Why did my printer stopped working wirelessly?
With the rising adoption of
laptops and mobile devices in the workplace, wireless printing is much needed
rather than the exception in several offices. A strong Wi-Fi connection lets
anyone print from a tablet, phone, PC or devices that supports Wi-Fi printing. Wireless
printing is usually very simple and a lot better than wrangling with thick,
tangled, USB printer cables. Also, you are not tied with a single machine like
a big desktop PC.
Though, wireless printing is not
without its fair share of errors or issues. A lot can go wrong and you may
receive Printer is Offline error
while printing over a wireless network. There can be many reasons by which your
printer stopped working over a wireless network.
Such as:
- Incomplete or improper router configurations
- Automatic Wi-Fi network connection, that is the printer and computer are not connected on a same network.
- Problem while installing or updating printer-related software
Let’s say you have a new HP
printer and when you try to connect it with wireless network it isn’t
cooperating with other devices. Here are some tips to keep in mind to resolve
this issue.
Following are the measures that can help you to resolve wireless printing issues:
- Did you try restarting your device? It is possibly the most generally asked question of all time from an IT person. By restarting your device you can easily fix a wide range of problems that also includes your wireless printing issue too. It simply kills any programs that is eating memory, gives proper code execution, etc. A restart should be your first step, whether your printer has worked on your network prior to or not.
- The next thing you can try is test the connectivity between the printer and network. If there is no connection then check router configurations and try to connect your HP printer again.
- On the device that you are using to print, always check if there is proper driver installed or not.
- One more thing you need to also check whether any security software preventing device from printing. For this, HP Print and Scan Doctor can help you to overcome this issue.
- VPNs are very important to network security but don’t usually play nice with wireless printer configurations. Try disabling active VPN for some temporarily basis so that you can print wirelessly.
- When the dynamic IP address of the printer gets change, then it may interrupt the communications between other devices over a network. You can use Update IP address utility to fix this issue on your printer.
If your problem still persists
and you are not able to print wirelessly, then we suggest you to dial HP
Support Number at once. Here, you will be connected with one of our highly
experienced technician who will assist to step-by-step to get what you are
looking for.
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