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Written by Norm on 2024-11-25 at 20:14

Can anyone point me to a how-to guide for setting up a home printer so that I can print wirelessly from Linux/Windows, but so that the printer doesn't have internet access?

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Written by s0 Unbreaks Stuff on 2024-11-26 at 11:09

@normplum you can find the printer’s network settings, and give it a static IP in your home network (so like if your router is 192.169.20.1, give it 192.168.20.250 or similar).

The subnet field is almost certainly 255.255.255.0.

Then the clever bit is to set the “gateway”/“router” field to be an IP you know isn’t in use, like 192.168.100.100.

This means that any time the printer tries to reach a device that isn’t on your local network (eg to phone home) it’ll try to forward that packet to… nowhere. Which obviously won’t work.

But anything sending data to it, will reach just fine.

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