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Well none of that changed anything. Got it back to the final status reached last time, printing from my desktop, "printer not responding" from my wife's laptop.

Connected the printer to the laptop...

The instructions show that box being checked.

After using the "Have disk" I dound the installation on the hard drive of the computer.

After entering the IP address the process says that it will detect the device. It then comes back and says that it was unable to find the device and says to check four things: that the IP address is...

The ping result was from my wife's laptop. Result from my desk top is essentially the same, so I can ping it from both computers.

In Step 2 of the process I selected "Add a local printer," but...

Packets sent = 4, received = 4, lost = 0.
Time: min 12 ms, max 84 ms, avg 49 ms.

I turned off the firewall: still got the "printer is offline" message.

I installed the local printer with a TCP/IP port per the instructions. After entering the IP address it said it was going to...

The manual, after considerable digging, did direct me to the "IJ Network Tool" program, installed with the initial printer setup, which allowed me to change the IP address as you advised. I did the...

Sorry, Midknyte, yes I did restart the router and yes, Pixma Mx490. Nice printer, once I get around this problem. Router is a Netgear CG3000D, and as far as I know I kept the default settings.

I...

"Are you using a static IP or DHCP for your printer?" That's probably a very good question, and I don't know the answer to it. Connecting it to the Wifi consisted of a process on the printer with a...

We have the above printer hooked up on our Wifi network. It works flawlessly from my desktop, which is connected to the router by Cat5 cable. From my wife's laptop, connected via Wifi, it sometimes...