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JohnEP
Jul 08, 2018Aspirant
Trouble connecting wireless printer
Just bought and install the Orbi Home Mesh WiFi System (RBK33) and everything connected fine except my HP CP1525nw printer ... I have tried everthing I knew and anything I could find on the ...
Mikey94025
Jul 12, 2018Hero
Did you reset and reconfigure your wireless printer using the Orbi's SSID? Is the problem with the printer connecting to the wireless network or your PC clients nor being able to see the printer? If the latter, also uninstall/reinstall the printer driver.
Some people have issues with their wireless printers after they replace an older wireless router with the Orbi. It's not sufficient to just name your SSID the same and hope that all your clients will still work. Some of them, like printers, are particular and need to be reconfigured even using the same wireless settings as before.
- JohnEPAug 08, 2018Aspirant
Thanks for the suggestion ... been out of town and am back ... The router see the printer asked to connect the printer to the computor to download the software and gets to 99% and just sits there and after a little while says its tacking to long and quits the connection ... Maybe the printer is to old to work with this new router ...???
- JohnEPSep 12, 2018Aspirant
Just now getting back to the Printer .... Thanks for all your suggestion ... Been at this for about three or four hours this morning and I have tried everyones ideas and suggestions and some others that I thought of once I tried yours ... No Luck ... I guess this printer is just old and outdated ... Thank you very much to all that contributed suggestions for me to try ....
- FURRYe38Sep 12, 2018Guru - Experienced User
Ya I have a friend who has a HP printer that has wireless, wont connect to the newer router.
I suggest getting a HP wifi printer server that has a USB port which you could connect it to the Orbi system, then connect the printer to the printer server. Point your PCs and such to the Printer server.
Good Luck.