#Ip address for hp printer p1102 update#

#Ip address for hp printer p1102 update#

But none of them would work to download and update the firmware on the laser printer. We have two Lion laptops and one Snow Leopard mini in the house. So I went off to Amazon, ordered one and yesterday it was delivered. So if you look at HP’s printer line up, their inexpensive laser printer is the P1102w, which according to online reports will work as an AirPrint device if you update the firmware. But at the moment (and for the last year) the only printers that will work with it are the ones from HP. So if possible, when I’m putting a printer on the network, it would be great to get one that would print directly from a phone or tablet.Īpple has a service called “AirPrint” that does just that. They’re just way more convenient to read articles, newspapers, books, etc. We’ve ended up using our iPhones or an iPad much more commonly when at home.

I tend to only use mine in the morning when I’m plowing through a long list of unread emails, or when I’m writing something longer than a couple of sentences. It’s relatively rare for us to sit down at one of our laptops and surf the web or read email. But when I thought about picking up another one of those, I hesitated after I thought harder about how we actually use the network at home these days. I had an old Brother printer that worked a treat for years. And the higher energy use is easily cheaper for spot printing than buying a new set of ink jet cartridges every 3 or 4 months (50 pages or so). We decided to get an inexpensive laser printer. Buying a color inkjet would be a total waste of money. It works out to something like 15 pages a month at most. And we tend to print out things like directions to someone’s house, a recipe, a webpage that we want to share with someone who doesn’t have a computer.

So in need of a new printer, my wife and I talked about what we wanted. (Printer ink is already more expensive than gold by weight, and losing it to lack of use really bothers my Pennsylvania Dutch values.) And she printed enough that, in most cases, we drained the printer cartridges before they dried out. She really wanted to be able to print in color. When our daughter went to college a few months ago, she took our inkjet printer that had been hanging out on our Apple bonjour network and managing all our printer needs (mostly hers) for years. But I’m tossing it out there because, if you like me, want to print directly to a laser printer from an iPhone or an iPad this is going to be helpful. Most of you will no interest in this post.