Kodak EasyShare photo printer 500 — User's Guide
Table of Contents > Using the wireless features of your photo printer > Printing and transferring over a Wi-Fi wireless network
5 Using the wireless features of your photo printer
Printing and transferring over a Wi-Fi wireless network
Insert a Kodak Wi-Fi® card (sold separately) into the card slot. Then, print and transfer pictures using your photo printer on an existing Wi-Fi wireless (Infrastructure) network, or print pictures directly to your photo printer over a Wi-Fi wireless device-to-device (Ad-Hoc) network.
Example of a wireless Infrastructure network:
Example of an Ad-Hoc network:
Adding your printer to a Wi-Fi wireless network
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If a USB device is connected to the photo printer, disconnect it.
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Push the Kodak Wi-Fi card into the card slot to seat the connector.
The card slot light blinks as the photo printer scans for available networks. Once connected, the card slot light glows steady.
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Make sure the printer driver from the included Kodak EasyShare software CD is installed on your computer. Then connect the printer to your computer with the USB cable (see Connecting to a computer).
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Configure the printer Wi-Fi settings (such as SSID and security) and add the printer as a wireless printer on your Wi-Fi wireless network:
Windows OS— Configure the printer Wi-Fi settings:
See Connecting to a computer. Configure the printer Wi-Fi settings:
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Close all programs on your computer, then disconnect the USB cable between the computer and the printer.
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(Optional) Print a copy of your wireless settings for future reference: At the same time, press and hold the Print button and the Transfer button for 5 seconds.
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Print pictures over your Wi-Fi wireless network
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Add the photo printer to your Wi-Fi wireless network (see Printing from a computer).
IMPORTANT: Add the printer to the same network as the computer or device you want to print from. If printing from EasyShare software, make sure Enable WIreless Connections is selected in Preferences. (For details, click the Help button in EasyShare software.)
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On your computer (or your Wi-Fi enabled device), select and print pictures. See your computer or device user's guide for details.
Transfer pictures over your Wi-Fi wireless network (EasyShare digital cameras only)
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Add the photo printer to your Wi-Fi wireless network.
IMPORTANT: Add the printer to the same network as the computer or device you want to print from. If you have two or more computers on the same network, use the Kodak wireless printer configuration utility on your computer to choose which computer to transfer to. (For details, see the wireless configuration utility Help.)
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Connect your EasyShare digital camera to the printer (see Transferring pictures from a USB device), then press the Transfer button.
Pictures are transferred to EasyShare software on your computer.
NOTE: If the printer is connected to the computer with a USB cable, pictures are transferred using the cable connection, not the wireless connection
See your computer or device user's guide, or visit www.kodak.com/go/wifisupport and www.wi-fi.org for more information.
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