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You can connect your USB printer by following a few easy steps: 1  Plug in the printer, and ensure that itâs turned off. Also, set up the printer with ink and paper and all that other good stuff, according to the directions that came with the printer. 2  Connect a USB cable to the printer and to your laptop. 3  Turn on the printer.
It's easy to get a printer working over with a USB or Ethernet cable. Connecting a wireless printer can be trickier. Here's what you need to know to get your Wi-Fi-enabled printer up and running. Connecting a wired printer is easy.Pick the right cable, and then plug one end into the printer and the other into a computer or network. Connecting a wireless printer, on the other hand, is ... well ...not as easy.epending on your printer, you may or may not be able to connect it directly to another Wi-Fi device for wireless printing. Connecting directly requires either the ad-hoc or Wi-Fi Direct modes that I mentioned earlier. Ad-hoc mode was the original option for connecting without an access point.