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Can the native Windows printer driver work over WiFi?

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colore

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Hi

Can the native Windows printer driver enable us to set up a Wi-Fi printer to work over Wi-Fi and print documents over wi-fi?

We do not want to use the manufacturers driver because it comes with boatware and spyware and forces us to send our documents to the manufacturers servers and cloud in order to print them over Wi-Fi.

Alternatively, is there any open source driver to enable WiFi printing?

Thank you
 
colore said:
Hi

Can the native Windows printer driver enable us to set up a Wi-Fi printer to work over Wi-Fi and print documents over wi-fi?

We do not want to use the manufacturers driver because it comes with boatware and spyware and forces us to send our documents to the manufacturers servers and cloud in order to print them over Wi-Fi.

Alternatively, is there any open source driver to enable WiFi printing?

Thank you
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you can try setting it up as a generic PCL IP printer or look on the oems website for a driver only package. it neither work youre sol.
 
It's HP P1102.
Smart suggestion thanks! Though a bit risky if not tested.
 
download the driver pack, extract it with winrar or 7zip. right click this file and install. if that doesnt work when you connect the printer and it goes in as unknown, then point device manager to it:
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If you're feeling sadistic, you could install CUPS (in WSL2) in Windows.
:ROFLMAO:

What pendragon suggested should work, though. Although, it may not. HP has a way of not letting you do what you want with their newer printers. It might let you print a few pages and then lock you out until you install their shit and register, depending on which printer tier you got.
 
I've seen some set up a Raspberry Pi to act as a VirtualHere server for USB devices connected to it to become accessible over the LAN network via their client UI.

Limitation is only one client can connect to the USB device over the network at a time, to my understanding.
 
Thank you, I will try these but isn't Wn11 native driver supporting WiFi printing?
 
colore said:
Thank you, I will try these but isn't Wn11 native driver supporting WiFi printing?
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IF 11 has a built in it should. have you bothered to try it? put the printer on the wifi and let windows look for it...
 
pendragon1 said:
IF 11 has a built in it should. have you bothered to try it? put the printer on the wifi and let windows look for it...
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Ah will do that thanks. I didn't see it in the Printer Settings hence wasn't sure but will try that way.
 
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if its on the wifi it should be found. if it has a built in driver it witll just work. if not, it will prompt for one.
 
I was actually struggling with the steps before that.

1. How to switch on the Wi-Fi of the printer
2. How to enter my Wi-Fi login details in my printer

Then I suppose I can use Windows "find a device" to establish the connection.

I am currently not having physical access to the printer but will return home and more.
 
colore said:
I was actually struggling with the steps before that.

1. How to switch on the Wi-Fi of the printer
2. How to enter my Wi-Fi login details in my printer

Then I suppose I can use Windows "find a device" to establish the connection.

I am currently not having physical access to the printer but will return home and more.
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you have to setup the wifi directly on the printer. usually just teh ssid and password, pretty simple.
 
If it doesn't have a display on the printer, you may have to do some button sequence with the wifi or info buttons to get the wifi-direct ssid and password, and from there you can go to the printer's ip to configure the ssid/password and other settings yourself. You'll need the admin name and pin (usually inside the printer or on a label under it), and some paper for it to print the info on.
 
Windows nor the driver care how the printer is connected. As noted above, you need to first get the printer connected to your wifi. After which, you can complete setup from within Windows.
 
Oh I see.

All instructions that can find online refer to downloading the HP software, which is something I strongly need to avoid.

There may be some luck with WPS but these instructions that I found were generated by large language model hence I doubt on its accuracy.
 
re-read my posts, the instructions are there. if you cant handle this, go buy a Brother.
 
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