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12-07-2012 06:18 PM
I have been troubleshooting for hours, but I cannot wirelessly connect my computers to my new HP Photosmart 5520.
All are connected with excellent strength to the home network but neither of the laptops will complete the HP printer install process.
One is a Windows 7 Dell and the other is a Macbook Air with Mac OS10. The Mac will recognize the printer when I go to add the printer in preferences, but it cannot print to the printer. It keeps saying there are connection issues with the printer. Neither computer can find the printer using the HP device connection software.
I have been able to print using the printer's email address from my iPhone with HP ePrint, but otherwise I cannot.
Please help!
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04-13-2013 06:33 AM
Hi Specer,
Thanks for the advice, but it is not really relevent, There are not wifi comm errors. My wireless AP is not part of the router and so the wifi network, along with my home ethernet network is inside the firewall. The printer gets an IP just fine, I have a reserved address for it on my dhcp server (the same as I do for my sky box, tv etc.). It works fine for everything except clients also on the wifi. So printing from the internet works, wifi direct works from iDevices, printing from a wired network client works, but a client which also on wifi fails. It is a single subnet lan with some addresses reserved and others issued from a pool. I have made a little picture - the DHCP server is actually in the firewall which is a plug computer. In this case the laptop also has a reseved addresses for both lan and wifi. I have turned off the windows firewall on the home network.
12-07-2012 06:27 PM
Same with me, have been trying to get my new HP Photosmart 5520 to connect wirelessly to my new Mac for hours and it will not recognize the printer or find its "location". I have downloaded new drivers and software and nothing seems to work. I don't even know if this printer is able to connect to the new Mac OS X Lion 10.8... It is not specifically listed on the list of printers on the HP site.
12-09-2012 03:11 AM
I have the same problem ,
I'm using MAC 0S 10.7.5
Last week I purchased a HP-Print-50-Photosmart 5520. It could connect fine with my router and the e-print works well.
However, the wireless direct printing was not working... although i could see my HP 5520 printer thru WI-fi using all my other devices, i could not connect to it.
Solution 1: I disabled the Wireless Direct security feature, and everything started to work. All my devices could see it AND finally connect to it. The printer worked for 2 weeks and then the connection issues appears again.
I tried to enable/disable the wireless direct printing but didn't work. Do you know what the problem may be?
now, I cannot access the EWS security page.... the password is given to me by my printer.... but the user name seem to not working ( itried admin or HP-Print-50-Photosmart 5520)... do you know how i can reset the user name or which user name I should try?
Thank you in advance
12-09-2012 07:03 AM
Set a static IP on the printer outside the DHCP range of the router. Set to a fixed channed like 1,6 or 11, never 'auto'. Temporarily disable all wireless security and attempt to connect. Once connected and verified go back and turn security back one, WPA2-AES.
Download and install the newest full featured software and drivers from the HP web site:
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareCategory?cc=us&lc=en&dlc=en&product=5157536
04-12-2013 11:39 AM
I am in the same boat.
I set up this printer brand new on Monday and had no problems. But I have since found that no connection via wifi is possible even though the printer is only connected by wifi. If my laptop is connected to the network by cable it can reach the printer fine, if I unplug the network cable and work on wifi, even pings to the printer stop.
I have played with the wireless direct settins with no joy.
Yes I have the latest drivers, the printer updated itself at install time and i downloaded the setup file directly rather than use the cd.
04-12-2013 04:40 PM
Polly, sounds like you're having wireless communication issues.
Can you tell me the make and model of your router? Do you know if it is dual band?
From what you describe, based on the issues being present when the cable is unplugged, it seems like this could be an issue with the router configuration. I would contact your router provider and check these things :
1. Turn off any internal firewall or add an exception for the printer (this might also apply to any firewalls/antivirus software on your computer)
2. Make sure that your router is broadcasting on 2.4Ghz (make sure that it is not 5Ghz or mixed) and that it's broadcasting on channel 11.
3. If you use a WPA2 or TKIP passphrase, I would have that changed to normal WPA
4. Set the printer with a static IP and Google DNS (the bottom of the IP page, set it for 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4). Here is a video on how to do that :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llYNMNKJMX4
Let me know what becomes of this, and I will respond to you as soon as I can.
04-13-2013 06:33 AM
Hi Specer,
Thanks for the advice, but it is not really relevent, There are not wifi comm errors. My wireless AP is not part of the router and so the wifi network, along with my home ethernet network is inside the firewall. The printer gets an IP just fine, I have a reserved address for it on my dhcp server (the same as I do for my sky box, tv etc.). It works fine for everything except clients also on the wifi. So printing from the internet works, wifi direct works from iDevices, printing from a wired network client works, but a client which also on wifi fails. It is a single subnet lan with some addresses reserved and others issued from a pool. I have made a little picture - the DHCP server is actually in the firewall which is a plug computer. In this case the laptop also has a reseved addresses for both lan and wifi. I have turned off the windows firewall on the home network.
04-15-2013 05:06 PM
Fantastic catch there! I am glad you were able to figure out what it was that was inhibiting the bidirectional communication!
I hope you have a wonderful day and if you have any questions you can always contact me and I will do what I can to help you out!
Happy printing!
05-05-2013 12:54 AM
@jwiner24 wrote:I have been troubleshooting for hours, but I cannot wirelessly connect my computers to my new HP Photosmart 5520.
All are connected with excellent strength to the home network but neither of the laptops will complete the HP printer install process.
One is a Windows 7 Dell and the other is a Macbook Air with Mac OS10. The Mac will recognize the printer when I go to add the printer in preferences, but it cannot print to the printer. It keeps saying there are connection issues with the printer. Neither computer can find the printer using the HP device connection software.
I have been able to print using the printer's email address from my iPhone with HP ePrint, but otherwise I cannot.
Please help!