How do I connect my HP j4680 printer to my wireless network without my HP printer disk?

Hi
one possible cause for this could be your connection setup. Make sure your antivirus is not blocking incoming connections from other wireless devices. You must disable your firewall for your wireless connection to be accessible to other wireless devices. If you're using norton then your firewall is managed by norton, so you should disable the firewall from the norton interface. Hope this works.

I've seen this happen on several HP printers. You have to "point" the computer back to the right IP address. Go into the printer properties, under the Ports tab, and highlight the correct port for that printer. Then click on the Configure Port button below the list of ports. Next to "Printer Name or IP Address," type in the correct address -- 192.168.1.110. Then click OK to exit that window and OK to exit the Properties window and save the change, and after a couple of seconds for the IP address change to take effect, you should be able to resume normal printing.

Installing the Printer Software on a Wireless Network http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c02285878&tmp_task=useCategory&lc=en&dlc=en&cc=us&site=null&lang=en&key=null&product=3692888
Wireless & network http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/documentSubCategory?tmp_rule=23650&tmp_task=solveCategory&lc=en&dlc=en&cc=us&lang=en&product=3692888

go Wireless Printing Center

Shut down all computers and another devices connected to network. Shut down Router. Wait 3 minutes. Power on Router. Wait. Power on all devices.

First check that your antivirus and firewall software are not blocking the print jobs. Do this by turning off the services for a few minutes. If you can print, check for a setup option of trusted machines. If that doesn't help, make sure you have a strong wireless signal between the computer and the printer with no interference from other appliances (cordless phones, microwaves, etc). Also check your settings to make sure the printer and computer are set for the same wireless network profile and security settings.

For additional information, try the user's manual: http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c01770356.pdf

I hope this helps.

Cindy Wells
(I have generally preferred printing with a wired connection (USB) over using a wireless networks. I've always spent more time on printer problems that were directly linked to the network signal loss problems rather than printer issues.)

• Option 1
• any wireless product must be hardwired to the router prior to running wirelessly.
• otherwise use a memory stick and your OS disk to transfer setting to allow for your configuration
• Option 2
• reconfigure the network.
• start with the disk to the router
• router software will lead you to build a network

) You might not have to do this step, but if all else fails reset the HP Officejet J4680 network by pressing the setup button (the wrench) go to Wireless Menu and Press OK then go to Reset Wireless select YES and press OK. If that doesn't work then there is another reset that I found in the setup menu (the wrench) under Tools and then Restore Defaults. I wound up doing both resets on my Officejet J4680

2) Power the HP Officejet off and on for good luck (again optional but might help).

3) Make sure the the wireless on the printer is enabled by pushing the button on the left side front under the 802.11g so that the blue wireless light turns on. (again optional, but make sure the blue antennae light is on)

4) Connect to the HP Officejet J4680 wireless printer directly from the MAC (this is pretty cool stuff) Click on the Airport icon at the top bar of your mac screen, if you see the hpsetup listed then click on it, if it is not listed then click on join other network and type in hpsetup and click Join. This will join the mac to the Ad Hoc HPSetup network and you can now setup the printer from the mac!

5) Important: Print a network settings report on the HP Officejet by pressing the setup button again (the wrench) go to Print Report and press OK, go to Network config and press OK. If you try and print this before you connect (step 4) you will not get the info you need in the report, so connect first from Mac to HP then print this report.

6) fire up safari or Firefox or chrome browser on the Mac and type in the URL that is listed on the report you just printed out. It starts with http:// type in the http:// and the 4 numbers all together with no spaces into the address bar in your browser and press return.

7) you are now connected to the HP Officejet J4680 via the web browser interface. Click on Networking, then Advanced, click the infrastructure tab and fill in the passphrase info for your router type it again to confirm, then click apply. It should now connect and print from the router. But below is a good video with even more detailed info:

8) More Officejet J4680 setup via the mac using this very thorough guide: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rjd1ZqJ89N4

installing an auto update fixed this problem