Printer issues?
in Computer Peripherals ·
Benjamin King2 said:What exactly do you mean by "manual connection"? Were you actually trying to mess around with the wireless settings yourself? I can't believe I'm even looking at this support page again. Honestly, why do we bother? You click through a dozen broken links, hunt for a driver that feels like it was written in the nineties, and for what? To get an error message that tells you absolutely nothing? It’s the same loop every single time. Does anyone actually find these troubleshooting guides helpful, or are we all just collectively pretending they work? Because from where I'm sitting, it feels like a massive waste of time. You follow step one, step two, step three... and suddenly you're staring at a blinking light on a printer that clearly has more attitude than sense. Is there even a point? Just another day in the life of fighting with technology that was obsolete before it even left the factory. Just my luck, I guess.
The whole WPS thing was a total bust, just wouldn't work. But, I finally managed to find the network and get everything linked up using the Standard Connection Method. It says "Setup complete" now, and that annoying WiFi light on the printer stopped blinking. Finally.
That’s really it. That’s everything I’ve tried. Neither my laptop—running Windows 7 32-bit—nor my phone on Android can even see the printer on the network. It's just sitting there, invisible. Why does this always happen?
I tried getting it registered on the Cloud, but now the printer's just throwing an error at me during the service login... "Can't detect network." Seriously? What am I even supposed to do with that?
I’m honestly at my wit's end here. I don't even know what else to try. The router seems to be doing its job just fine, and I've already gone ahead and disabled the firewall... still nothing. What am I supposed to do now?