After not using my Envy 6055 for a day, it seems to go offline (from wifi)

[MWAllison]

Running Big Sur vers. 11 (HP hasn't updated the OS in their list) in my iMac with this HP Envy 6055 printer.  Setup went fine and can print from my iMac, iPads, iPhones, etc. But after about a day of not printing the printer seems to go off WiFi and won't then print.  Solution now is to unplug and then plug in again and all is well again.  Don't like to do this task every day or so however.  What's wrong??

No new firmware updates out there and my WiFi has always worked great just not the HP wireless printer.

[TEJ1602]

@MWAllison, Welcome to HP Support Community!

To be able to assist you better, I would like to know the following:

• Are the printer and PC connected to the same network?
• Is your router dual-band enabled i.e., both 2.4GHz and 5GHz?
• What is the distance between the router and the printer?
• Is there any antivirus software installed on your computer?
• Could you perform a ping test using the Mac Network Utility and let me know the results?

Use the printer IP address to perform a ping test, the printer IP can be located by selecting the wireless icon on the printer display.

The wireless status menu on your Mac should also give us quite a lot of information that would help us identify the issue. You can press and hold option-click the WiFi icon and then use shift-command-5 to take the screenshot. Press the space bar when the icon turns into a camera. Share the ping test results and the screenshot with us.

Also, check with your Internet service provider if your router is able to forward 'Bonjour packets'. 

Bonjour locates devices such as printers, other computers, and the services that those devices offer on a local network using multicast Domain Name System (mDNS) service records. The software comes built-in with Apple's macOS and iOS operating systems.

Keep me posted for further assistance.

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