How to configure a Wi-Fi printer with your Mac

With a Mac, you know, everything works! Unlike Apple’s portable devices, which require supported printers, with each printer of the Apple Computer WIFI can be freely configured and running at 100%.

In this guide, I will explain how to configure a printer via wifi with a Mac remember that you need a wifi network that supports more than one device at a time.

1.) First, you have to turn the wifi on the printer that you plan to configure the Mac Then there are two ways to access the printer to the network: the first is to use the software that comes with the printer, but for those who do not or for those who had had a Mac that would support not, you can use the router directly. This second method involves the use of a pin or connection available from the configuration page of your router, or using the WPS button. Pressing it will match your printer to the network, there is no need to do anything else. After that we must connect the Mac to the same wifi network.

2.) Without this, we must go to settings on the Mac, commonly called ” System Preferences. ” Click here to print and scanner and click on the little button to add devices (the one with the most drawn) present in the lower part of the left side under the list of installed devices. After that you must choose the printer you want to configure, which if properly inserted in the network will be immediately recognized and put on the list, and follow the on-screen instructions to download the software, specifically for the device with its driver and install the printer on our Mac. The same procedure also works for network scanners and faxes.

3.) Apple uses the Bonjour protocol to connect to printers on the network, but you can also manually provide the address or host name of the network that represents the printer. Also remember that this guide only works on the Mac and not on the iphone or ipad as to communicate with these devices is not supported protocol bonjour but you need the AirPrint protocol. In any case, I want to tell that there is a plugin for Mac, called AirPrint Activator, which is to connect the printer connected to your Mac even to portable devices via wifi network ..