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PC can't find network printer - what to do?

  • Sep 30, 2025
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Your PC will find your network printer, not directly, it may be the network connection or the printer settings. Here we have some tips for you, so you can set your device to still be successful.

Network printer on the PC

Often the Problem lies in the network connection of the printer or the missing drivers on the Computer.
  • Working connection of your printer to the network - for most printers, you can print to the device the cable or Wi - Fi connection with a test report. So you see, whether there is a connection to your network.
  • Printer driver install - even if you don't connect the printer directly via a USB cable to the PC, you need to install in some cases, a driver. No driver should be included on a CD, you can find the latest driver on the manufacturer's page. Here you can quickly reach the most famous printer manufacturers: Epson, HP and Canon.
  • You can enter the network address of your printer manually. To do this, click "The printer that I want isn't listed" in the setup wizard. With the Option "printer using a TCP/IP address" you can enter add the address of the printer in the next step to manually. The address you can view the test report of the printer.
  • Also with a restart of the router may help the connection to the jumps.
  • You can build up to these tips, still no connection to the network printer, there is likely to be access restrictions in your Router. To read more about this in the manual of the device.
Network printer set up
Is your printer already set up, but it is displayed as offline, we will show you how to get your printer back online get.

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