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‎08-11-2019 12:15 PM

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Product: HP DESKJET 2540
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 (64-bit)

Hi everyone.

 

My housemate left me a printer here when he moved out: HP DESKJET 2540

Unfortunately, there were no documents or cables with it, except for the power cable. I have bought new ink and it seems to be able to copy stuff.

Now I've been trying to install the drivers on my laptop so that I can print off important  documents. Thanks to trouble shooters I have managed to do that, however, it doesn't seem to find the printer and is therefore asking for a USB connection to find it and I think to connect the printer to WIFI.

 

Now I was wondering if there was any way to get around the USB connection, as I don't want to buy a cable just so that I can install it and never use that cable again.

 

Any ideas or suggestions?

 

Thanks a lot!

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‎08-11-2019 02:59 PM

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@shhhallie 

 

It does support BOTH wireless and USB. Its specs

 

   https://support.hp.com/au-en/document/c03811750

 

Please run setup again using the following software on your computer and select wifi

 

   https://ftp.hp.com/pub/softlib/software12/COL48442/al-117577-4/DJ2540_188.exe

 

Regards.

BH
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