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12-26-2011 03:45 PM
Just bought the 3050 J610 series for my dad for Christmas.
It is up and running, but the printer says it's not connected to the network and the light keeps flashing. It will print, but the light is flashing and we don't understand why. Please help. I want this to work for him before I head home. I've been at it for hours.
Thank you.
12-26-2011 04:23 PM
The flashing blue light means it is not connected via wireless. I finally used HPs setup tool for mac to get it to work. I didn't see a Mac tool on the CD that came with it, but I found it in the downloads support section. It took me a couple install tries, BTW.
AFAICT, there isn't ever an option to enter in the WPA2 password on the printer itself, instead when the printer is connected via the USB cable and your computer is connected to the wireless router, I think it clones your WPA computer settings (i.e. password) and loads them to the printer via the USB cord during the install. On one of my Macs (of three), I had to do the install while logged in using an admin account, instead of using the padlock click and admin password while logged in as a standard user to get it to work. After running the install tool, it was connected to my wireless router (the connection table in the router confirmed it) and I never did feed it a password to connect during the process.
12-27-2011 08:49 PM
I've been trying for about 4 hours to get my printer to work wireless but I can't figure it out. It worked for the previous couple of months but not it says unable to find printer. On the printer it says its connected to wireless but nothin I try works to get it to print that way. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling it but still everything I try has done nothing. Can someone help me out here. The reason I bought this thing was to run it wireless
Thanks
12-30-2011 12:04 AM
Download and run this utility: http://h20180.www2.hp.com/apps/Nav?h_pagetype=s-926&h_lang=en&h_client=s-h-e17-1&h_keyword=dg-NDU&ju...
What does it say?
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01-27-2012 03:42 PM
the deskjet 3050A will work usb with the new HP laptop windows 7
i inserted the disc version 24.1.0 and ran through the process it recommended that i plug in with usb to get set up which i did.
it worked through usb
but when i tried through wifi it did not even find the printer, so
1. i checked the printer was on (sitting on top of it) well nearly and wifi on printer opperational and has an ip address 192.168.1.69 and when i examine connection wizard on laptop it shows hub and printer but tells me it cannot connect to it?? when i turn on the printer
2. if i leave the wizard and go back in the printer is missing again??
any help please
stevie
