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What kind of printer? In my experience, networked printing is almost always much easier than USB. I've had really good luck with Brother and Ricoh printers. Fr

What kind of printer? In my experience, networked printing is almost always much easier than USB. I've had really good luck with Brother and Ricoh printers. From regular computers, network printing works very well (from Windows, Mac, and Linux), and their Android apps are also quite good (though they don't support the native Android printing subsystem, so I have to "share" files to them).

mark_l_watson 11y ago
It is probably not the printer, but the fact that we switched to Suddenlink for Internet service and all of our laptops except for my two Linux laptops stopped working wirelessly with the printer. Anyway, my wife is OK with physically connecting to the printer and I almost never need a hard copy.
- organsnyder 11y ago
  Ah. I have gotten into the habit of giving my printers static IPs (still assigned via DHCP). That probably makes things more stable.
  - tracker1 11y ago
    Same here, also, I never run the printer itself wirelessly, always wired, with a static IP. Rarely have issues... now printing over the internet to my home printer sometimes hiccups... whats worse is when friends print to you, and you've become their default, and suddenly you have a 150pg document printing from nowhere... that they didn't mean to send to you.
- jo909 11y ago
  Maybe you have some sort of (wireless) client isolation feature in your router turned on. Its sometimes called "AP Isolation".
  - lukeadams 11y ago
    I find that Windows machines wont "discover" my Canon printer like OSX+Bonjour does, so if the IP address changes you have to delete and reinstall it. :/ Might be OP's problem?
    - jonah 11y ago
      Have you installed the Windows bonjour client from Apple? I was recently trying to print from Windows inside virtualbox on my Mac to a wireless Canon printer. After installing bonjour, Windows found and install the drivers for the Canon but when I "printed" to it only a blank page would come out. Sigh, so close.
      - lukeadams 11y ago
        https://support.apple.com/kb/DL999?locale=en_US https://support.apple.com/kb/DL999?locale=en_US ? That would explain why the machine with iTunes works. Windows isn't my daily driver anymore but I'll definitely try that! Yeah Canon printers always seem to work after installing the monolithic Canon drivers, but tbh it just feels wrong.
    - unprepare 11y ago
      Make a reservation for the printer in your DHCP - then itll never lose its IP and nothing else will ever take it.
      - lukeadams 11y ago
        Yeah that issue was when I was using the ISP-provided gateway combo. I'm running a PF box right now and it hasn't been reassigned in months. But yeah assigning a static ip would fix it. It's just annoying when its a family member who doesn't know that can be done.

mark_l_watson 11y ago

It is probably not the printer, but the fact that we switched to Suddenlink for Internet service and all of our laptops except for my two Linux laptops stopped working wirelessly with the printer. Anyway, my wife is OK with physically connecting to the printer and I almost never need a hard copy.

organsnyder 11y ago
Ah. I have gotten into the habit of giving my printers static IPs (still assigned via DHCP). That probably makes things more stable.
- tracker1 11y ago
  Same here, also, I never run the printer itself wirelessly, always wired, with a static IP. Rarely have issues... now printing over the internet to my home printer sometimes hiccups... whats worse is when friends print to you, and you've become their default, and suddenly you have a 150pg document printing from nowhere... that they didn't mean to send to you.
jo909 11y ago
Maybe you have some sort of (wireless) client isolation feature in your router turned on. Its sometimes called "AP Isolation".
- lukeadams 11y ago
  I find that Windows machines wont "discover" my Canon printer like OSX+Bonjour does, so if the IP address changes you have to delete and reinstall it. :/ Might be OP's problem?
  - jonah 11y ago
    Have you installed the Windows bonjour client from Apple? I was recently trying to print from Windows inside virtualbox on my Mac to a wireless Canon printer. After installing bonjour, Windows found and install the drivers for the Canon but when I "printed" to it only a blank page would come out. Sigh, so close.
    - lukeadams 11y ago
      https://support.apple.com/kb/DL999?locale=en_US https://support.apple.com/kb/DL999?locale=en_US ? That would explain why the machine with iTunes works. Windows isn't my daily driver anymore but I'll definitely try that! Yeah Canon printers always seem to work after installing the monolithic Canon drivers, but tbh it just feels wrong.
  - unprepare 11y ago
    Make a reservation for the printer in your DHCP - then itll never lose its IP and nothing else will ever take it.
    - lukeadams 11y ago
      Yeah that issue was when I was using the ISP-provided gateway combo. I'm running a PF box right now and it hasn't been reassigned in months. But yeah assigning a static ip would fix it. It's just annoying when its a family member who doesn't know that can be done.