--- title: Put a Canon Printer on Your Wi-Fi | High Desert Internet url: https://hdiss.net/support/printer-canon/ business: High Desert Internet Services (HDISS) phone: 775-575-9593, 775-391-5660 email: info@hdiss.net mailing_address: Home base: 200 S Virginia St, Suite 760, Reno NV 89501 (dispatch office, not a walk-in store). Mail: Billing Dept., PO Box 11353, Reno NV 89510 hours: Office open 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM, seven days a week. Network watched around the clock. type: Fixed wireless internet service provider (homes and small businesses), web hosting, customer email, domain registration service_area: Northern Nevada - Washoe, Lyon, Storey, Churchill and Douglas counties and Carson City; availability is checked address by address (line of sight to a tower) plans: Bronze $50/mo up to 500 Mbps down, up to 200 Mbps up; Silver $75/mo up to 800 down, up to 200 up; Gold $99/mo up to 1 Gig down, up to 200 up; ask about the up to 1 Gig / 1 Gig ultra-low-latency service no_online_purchase: true (check your address or call; existing customers pay at https://www2.fernley.net/hdiss/onlinepay/paymentform.cfm) since: 2002 --- - [Home](https://hdiss.net/) - [Help center](https://hdiss.net/support/) - Put a Canon printer on your Wi-Fi Help center / TVs, cameras, phones and printers # Put a Canon printer on your Wi-Fi On a Canon PIXMA, open the Setup menu, choose Wi-Fi setup or Wireless LAN setup, and use Manual connect to pick your network and type the password. Canon's support pages also describe WPS: press the printer's Wireless button, then the router's WPS button within two minutes. [Call 775-575-9593](tel:7755759593) [Call 775-391-5660](tel:7753915660) [Webmail](https://hdissmail.hdiss.net/mail/) [Pay Online](https://www2.fernley.net/hdiss/onlinepay/paymentform.cfm) A Wi-Fi router on a shelf. Stock photo: Adobe Stock. [Photo credits](https://hdiss.net/photo-credits/) Canon has different pages for different PIXMA families, and the wording follows the model. Two pages give the pattern: one for manual connect on the TR4520 and one for the display panel on MX models. A European page describes WPS. ## Steps - Have your Wi-Fi name and password Canon's pages say you type the password on the printer. - Open Setup, then Wi-Fi setup Canon's TR4520 page names the path through Setup, Wi-Fi setup and Manual connect. MX models choose Wireless LAN setup from the setup menu. - Let the printer search It lists access points. - Pick your network and type the password Check capital letters. - Or use WPS A Canon page for the MG3052 says to press the printer's Wireless button and then the router's WPS button within two minutes. The network must use WPA or WPA2. - Check the band if it fails A community thread says some PIXMA models talk only on 2.4 GHz. Dual-band routers can steer devices to 5 GHz, so a separate 2.4 GHz name helps; see [the band-split article](https://hdiss.net/support/router-split-2-4-and-5-ghz/). - Install the driver or app Canon points to ij.start.canon for setup software. ## Which Canon page is mine? The one with your model number. Canon organizes pages by family. If the printer's screen does not match, call 775-575-9593 only for the network side, such as the router; for printer screens, use Canon's page. ## What if setup stalls halfway? Restart the printer and the router and try again closer to the router. Make sure a guest network is not the one you picked. A guest name on 2.4 GHz is sometimes the way through. ## Does the printer need a fixed address? Not usually, but it avoids trouble later. See [giving a device a fixed address](https://hdiss.net/support/router-dhcp-reservation/). ## What if the printer joins but my computer cannot find it? The computer and the printer must be on the same network. If the router has more than one name, a guest name or a separate band, they may sit on different ones. Join both to the same name. Then run Canon's setup software or the computer's add-printer tool so it learns the printer's current address. If the printer found the network but the computer will not print, a fixed address often cures it. Reserve one on the router as described in the address-reservation page, restart the printer, and add it again. Canon's support site has driver downloads by model number if the computer needs one. ## Do I need to go outside or touch the antenna for this? Please keep off the roof. The antenna, radio and outdoor cable are handled only by a High Desert technician, and a phone call starts that. ### Sources - [support.usa.canon.com/kb/s/article/ART171589](https://support.usa.canon.com/kb/s/article/ART171589) (Canon, Connecting your printer to a wireless LAN, manual connect, TR4520, seen in a search summary 2026-10-15; not opened) - [support.usa.canon.com/kb/s/article/ART117459](https://support.usa.canon.com/kb/s/article/ART117459) (Canon, wireless setup using the display panel, MX models, seen in a search summary 2026-10-15) ### Talk to a person - Call [775-575-9593](tel:7755759593) [775-391-5660](tel:7753915660) Open 9-5 every day - Email [info@hdiss.net](mailto:info@hdiss.net) [Check my address](https://hdiss.net/check-availability/#check) ### Related help - [Split 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz so a smart device can join](https://hdiss.net/support/router-split-2-4-and-5-ghz/) - [Give a camera or printer a fixed address on your router](https://hdiss.net/support/router-dhcp-reservation/) - [Printer shows offline after a new router or password](https://hdiss.net/support/printer-offline-after-router-change/) - [Put an HP printer on your Wi-Fi](https://hdiss.net/support/printer-hp/) - [Contact support](https://hdiss.net/support/contact-support/) ## More tvs, cameras, phones and printers [Connect a Roku or Roku TV and fix buffering](https://hdiss.net/support/tv-roku/) [Connect an Apple TV and fix buffering](https://hdiss.net/support/tv-apple-tv/) [Connect an Amazon Fire TV and fix buffering](https://hdiss.net/support/tv-amazon-fire-tv/) [Connect a Google TV Streamer or Chromecast and fix buffering](https://hdiss.net/support/tv-google-tv-streamer/) [Connect a Sony, TCL or Hisense Google TV and fix buffering](https://hdiss.net/support/tv-google-tv-sets/) [Connect a Samsung smart TV and fix buffering](https://hdiss.net/support/tv-samsung-smart-tv/) ## Related questions ### Does Canon work on 5 GHz? Some do. ### Is the app free? Check Canon. ### Can I print from my phone? Usually. ### Do all Canon printers have WPS? No. Check the printer's manual. ### Is a router password the same as the printer's? No. The router's Wi-Fi password is what the printer needs. ## Call us. A person answers. 775-575-9593 and 775-391-5660, 9 to 5 every day. Email [info@hdiss.net](mailto:info@hdiss.net). Never climb to the antenna or touch the outdoor radio; that is our job.