How to Connect a Canon Printer to WiFi Without Cable?

Canon is a famous printer brand and best known for its Pixma series. These printers are very robust and available at very affordable prices. Canon printers are easy to set up with all devices. You can easily find a good Canon device for your office or home use. Canon printers provide both wired and wireless connectivity. On desktop devices and laptops, you can use the cable and Wi-Fi for printer connection. For phones and other devices, you can connect the printer wirelessly. These printers can easily connect to the system and provide excellent printing services.

You can connect the printer to home Wi-Fi and then share it among all devices. This feature is very helpful when you want to use one printer on multiple devices. You can connect the printer to the home network. After connecting it, you can use the printer from all devices that are connected to that network. You can connect Canon Pixma to Wi-Fi using WPS or the standard printer connection method.

How to Connect Canon Pixma TR8620 to Wifi?

Canon Pixma offers Wi-Fi connectivity and excellent printing quality. You can connect the printer to the router and share it among devices. Connecting the printer using a WPS pin is simple. You can connect the printer to the router like other devices. Before connecting the printer, check the router for the WPS pin. You can only add the printer directly if the router has a physical WPS pin. Check the pin and then prepare your Canon printer for cableless setup.

1. Go to your Canon printer and hit on the Setup button
2. Use navigation keys and tap on Wireless LAN setup
3. Hit on OK button
4. Click on Other Setup and tap the OK button
5. Choose Cableless setup and click on the OK button
6. Now your Canon printer is ready for Wireless printer connection

After setting the printer for wireless connection, start configuring it to the router. Ensure that your network is WPA secured.

1. Go to the router and enable the WPS pin
2. On the Canon printer, enable the Wi-Fi button
3. Canon printer Wi-Fi lamp will start blinking
4. Your printer screen will show available networks’ list
5. Choose the SSID of your network
6. Enter the password and click on the OK button
7. Wait until the printer gets connected to the network

Now the printer’s Wi-Fi lamp will become steady and the printer is successfully connected to the network.

Take a network settings printout

After connecting the printer, take a printout of the network settings page to ensure that your device is correctly configured with the network.

1. Load pages on your Canon printer input tray
2. Press and hold the Wi-Fi button of the Canon printer
3. Release the button when the Wi-Fi lamp start flashing
4. Hit on Color button
5. Tap on the Wi-Fi button twice
6. Hit the Color/black button

Your printer will start printing the network settings page. Check the printout for SSID and other details. If all the details are correct, your printer is on the correct network.

Install a Canon Pixma printer driver on every device

When you add the printer to the network, you can use it from multiple devices. But the Canon printer will only receive a command from a device if it has a printer driver. Your every device needs the Canon driver. Check for the driver CD and run the setup on your device. If you can’t use the CD then get the Canon Pixma TR8620 driver from the internet. Search the driver on the Canon website and download it on your device. Make sure you are downloading the setup for the correct OS. Your Canon driver setup for Windows won’t work on Mac devices. Install the correct driver and then you can easily use the printer.

Access Canon printer on the network

1. Turn on your Canon printer and enable the Wi-Fi button
2. Wait until the printer gets connected to the network
3. Now go to PC and open Settings
4. Click on Devices and tap on Printer & Scanners settings
5. Tap on Add a Printer or Scanner
6. Wait until your Canon Pixma TR8620 appears on the list
7. Click on your printer name and hit on Add device

The printer will take a few seconds to find the driver. Once the printer finds the driver, it will show a “Ready” status. Now open a document and click on the Print button. Your printer will receive the command and start taking the printout.

How to Connect Canon Pixma TR8620 to Wifi using the standard method?

You can connect the Canon printer to Wi-Fi using the standard connection method. But for this method, you need the Canon printer driver. On PC, use the Canon printer CD to get the setup. If the PC doesn’t have a disc drive, you can download the setup from the internet.

1. Go to the Canon website and search for the driver
2. Choose your region, printer name, and OS
3. Click on the Product setup and tap the download button
4. The file will start downloading
5. Now double-click on the downloaded file and it will start running
6. Follow the on-screen instructions
7. Tap on the Next button
8. Hit the Wireless LAN Connection option
9. Choose Connect via wireless router option
10. Hit the Next button
11. Click on Cableless setup
12. Choose Next button
13. A dialog box will appear

You will see your printer model number and SSID on the screen

If the details are correct hit on Complete button

Tap the Next option and the Extended Survey Program wizard will appear

1. Choose Agree option
2. Test print window will appear
3. Load pages on your Canon printer
4. Tap on Execute button

After taking the test printout, tap on Next and hit the Exit button. Your Canon printer cableless connection is completed. Now you can connect the printer to Wi-Fi anytime and take the printouts.

Your printer may show connection issues on the router sometimes. This usually appears when the network is secured with a firewall. A firewall is a crucial tool for network connection as it inspects the incoming traffic and requests. If any malicious packet or request appears; the firewall blocks it. The problem appears when the user sends a printer connection request and the firewall mistakenly finds it malicious. It disapproves of the request and the printer starts showing an error. To add your printer, you have to disable the firewall temporarily. Now add the printer to your network and take the printouts. After taking printouts, disconnect the printer and enable the firewall immediately. You should add the printer to a trusted device so the firewall approves the connection request easily.