Setting up and Troubleshooting a Printer for a Wireless Network

Description

Setting up a Zebra Printer for wireless communication. Includes how to configure a printer for wireless connection to a network, and viewing the printer’s network settings.

Applies to

Zebra Printer with a wireless communication option

Requirements

• ZebraNet Wired and Wireless Print Servers User Guide. Read More>>

Zebra offers 2 tools that can be used to configure the printer wireless functionality as well as the ZebraNet Print Server Web Page:

• **Zebra Setup Utility (ZSU) Read More>>
• **ZebraNet Bridge Read More>>
• ZebraNet Print Server Web Page Read More>>

The ZSU and Bridge (Web Page is Ethernet only) allow you to connect to the printer via local connection (USB, parallel, or serial) or wired Ethernet to send the wireless settings to the printer. 

Note: When connecting the printer USB make sure the latest version of the Zebra Designer Driver has been installed.  The ZD driver can be downloaded from zebra.com.   It should be noted that the latest version of the driver is included with the latest version of the ZSU.  

Procedure

1. Following the steps outlined in the tool you used to configure your wireless printer.
2. Power cycle the printer or reset the network on the printer to connect the printer to your WLAN after sending your WLAN settings. (Important - Setting will not take effect until you Power Cycle or Reset the Network)
3. Try to ping the IP address of the printer or view the printer web page, to see if the printer was able to connect to your network.
4. If the ping is successful your printer is now connected to the network.  

Problem/Resolution

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