How to print documents and photos directly from HP printer

If you are having a smart phone, and an HP printer at your home along with home within a Wi-Fi zone, you can easily use your HP printer to print documents and photos directly from your smart phone.

Connecting to Wi-Fi

Your first task should be to share your HP Deskjet printer setup over the network, via an ethernet cable, or through Wi-Fi. The HP printer you purchased should support the two connection modes that are mentioned here, as a normal HP printer, which should be shared only through connecting to a computer is not going to work in the case. All Thus, if you have not yet purchase the HP printer, you should purchase a printer, which can be connected to the network via an ethernet cable or Wi-Fi.

Setting up the smart phone

On your smart phone or your android phone, you will have to go to the printer section, and you will find the HP printer that you are having, on the list. After clicking on the HP printer, or if you have not yet added any printer you will have to click on the Plus symbol, and the system will prompt you to download plug-in. It will be asked, if the HP printer plugin is not installed. You have to click on the download plug-in which is similar to HP Printer Driver Installation, and after that you will get a dialog box, which will ask you to open the link with certain applications.

Downloading the plug-in

Just choose Play Store on that list, and you will find a number of printers on that list. As you are using an HP printer, just click on the app that says “HP print service”. Download it, and set it as a default printer on your smart phone. Once you do that you can easily print documents and photos directly from your smartphones for your HP printers, provided that you have already added it.