If you are seeing an error message of ‘connection failure’ while you try to install your printer and need assistance on that, you are on right platform. Go through the article and we are sure that the whole problem will be solved smoothly and efficiently. Lexmark printer not connecting to network can have certain causes, and they may include –
· Incorrect or duplicate network name
· Incorrect manual entry of SSID value
· Incorrect selection of security type or mode
· Security network key or passphrase might have been improperly entered
· N-only mode will not work in case you have draft-n router not running in mixed b/g/n mode
· In case you 5Ghz band operation, Lexmark AIO printer which is a 2.4 Ghz device, will not run with draft-N router.
· MAC filtering disables the connection
· Issue with DHCP server – either it is turned off on the router or issue with time has prevented it to address IP assignment
· Detached USB cable
· Running firewall condition or application
· VPN has not set up split tunnelling which disallows to use two networks
· Contact ISP, in case of restrictions.
How to resolve? Best possible answer to the problem posed can be found below. Read them carefully and try to do them steadily without any hassle.
The wireless print server will be told to search your network again, by Windows or Macintosh once you click continue.
The name of your network will be displayed in the list through a notification which will be sent to the system via the USB configuration cable.
If you are either not seeing name of the network or receiving connection failed error again and again, the solutions can be –
Make sure that wireless devices other than the printer are communicating on the network.
In case of windows select manually enter network information, and for Macintosh select other wireless network.
Gather SSID, security type and network key/passphrase.
There are 8 most common Lexmark printer error codes. But this does not mean that the uncommon ones should be ignored all at once. All error codes and their fixes have same importance. Therefore none of them has to be looked down because any error left unsolved can lead to disastrous consequences.
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