HP OfficeJet 6958 on wifi not recognized on HPSmart or SysPref/Printers on Catalina 10.15.5

[celhardt1950]

macMini (late 2014).  system pref/printers cannot see this all-in-one over wifi, nor can any of the HP tools, like HPSmart.  The printer is seen and works on wifi with iOS 13.4.1, another mac laptop running MacOS 10.13.4, and, embarrassingly, this same mac Mini when booted into Win7.  Spent about three hours on the phone with multiple  Apple tech support personnel and at least two days troubleshooting this on my own.  

Constructive guidance welcomed.

[TEJ1602]

@celhardt1950, 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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