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My home has a wifi printer and it works with a Windows10 laptop. I have a Windows 7 desktop (which uses a wifi adapter) and I can't access the wifi printer. I went to settings and I added the wifi printer.
However, when I try to print from Wordpad or Paint, the wifi printer doesn't show up. What does show up is an old non-wi-fi printer which I stopped using a long time ago. The wifi printer does show up in the Devices and Printers.
You can click on Add Printer inside Wordpad or Paint, but when I tried, it couldn't find the wifi printer.
I don't have the drivers for the wifi printer on my computer - does that have to do with it?
Wouldn't the wifi printer show up in the lists of printers even if you don't have the right drivers?
I went ahead and downloaded the driver. It took about 30 minutes and the printer is now showing up in the programs, so I can print. I don't know why it showed up in Devices and Printers but not in the programs.
The computer saw the device, but had no drivers to run it.... until you downloaded them.
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