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Why does my HP wireless printer switch ports occasionally?

I have a HP 6800 series wireless printer. It will occasionally switch ports. When this happens nothing will print until I go in and change the ip address for the virtual port in the printer settings area. Does anyone know why this happens and how I can prevent it. It happens probably three times a month or so.

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1. Sounds like the IP address is changing on you. Put a static outside the range allocated for computers on the router. If computers have 1.100 thru 1.150, then you can set the printer to 1.151. Once there and set up in the computers, it should stay.