=how+to+install+a+canon+printer

Please find the install instructions about your printer by includings its model # and name in the search.

You should disconnect everything and start the install again.

I would use the driver software etc from the Canon site.

You need the SSID name of your wireless router and its password to connect to your network.

Re: Help Getting Wireless Printet Connection

Pook — Sat, 02 Jul 2016 16:11:07 GMT

@JollyRancher, @glb613Thanks so much for answering. I have the PC all set up wirelessly. Apparantly I did not get far enough to have to have it connect to my network since when I choose LAN it says press WPS button (not sure what that is but assumed it was the choice that came up on printer) and it takes a long time then I get an error message and it says can connect through wired connection which I can't do as I have another PC connected to it.

Re: Help Getting Wireless Printet Connection

nomless — Sat, 02 Jul 2016 16:20:04 GMT

I can't tell how far you've gotten. Here are the steps you need to do.

- connect the PC to wireless network

- connect the printer to your wireless network. As another poster said, this is done by using the setup menu on the printer. One of the setup option will be for "network" - your verbiage may vary

- install the printer driver on the PC. The driver is probably on a disk that came with the printer.

- Lastly, on the PC go into the Printer settings and add the printer as a new device.

HTH.

Re: Help Getting Wireless Printet Connection

chickenbutt — Sat, 02 Jul 2016 16:45:05 GMT

Using the WPS button is the easiest way to go, since you are able to do that.

The WPS button is on your router. Just push and hold until it is blinking. It will find the printer and you'll be set.

Re: Help Getting Wireless Printet Connection

glb613 — Sat, 02 Jul 2016 17:14:22 GMT

@nomless wrote:
I can't tell how far you've gotten. Here are the steps you need to do.
- connect the PC to wireless network
- connect the printer to your wireless network. As another poster said, this is done by using the setup menu on the printer. One of the setup option will be for "network" - your verbiage may vary
- install the printer driver on the PC. The driver is probably on a disk that came with the printer.
- Lastly, on the PC go into the Printer settings and add the printer as a new device.

HTH.

The computer doesn't need to be connected wirelessly. The printer needs to be connected to the wireless network. Once that's established, you installed a "network printer" on your computer. There will be a choice of local or network printer, choose network.

Re: Help Getting Wireless Printet Connection

NickNack — Sat, 02 Jul 2016 17:20:42 GMT

@chickenbutt wrote:
Using the WPS button is the easiest way to go, since you are able to do that.

The WPS button is on your router. Just push and hold until it is blinking. It will find the printer and you'll be set.

I had the same trouble you are having until I discovered that the WPS button was on the router. As soon as I found that button, connection was easy.

Re: Help Getting Wireless Printet Connection

chickenbutt — Sat, 02 Jul 2016 17:46:27 GMT

Pook - the WPS button will probably have this symbol on it -

symbol on the WPS button - Google Search

Sorry, it wouldn't let me post it directly for some reason, but you can click on it. It has two arrows, one pointing up and the other pointing down.

Re: Help Getting Wireless Printet Connection

Pook — Sat, 02 Jul 2016 18:08:13 GMT

Thanks I didn't know what the WPS button was but it still does the same thing. I don't know what to do now.

Re: Help Getting Wireless Printet Connection

glb613 — Sat, 02 Jul 2016 18:11:01 GMT

If you have a Linksys router, here are some instructions.

wireless connection

Re: Help Getting Wireless Printet Connection

Pook — Sat, 02 Jul 2016 20:03:34 GMT

@chickenbutt, Thanks for the reply but my

wps button is solid and can't light up to blink.

Re: Help Getting Wireless Printet Connection

glb613 — Sat, 02 Jul 2016 21:08:49 GMT

@Pook wrote:
@chickenbutt, Thanks for the reply but my
wps button is solid and can't light up to blink.

Why not try connecting your printer to the wireless network by using the menu on the printer? I have a Canon printer, did it that way and it's easy. Look on the side or bottom of your router for the name and security number. When prompted to enter the information, enter it and it will connect. You really are making this process more difficult than it needs to be.

Re: Help Getting Wireless Printet Connection

Nuttmeg — Sat, 02 Jul 2016 21:24:30 GMT

@Pook wrote:
@chickenbutt, Thanks for the reply but my
wps button is solid and can't light up to blink.

Does your Wireless Router support windows 10?
Please disconnect your printer, turn the computer off, and start install again.

You should go to Canon Printer support forum. http://community.usa.canon.com/t5/Canon-Forum/ct-p/Canon_Forum

You may want to do a search inside the forum.

Re: Help Getting Wireless Printet Connection

chickenbutt — Sun, 03 Jul 2016 18:52:06 GMT

Oh boy. The WPS button WILL blink after you are holding it down for a couple of seconds but you also need to hold it down in a way that you can see it blink. Normally, it isn't lit up at all, at least on the last few routers I have had. It will blink after you've held it down for a couple of seconds.

If the printer is capable of doing it this way, it is the easiest, as it takes seconds and you have to do practically nothing. Might have to restart the computer. Sometimes I do. Then I see it installed and am able to print a test page.

Otherwise, as is the case with my other Canon (an older one), I just have to re-install it each time I change my network. There are instructions on the Canon website and they are super easy to follow. These links have been provided. I usually just Google the brand and model # of my printer and 'installation' or something like that and it comes right up.

Takes like two minutes total to do the install. I keep a cable in the drawer under that printer because one of the instructions is to plug it in. That doesn't mean you always have to plug it in. That is for the sole purpose of getting it installed.

During the installation it will ask you if you are doing the installation for the purpose of making it wireless and you choose that.

Follow the directions through. It is very easy and not at all confusing. Then you unplug the printer from the computer, when it tells you to, and you should be good. You may have to restart your computer, but it's never any more involved than that.

Re: Help Getting Wireless Printet Connection

chickenbutt — Tue, 05 Jul 2016 20:26:31 GMT

Hey Pook! I hope you got this thing going. I didn't want to sound intolerant the other day. I just felt frustrated. I wish I could have just gone there and helped you get it done and you could learn how. Trust me, I remember when I had the same exact type of frustrations.

I have two Canon printers. One of them has the screen (it's a print/copy/scan/fax machine) and I can just pair it up to the router as described here.

My other, slightly older Canon is just a print/copy/scan machine and doesn't have the ability to do that. So I have to just re-install it each time as I described above with plugging it into the computer and going through the instructions, then unplug it and it's wirelessly 'connected'.

Every time I change my network I've had to go through this with that printer and it is a bit of a pain, especially since it takes like 5 seconds to do the other one through WPS. But I finally wrote it all down so because i would forget each time what I did last time.