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Hello I have a fairly new Officejet 6970. Its connected to my 3 laptops via Wireless.


Today its stopped printing on their laptops wirelessly.  Says "device offline".  I have run Print and Scan Doc and that doesn't help.  Says Device Status error.

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A lot of the settings on the printer for wifi are greyed out and say "Control panel locked" - how do I remove this please?

It's asking for user name and password.  Is it the same as HP Smart App user name and password?

Help:(


Thanks

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@ctrani

 

Welcome to the HP Support Community.

 

We'll have to perform a reset on the Printer for this. I have sent you a private message, for more details that cannot be shared in a public post.

 

Please do check your inbox on the forums page for the private message.

 

Let me know if this helps.

 

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Thanks!


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