Canon mg4150 Printer issues

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Hi all,

its been a while since ive asked anything on here mainly because i’ve had no troubles and am finding mate 15.04 to be great.

However i have been using a usb cable to connect to my printer but as its wireless i should really just connect it wirelessly!

The problem i have is that i’m not sure how to do this…I have connected the printer to my home wifi network but when i try to find it on my laptop it asks me for a host address. Im not sure what this is or how i can find it so any help/advice would be gratefully received

Matt

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Hi Matt,

I don’t have a clue myself but look here:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingPrintingProblems

and

and:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/NetworkPrintingWithUbuntu

I hope it helps!. :smiley:

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This sounds like you're looking for the IP address of your printer. If you're not sure what this is, it's a unique address assigned to each device connected to the network. Quite often they look like this: 192.168.1.1, 192.168.1.2, 192.168.1.3 etc. Not all networks follow that pattern.

Usually the Add Printer dialog shows a list of printers found on the network, listed here where this red line is pointing:

If not, we can determine the address of the printer a few ways.

  • Some routers allow you to connect to their web page to also list them, try http://192.168.1.1 - or check the Network Applet in the top-right and choose "Connection Information" and try the "Default Route" address.

  • The other way is to use nmap which finds LAN neighbours on the network.

sudo apt-get install nmap
sudo nmap -sP 192.168.1.0/25

(Providing 192.168.1.1 to 192.168.1.25 is your router's range)

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thank you mate, it was as easy as looking in the add printer section, finding the ip address and going from there.

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