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- On your keyboard, press the Windows logo key and I at the same time. Click Devices.
- Click Devices and printers. Then click Manage
- Right-click your printer and select Printer properties.
- Click the Ports tab, then Add Port.
- Select Standard TCP/IP Port, then click New Port.
- Click Next.
- Type in the printer’s IP address. Click Next.
- You will then manually choose the driver to use. If no driver is present for your printer model, go to the manufacturer's website, download and install the driver and repeat this step.
- When it asks "do you want to share this printer" click NO
- Click finished, you may want to print a test page.
- If the printer initially shows "online" but within a minute changes to "offline" with no change in printers status such as going to sleep, you may be dealing with a communication protocol issue.
- Windows 10 expects to be able to constantly talk to printers via SMB SNMP. If the printer is old enough, it will use SMB protocols 1-3 which are old and insecure and disabled by default on Windows 10. By disabling the SMB the SNMP port for a printer, you are telling your computer, do not try to constantly talk to this printer. just print.
- Repeat Steps 1) to 3),Instead of adding a new port, you will want to Configure Existing Port
- Search for the checkbox next to SMB SNMP. Remove the check and click ok.
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