I have an HP DeskJet 970cxi printer. I have plugged the printer into the WD900 and installed the software. My printer shows in the list of recognized printers as “Not Ready”. When I right-click on the printer to “Auto-enable” I get an error message telling me to install the driver. This is a “Plug and Play” printer that is supposed to self-install the driver.
OK - this is a user error case. Or, a user misunderstanding case.
I have always used this printer as a “shared” printer via my desktop. Therefore, I had NEVER directly plugged my printer into my laptop. So here is my learning…
A Plug and Play printer has to be plugged (individually) into EVERY computer that will be using the printer through the USB port on the WD router. I somehow thought that the drivers would be held in storage on the router itself.
We have installed WD Print Share on every computer we are using (we have 5 in the house) and have “auto-enabled” every computer to use the printer.
I’m glad this forum is here, even though I figured out it was my mistake!!!