Most computers in home cannot detect Canon PIXMA 452 wireless printer

[norseman4]

A bit over 2 years ago I purchased a PIXMA 452 wireless all-in-one printer and connected it to both my PC and an older laptop. Both printing and scanning worked with very few issues.

Recently the laptop could no longer communicate with the printer, nor detect it on the network, but it was about to be replaced anyway with an Acer Aspire R13 using Win8.1 x64. The printer could not be detected at all.

Now, I just finished building a Win10 machine, and again, no detection of the printer, though the original computer still has full functionality.

To recap:
Original PC - Win8.1 x64 - OK
Old Laptop - Win 7 x64 - recently lost connection to printer
New Laptop - Win 8.1 x64 - no connection
New PC - Win10 x64 - no connection

Any hints as to what I should look-into to get the printer functional for the entire household again? (I'll be trying things out this evening and during the weekend)

 

[americanbrian]

Have you installed the driver on all of the computers individually?

 

[norseman4]

Have you installed the driver on all of the computers individually?

I installed the drivers from the canon site on the two laptops but it seems like the printer itself is non-discoverable.

 

[gondo]

Many printers have problems with wireless printing. I'd search google for your particular model printer with something like "Canon Pixma 452 problems wi-fi wireless".

I bet many people are having problems with wireless printing and that exact printer. After all these years they still havn't gotten wireless working great. My suggestion would be to use an ethernet cable to the printer.

 

[norseman4]

Many printers have problems with wireless printing. I'd search google for your particular model printer with something like "Canon Pixma 452 problems wi-fi wireless".

I bet many people are having problems with wireless printing and that exact printer. After all these years they still havn't gotten wireless working great. My suggestion would be to use an ethernet cable to the printer.

It was working beautifully for over a year and a half, and still does on one machine - the original. That's what gets me so frustrated ... not pulling my hair out, but wanting to grab a beer.

 

[hang-the-9]

Did you see if there is an updated firmware for the printer you can load? Reset the printer to factory new (and re-connect all systems)? Only catch is that the reset may cause the working system to also stop working and not fix things. A work-around is to share the printer off the system it is working on, and print through that on the other computers. This system that is sharing would have to be on though for the sharing to work.

 

[norseman4]

Have you installed the driver on all of the computers individually?

Forcing the printer to reconnect, then installing the driver from canon did the job.