Connecting Your Printer to Your Router Use a USB cable to connect your printer to the USB port on your wireless router. Generally speaking, higher end routers will offer this functionality.

The process of connecting cables isn't a complicated one and in the majority of cases all that is required is a single USB cable running from an available port on the laptop to the printer's USB port.

Whether you are connecting a USB printer, wireless printer, or Bluetooth printer, you are basically going to follow the same steps. If you are using a Bluetooth printer, just make sure the ...

In the case of a printer specifically, the ability to connect to the device via WiFi is a huge boon for avoiding cable-wrangling or USB port juggling. Luckily, many Canon models make this process ...

Your printer needs a USB host (either a computer or USB print server). The USB/Parallel adapters you see also require a host because they are used for connecting a computer (USB host) with a USB ...

Some users of HP Printer and HP Smart app are facing an issue. Their Wi-Fi printer setup using USB is failing with the HP Smart app on Windows 11. In this guide, we have a few fixes for the issue.

Specifically, some Brother printers won't detect PCs when connected through a USB cable. Issues have also been spotted when trying to change a Brother printer's settings from a Windows 11 PC.

2] Check for system or driver updates Windows constantly bring up fixes to patches via their system updates, so a bug causing your printer’s name to go missing from Windows could be fixed in a ...