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‎05-26-2021 08:16 PM

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Product: LaserJet Pro MFP M29w
Operating System: Chrome OS

My Chromebook can see the printer on wifi connection and register it, but when I go to print, it always says "Can't connect to printer" in red with a red circle on the printer symbol in the print menu. When I hook up a USB cable between the two, it registers fine and has a green circle instead, but shows up as a different printer option, while the wireless option still reads the same. I would like to be able to use the wireless option as we will soon have several laptops and a desktop all using the same printer.

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‎05-26-2021 08:29 PM

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I have a similar issue. MY Samsung laptop has been connecting to the HP OfficeJet Pro 8710 for weeks now, but just the past couple of days, I cannot send print jobs over the wireless network to the printer. "Printer cannot be contacted over the network." Help would be appreciated!

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‎05-27-2021 12:07 PM

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Hi,

An Laserjet Pro M29w printer is not natively supported on Chrome using IPP, but can be used with HPLIP as described below:

https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/ish_2059279-1992970-16

 

Please check below 3rd party link for detailed information about enabling HPLIP non ChromeOS:

https://chromeunboxed.com/how-to-use-your-hp-printer-with-linux-on-chrome-os/

 

Shlomi



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‎05-27-2021 05:59 PM

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Apparently my Chromebook doesn't support Linux. So looks like my printer is a sack of bunk to me then eh?

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