Connecting Your Printer to Your Router Use a USB cable to connect your printer to the USB port on your wireless router. Generally speaking, higher end routers will offer this functionality.

The process of connecting cables isn't a complicated one and in the majority of cases all that is required is a single USB cable running from an available port on the laptop to the printer's USB port.

Connecting your printer Whether you are connecting a USB printer, wireless printer, or Bluetooth printer, you are basically going to follow the same steps.

For Canon printers, the ability to connect to the device via WiFi is a huge boon for avoiding cable-wrangling or USB port juggling.

If Wi-Fi HP Printer setup using USB is failing with HP Smart app on Windows 11/10, then here are the working fixes that are sure to help you.

The USB/Parallel adapters you see also require a host because they are used for connecting a computer (USB host) with a USB port to a printer with a parallel port.

Specifically, some Brother printers won't detect PCs when connected through a USB cable. Issues have also been spotted when trying to change a Brother printer's settings from a Windows 11 PC.