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‎07-14-2016 07:44 PM

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Product: HP Officejet Pro 8620
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 (64-bit)

I have an Officejet 8620 connected to one computer via USB.  This is an older computer using Win XP and is NOT connected to the internet. That is working fine.

 

I would like to ALSO connect another computer (running Win 10)  to the same printer wirelessly.  I do have a wireless router connected to (and operating) the second computer.  Can it be done?  How?

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‎07-14-2016 08:06 PM

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Sorry. Should work. Connect the printer to your router wirelessly and install the software on your computer. USB and wireless can co exist.

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‎07-14-2016 07:47 PM - edited ‎07-14-2016 08:02 PM

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Oh... wait...
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‎07-14-2016 08:02 PM

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The XP computer now wired to the printer is NOT on the network; as far as I know it has no wireless capability.

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‎07-14-2016 08:06 PM

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Sorry. Should work. Connect the printer to your router wirelessly and install the software on your computer. USB and wireless can co exist.
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‎07-14-2016 10:26 PM

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Hi,

 

You can connect printer to one machine using USB and to other machine(s) to use wireless network. From my tests, I could not send jobs to printer at the same time. The USB connected job took priority and the network connted job(s) failed, I had to restart that/those job/jobs.

 

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BH
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