HPLIP

Cannot get HP1102w Printer to Print Wirelessly

Asked by Robert Weir

I do NOT have a windows machine and I wish to setup a relatively new HP P1102w Laserjet Professional Printer for my various Computers (none are windows based). I am using Fedora 24 and have 'hplip-3.17.4 installed. I connected to the unit using an USB cable and ran 'hp-setup' as a non-root user. It went through its thing and I guess it set up my Laptop which was connected to my Laptop. I assume that it set something up on my Laptop which would allow me to print to the printer wirelessly. That did not actually occur. I am able to print to it while the USB is connected but not wirelessly. It said that the HP Plugin installed successfully. Can someone assist in helping me get it working. It says it is Compatible with Linux for wireless printing. Thanks...

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Ajay Kedar (ajay-kedar) said : 		#1

Hi,

For printing on wireless network you have to set up the printer for wireless network. The wireless on hp-setup is just to setup the wireless network on printer. To print on that network, you have to set up the printer as "hp-setup IP_ADDRESS" where IP_ADDRESS is the ip address of the printer from wireless network. make sure your laptop is in the same wireless network as printer.

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Ajay

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Robert Weir (robertweir) said : 		#2

Thank you Ajay.
        I would like to ask a few questions so I can figure out just what is happening. I assume that when one runs 'hp-setup', as a user, it sets up the P1102w as a Wireless Printer with it being attached through my Wireless Router. As such, when one prints anything it goes through the Wireless Router and is from there Routed to the Printer. My question is 'can one print directly to the P1102w', if the Wireless Network is offline, but the printer is powered on?
      OK. I now understand better how 'hp-setup' works. My understanding is that running 'hp-setup' essentially generates a ' .ppd ' file somewhere, which can be used to set up the printer to the Wireless Router, is that true? Once generated these ' .ppd ' files should be 'universally usable' on any Linux distribution, is that correct (64bit) in my case? When I run 'hp-setup 192.168.1.xxx' does it generate a 'new ppd' file on each machine that I run this on?
     I have struggled with the use of this 'hplip' and 'hp-setup' that I would ask, is there a 'easy to understand and use' documentation available for this procedure. I want to thank you personally for taking the time to help me with this question.
    Robert

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