3 ms·
Point your browser at it and switch off the bits you do not need. Ideally, switch off the wifi altogether if you can use ethernet.
by gerdesj 8y ago
Point your browser at it and switch off the bits you do not need. Ideally, switch off the wifi altogether if you can use ethernet.
- jchw 8y agoIt is definitely not a WiFi printer. It is (was) connected to my machine via USB and it definitely didn't have my WiFi credentials. I would investigate further, but I've not had the printer plugged in for a while now.
- Namidairo 8y agoThey have a feature where it spins up it's own access point so that phones and the such can connect and print directly, so your wifi credentials wouldn't be required.
- jchw 8y agoYeah, that's exactly what I'm guessing is happening. That said, I don't really know how to disable it. I may be a software engineer, but printers are another realm for me, a dark one with a weird Turing complete programming language at the core and numerous protocols ranging from moderately confusing to batshit insane to interface with these pieces of crap. OK, so printers aren't that mysterious. I can operate a CUPS server and whatnot. But I just can't muster enough concern to figure out how to access the network settings on my printer, and I'd be willing to wager I either need to boot into Windows, connect it to LAN, or both, to actually do this.
- brokenmachine 8y agoI bet it's crap enough to have the Administration settings available on that wifi network it creates, either totally open or probably some default password. I would certainly be having a good look at those settings if that thing was connected to my network.
- rebuilder 8y agoWrap it in foil!
- xinau 8y agoAs a friend of mine once said. "There are only two difficult things in IT, no. 1 is printer's and no. 2 is WiFi.
- TeMPOraL 8y agoPrinters are hellspawn. Wi-Fi isn't that difficult. Bluetooth, on the other hand...
- SmellyGeekBoy 8y agoScrewdriver and soldering iron usually do the trick.