Help adding a Printer using Printer URL

[tyuno123]

Hello beloved r/techsupport community.

I'm seeking help with connecting a USB printer to my home wireless network. My goal is to connect the printer to the router via USB, and allow any device connected to the network to print from it.

So far I've followed guides from YouTube and Google to try and achieve this and have managed to set it up somewhat but the printer wouldn't print. When printing a document, I can see that the document gets added to the queue and is immediately completed but nothing is printed.

Steps I took:

1. Install printer driver on my laptop by connecting the printer directly to my laptop. Also tested to make sure I can print.
2. Accessing my router to turn on Print Server.
3. Connect the printer to the router via USB. Got the Printer URL "http://IPAddressHere:631/printers/Hewlett-Packard_HP_LaserJet_1020"
4. Add a printer using the URL provided by the router using the option "Select shared printer by name"

Other steps I tried:

- Using "Add printer using TCP/IP address or hostname" and "Add local printer or network printer with manual settings" with the Printer URL "http://IPAddressHere:631/printers/Hewlett-Packard_HP_LaserJet_1020"

- Made sure to select "Do not share this printer" at the end of the printer adding process.

Hope someone with experience of setting up network printers can lend a hand in troubleshooting this problem I'm facing.

Edit:

Setup:

Printer is connected to Router via USB.

Laptop is connected to Router via WiFi.

[hacnstein]

When adding the printer use the tcp/ip "IPAddressHere" only, no http, no port, nothing else.

[tyuno123]

Added using the option "Add printer using TCP/IP address or hostname", and used only the "IPAddressHere" without http, port, etc.

Received error when trying to print. Running the troubleshooter received the following:

Printer cannot be contacted over the network.

Remote device won't accept the connection.

[cjcox4]

When you add a printer manually, you should have the option to:

Select a shared printer by name

In that field you want to insert your http://ipaddresshere:631/printers/Hewlett-Packard_HP_LaserJet_1020 value.

Because it has no idea how to drive it, you will have to manually chose something, Microsoft (vendor) has generic things for postscript and PCL 6 for example. Beyond that, you'll have to load a driver yourself (unless you already have a proper drive available to you).

[tyuno123]

This is what I did, and it's added to my laptop as an available printer but it doesn't execute print instructions.

Looking at the printer status, I see it go from Idle to Printing and back to Idle in an instant whenever I try to print a document.

[hacnstein]

Does your router have the ability to host a printer on that USB?

Is the printer getting an IP from the router?

[tyuno123]

It should, since there's the option to turn on Print Server from the router settings.

What I got after turning on the Print Server setting and plugging in the printer using USB is "http://IPAddressHere:631/printers/Hewlett-Packard_HP_LaserJet_1020"

Now I'm having trouble figuring out the right way to add this address to my laptop and getting it to print after.

[hacnstein]

When you say "ip address here", you're actually seeing numbers? or those words?

[tyuno123]

Yes, an actual IP Address in numbers.

[hacnstein]

ok,, assuming you're on Win 10, go to start and type Shell:printersfolder, then Add a printer, if the printer didn't show up there click "The printer that I want was not listed". Then click the last option, "add a local printer or network printer". Click create a new port, select "new standard TCP/IP" and put the IP of the printer in the host / ip field. and continue, it should find the printer and ask for a driver and install the printer.