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Help with wifi printer please
03-10-2014 7:41 PM
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- Printer is Canon Pixma MG5450 printer / scanner / copier. I am keen to preserve the wireless scanning because I use that feature a lot. This connects via WiFi
- The laptop (Macbook Pro 2011 running OS X 10.9)
- The router is the Technicolor TG852n
The laptop just can't see the printer over the network; can't print, can't scan wirelessly at all. All works fine via USB. I've tried another laptop, and an iPad. All previously worked wirelessly without any problems.The WPS seems to 'pair' nicely with the printer. The printer knows it's connected and has an appropriate IP address. Also, I can access the online services (printing stationery etc) through the printer's little screen. I.e. it's connected. I have also tried the manual setup and inputting the WPA code by hand, and I've used the Canon IJ Network Tool which copies the network settings via USB to the printer. Each time, the printer connects to the router (and internet) but the computer can't 'see' the printer. Plusnet themselves won't offer any help.
I know a bit of computery stuff but I have tried everything I can think of and I'm out of ideas. I've set a static IP address. Interestingly although the router says all communication within the LAN zone is open, I am unable to ping anything on the network besides the router itself.
Please help!
Re: Help with wifi printer please
03-10-2014 7:56 PM
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Sounds like the printer is on the network just fine but that you haven't reconfigured the printer driver on your PC? Any software is probably still pointing at the old address.
Can you ping the printer from the PC?
Re: Help with wifi printer please
03-10-2014 8:16 PM
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Welcome to the forums.
If you look here - http://192.168.1.254/cgi/b/lan/?be=0&l0=4&l1=-1 - does it list your printer?
There are two angles to this problem...
1. Is the printer actually attached to the network? One assumes that you have reconfigured the printer's wifi settings to connect to the new SSID?
2. The printer is more than likely to have a new IP address and therefore you might need to change the PC's configuration for the network connected printer interface configuration
Also I have seen some printers fail to follow wifi Auto channel switching - do you know if your old router used auto channel switching? I fixed my issue by using manual wifi channel selection in the router.
Kevin
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Re: Help with wifi printer please
03-10-2014 8:19 PM
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Point 2 - There's an echo
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03-10-2014 8:33 PM
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Re: Help with wifi printer please
03-10-2014 9:22 PM
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I've found that the only way to permanently maintain my Canon Pixma MG 7150's connection is to use an ethernet cable between the printer & the router. if you can't do this then uninstall all of your printer's software, drivers etc. & then reinstall them & set up a new connection. This is the advice given to me, MANY TIMES, by Canon customer support. It always worked, for a few weeks.
Re: Help with wifi printer please
13-10-2014 12:53 PM
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Quote Try setting the 582n to WPA2 only. Even if it doesn't solve the problem, that's the best setting anyway.
I think that was the answer. I did also reinstall the software, so it's possible that made the difference although I strongly suspect it was a router setting, and changing the security settings seems to have done the trick.
It also *should* make the router run a bit faster, since WPA2 is a faster protocol and isn't limited to 54kbps. Winner.
Thanks all.
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