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C7000 V2 will not find HP 4630 Printer
Router will not find the HP 4630 printer connected through the USB port. My second computer on-line found the printer but states off-line. Anyone know what Printers are supported or work arouds?
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Have you tried the readyshare utility?
https://kb.netgear.com/19593/How-do-I-download-and-install-the-ReadySHARE-Printer-utility
> Router will not find the HP 4630 printer connected through the USB
> port. [...]That printer has a wireless-network interface, does it not? Why use
a USB connection to anything with it, especially anything involving
Netgear-supplied software?https://support.hp.com/us-en/product/x/5305049/model/5305050
http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c03909822Unfortunately my computers are not wireless, they are desktop with LAN connectivity.
I have tried ReadyShare on both computers, one does not show any attached hardware and the other find the printer as active, but whenI try printing it shows the printer off-line. Everything I see says it is on-line except for Ready Share.
I am thinking of adding an ethernet converter to the USB cable and connecting the printer to the Ethernet Port and not use ReadyShare. If that does not work, I will take the Netgear Router/modem back. When I used my Dlink router with a Linksys Modem it all worked fine except for frequent drops which required rebooting, but the printer worked great.
You don't have to set it with a static IP address but whenever the router gives the printer a new IP address, you'd need to reinstall. Setting it with static or reserved IP fixes that.
Heres how to do a printer install in windows 10.
https://www.windowscentral.com/how-connect-your-wireless-printer-windows-10
Here's how you set a reserved address on a netgear. Its fairly simple to do.
https://kb.netgear.com/25722/How-do-I-reserve-an-IP-address-on-my-NETGEAR-router
Tying to set up printing it looks like the MAC software is missing .
You can’t open the application “ReadySharePrinter_setup_v1.36.exe” because Microsoft Windows applications are not supported on macOS.
> Tying to set up printing it looks like the MAC software is missing .
Nothing to do with Cable Modems & Routers or with this thread. You'd
do better to start your own thread in some appropriate place. And
that's "Mac", not "MAC".https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medium_access_control--------
> [...] I get that I probably don't know as much about this as you do.The question is not who knows more, it's how much misinformation to
provide under the guise of "help", when you don't know _enough_.> Happy to see you correct me.
You don't sound happy. (More resentful.)
> [...] In my experience, [...]
When was this (unspecified) "experience" obtained?
If you specify the location of a printer using its IP address when
you install the printer, then Windows might expect to find the printer
at that address in the future. If, instead, you locate the printer
using some mDNS-derived name, which is what I'd expect all the modern
Windows-GUI-add-a-printer stuff to display, then I'd expect Windows to
look for it by that (mDNS-derived) _name_, rather than by its IP
address, in the future.I don't have a Windows system up at the moment, so I can't easily
test it there, but, on a handy Mac, if I use System Preferences >
Printers & Scanners : Options & Supplies > Show Printer Webpage... to
talk to my "HP Photosmart C4700 series", it opens a default-browser
(Safari) window, which is pointed at:http://mfp.local./index.htm?cat=info&page=printerInfo
where "mfp.local." is, I gather, the mDNS-derived name. My router
(D7000[v1]) has no reserved address for that printer, and the Mac has no
difficulty finding it using Bonjour/mDNS.Put simply, a reserved IP address for a printer is not needed these
days. It's extra work, with no obvious benefit.> [...] Sorry you had to read the prior snark.
_That_'s what you think deserves an apology? Not the misinformation?
If "snark" is, for you, a synonym for accurate information, then I plead
guilty. But I'm always open to enlightenment, so if you can demonstrate
that a reserved IP address for a printer is actually helpful in some way
on a reasonably modern Windows system, then I stand ready to learn.