How do I Connect My HP Officejet 6950 to WiFi?

Connect HP OfficeJet 6950 to WiFi:

HP OfficeJet 6950 printer is widely used by users now a days. It comes with very exciting features like: it prints 16 pages in a minute and it comes with a touch screen. HP OfficeJet 6950 processor speed is 500 MHz approximately. It contains four cartridges of different colors like black, cyan, magenta, yellow etc.

Here We are Explaining Step by Step Solutions to Connect HP OfficeJet 6950 to WiFi:

First you need to connect your printer with network then you need to install the printer driver and software which is available at the HP website. When it prompts to select networks during the installation process, you need to select wireless option in the connection type.

Step1: Preparation for Your Installation Process:

Before setting up with your HP printer, first you need to collect your network name and password after that you turn on your router, printer and computer.

You are required to gather the following items which are listed below:

• First you need to gather your network name which is SSID
• Then you need to gather your network password which is called WPA security passphrase or WEP keys
• Your computer should be connected with your wireless network
• It is advised that always use broadband network such as cable for software download purpose, firmware download and for getting printer updates.

Then you need to make sure that your computer and router should be turn on and your computer should be connected with the same network with which network you want to connect your printer. Now you need to turn on your printer and keep it close to your router for getting proper signal during the setup procedure.

Disconnect all the cables from your printer.

How to Connect Your Printer With Wireless Network:

You need to connect your printer with network with wireless setup wizard to find your printer during installation process

You need to touch wireless icon which is located at the home screen of your printer’s control panel.

• Now you need to touch the setup icon
• Now you need to touch setup icon
• In this phase, you need to touch on available network, select your home network and click on OK
• If your network is not in the available list or your are not able to see your network in the list, then you need to tap on ‘enter new network name’ option and then follow onscreen instruction to enter your new network name
• If you are prompted to enter your password which is WEP or WPA key, enter your passphrase and click on done
• Now you will get summary screen in front of you, then you need to touch on OK option to continue with it.
• Now you need to touch on OK button to return back at the home screen.

Note: If you are getting connection display error, then there might be a change that you have enter your wrong password, either you have use upper case or lower case.

So first you make sure that if your passphrase contains upper case, and then enter passphrase in upper case by pressing caps lock button. You have to very attentive during entering your network name and passphrase.

Download Driver and Installation of Drive:

First you need to download the current driver software by visiting HP website and install it. If you are getting auto wireless screen after connecting your printer with router, then you have to follow the onscreen instructions to complete the setup, otherwise we are discussing some step by step solutions to download printer driver and installation.

Note: One of the alternate methods to install HP printer drive is CD, you can install printer drive by inserting a CD in the CD drive and follow the on screen instructions.

• First you need to visit HP website by entering website URL in the address bar of your browser which is 123.hp.com/0J6950
• Now you need to select your printer model from the menu, if necessary
• In this step, you need to click on begin and click download
• Now you need to double click on the driver file, on double clicking that file, it will starting to install which you can easily find that file in download folder .
• Now you need to follow onscreen instruction to complete the setup and printer driver installation
• Now you need to return back at your HP website home page which is 123.hp.com and complete your printer registration and activation.

This is the complete detailed document to connect HP OfficeJet 6950 to WIFI and after doing above steps, if you are facing any kind of issue, you can contact HP printer to resolve your HP officejet 6950 wifi setup issue.