topic Re: imageCLASS MF753Cdw Printing from outside of my network in Printer Software & Networking

imageCLASS MF753Cdw Printing from outside of my network

cyberwasp — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 13:15:27 GMT

I know I can send print jobs from my phone outside of my network. Is it possible to do it from a friend's home pc if I load the printer driver on her PC or is it complicated. I already have a static ip on the printer!

This is mainly out of curiosity! TIA

Re: imageCLASS MF753Cdw Printing from outside of my network

normadel — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 16:40:10 GMT

You can't print from a computer that is not on the same network as the printer! There's no way for the off-network computer to see it.

Re: imageCLASS MF753Cdw Printing from outside of my network

cyberwasp — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 16:50:38 GMT

OK, a little confused then. I have the canon mobile app on my smartphone. When I was at my friend's house, some 30 miles away, I sent a text file over the cell network to my printer. If that works, why can't pc to printer work the same way. The printer has a static ip.

Re: imageCLASS MF753Cdw Printing from outside of my network

normadel — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 17:48:53 GMT

Static IP has nothing to do with it.

Does the friend's PC (you don't say what OS it has) have the ability to communicate over the cellular network to the printer? I know some PCs CAN be equipped with a cellular adapter. It'd still have to have a program to do what the cell phone can.

Re: imageCLASS MF753Cdw Printing from outside of my network

cyberwasp — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 18:55:47 GMT

Unfortunately no. I just figured it went from cell-internet-printer than why not internet to printer. There isn't a cell phone attached to the printer.

Re: imageCLASS MF753Cdw Printing from outside of my network

normadel — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 19:36:54 GMT

Cellular doesn't use the Internet. It uses cellular networks. What you COULD do is print to a Wi-Fi-enabled printer from a cell phone that is Wi-Fi equipped, and use Wi-Fi instead of cellular. Wi-Fi is Ethernet, which is what your network is. So the cell phone acts like any other computer on your Ethernet network.

If friend's computer is a portable, she could get within your network's Wi-Fi range and connect to your printer.

Re: imageCLASS MF753Cdw Printing from outside of my network

cyberwasp — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 20:18:32 GMT

You're not following. I Did it last week. I was at my friend's house. He sent me a text to my cell phone. I told my cell phone to send it to my printer at home and it did so. without a wifi connection. In fact, Canon supplies the app for it in google play store. On a daily basis I access my nas at home with my cell phone from wherever I am, no different.

Re: imageCLASS MF753Cdw Printing from outside of my network

normadel — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 20:29:15 GMT

When you sent it to your printer the phone was using CELLULAR service. How it gets to the printer within your home Ethernet network, I don't know. WiFi will not connect your phone to your home 30 miles away.

Re: imageCLASS MF753Cdw Printing from outside of my network

cyberwasp — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 21:13:56 GMT

The same way I connect to my Synology nas with my cell phone. Via the static ip address that I assigned to it. The printer has its own static IP. See the photo below. you can see it's connected through cell not wifi. That is the contents of the my nas which is in my house 20 miles away. as you can see from the top bar on my phone it is using 5g cell service, not wifi.

Re: imageCLASS MF753Cdw Printing from outside of my network

normadel — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 23:00:25 GMT

Maybe someone will respond to this who knows what's (not) going on.

Re: imageCLASS MF753Cdw Printing from outside of my network

cyberwasp — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 23:14:36 GMT

Hey, I wish I was young again as I used to do this in my sleep. Remember the first printers. They used heated wires to melt a metalic coating off of a paper. Had one of those back before the internet became windows based. I used to share it online with neighbors. Well before wifi.

Re: imageCLASS MF753Cdw Printing from outside of my network

Hector — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 16:53:02 GMT

Hello Cyberwasp,

The printer driver does not support printing outside of your network. The setup for the driver searches the network the computer is connected to. Since the computer is connected to their home network, it would not find your printer. It is possible to connect the computer to your home printer, but it would involve additional network settings on your friend's computer to connect to your home network and find a device. It can get complicated and unfortunately, support would not be able to assist with connecting your friend's computer to your home network through the internet and connecting to the printer.