
A lot of people struggle with the issue of connecting Chromebooks with their printers. In this post, we have given you detailed information on how to connect the printer with a Chromebook and Print with it.
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Connect Chromebook to Printer
Procedure 1: Printer Connection Via Wi-Fi Network or Work Network
Before you learn how to print to a wireless printer from Chromebook, learn to connect the Chromebook with a Wi-Fi connection. It is one of the simplest ways of setting up your Wi-Fi connection to access the internet. Before starting with the steps make sure you are ready with the following things:
- Make sure your Wi-Fi router is turned ‘ON’.
- Your internet connection has to be strong.
- Turn ‘ON’ your printer.
Now follow all the steps mentioned in the guide and then, know how to print from Chromebook.
- Connect your Chromebook with the same Wi-Fi connection that is connected to your computer. To do this, navigate yourself towards the lower-right corner and hit the ‘Settings’ icon.
- Provide your WPS login credentials and your Chromebook will be logged into the presented Wi-Fi connection.
- Find and click on the ‘Time and Battery indicator’ and select the ‘Settings’ icon
- Click on the ‘Advanced Settings’ to open the folder.
- Navigate yourself towards the left corner and hit the option of ‘Printing’ and ‘Printer’ respectively.
- Find the option of ‘Add Printer’ and click on it, all the available printers will be presented in the list.
- Click on the ‘Name of your printer’ and confirm your choice of adding this printer by clicking on ‘Add’.

- Enter the correct ‘IP Address of your printer’.
- At last, to end the setting up process of the printer to Chromebook via Wi-Fi, click on the ‘Finish’ tab
Procedure 2: Connect your Printer With USB Cable
- Follow the below-mentioned solution. It helps you to connect your printer to your Chromebook via a USB cable connection.
- Make sure you are ready with an Adapter (depends on the kind of ports and cables).
- Now, plug in the first end of the USB cable into the printer and the other end into the Chromebook.
- Open your Chromebook and further click on the ‘Settings’ and search for the word ‘Print’.
- Navigate yourself towards the ‘Printers’ folder and open it.
- Hit the option of ‘Add Printer’ and click on the ‘Name’ of your printer.
- Now, confirm your choice by clicking on ‘Add’ and ‘Finish’ consecutively.
Procedure 3: Connection with a Printer Manually
Sometimes auto establishment of the connection might fail, when it comes to printers, in that case, you can go for the manually connecting steps. They are as follows
- First, make sure you have all the relevant information about your printer that will be the IP address and the queue, protocol.
- You can find all this selective information, beneath the printer. You can even find your model number there.
- Now once you know all this information, in the chrome window open settings and go to advanced settings.
- Click on the option ‘add printers’ and select add manually.
- Then fill in all the required information, and as result, your printer’s name will display and then you can select it and establish a suitable connection.
Procedure 4: Printer Connection Via Bluetooth
Bluetooth is one of the other ways to use the printer under Chromebook settings. Let’s see:
- Make sure the Bluetooth on Chromebook and on the printer is turned on.
- Now once you can see your printer flashing on the connecting window of Chromebook, click the option pair.
- You will now find a code, accept and identify the code which will lead to both of your devices connecting successfully.
A good connection establishment may take some time, so be patient and only then start giving printing commands or the whole process might lag and become slow.
Procedure 5: Print From Chromebook
Printing a document doesn’t require any guidance, still, many of you may encounter some issues. To prevent you from facing them, we present you the easiest steps to follow:
- Open your ‘Chromebook Menu’ navigate yourself towards the upper-right on the screen and click on ‘Print’
- You can also just open the document you want to print and press the ‘Control’ and ‘P’ keys together.
- In case you don’t find the printer in the list, click on the option of ‘See more’
- Drop down the list of ‘See More..’ and select the ‘Name’ of the printer
- Hit the button of the ‘Print’ and wait till the printer prints your document
Once you follow the aforementioned steps, you will successfully print documents from your Chromebook.