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‎06-02-2021 03:16 PM

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Product: HP Officejet 8740
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 (64-bit)

There are 3 methods.

USB directly

Wireless via your wireless modem

Bluetooth

My confusion is that I only seem to be able to connect with only ONE of these, reliably, USB.  I have tried to connect different computers via different methods of connection with no success.  I avoid wireless do the the printer constantly becoming "Offline"  I have one computer connected with a USB but can not connect any others.  Why is this so **bleep** hard.

 

I have tried to deal with these issues when I fight bought the printer and gave up and went with USB since it always work, but only with one computer.   I am again trying to figure out this issue.  I feel that I don't own this printer and therefore do not have control of it.

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‎06-02-2021 05:25 PM

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@MoradinIV 

 

Firstly I don't think printer supports Bluetooth therefore it is out of question. Please try the following guide for wireless

 

            https://123-hp.chat/hp-officejet-pro-8740-wireless-setup/

 

Regards.

BH
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