How Do You Connect A Wireless HP ENVY 7640 Printer To Your Laptop?

If you have bought an HP envy 7640 printer, you must be thinking of how to connect it to your Laptop. This article will find all the possible ways of connecting your printer to laptops. To connect the printer to your Laptop, first, you have to install the driver for the printer available at the manufacturer's support website.

• Download and install the HP envy 7640 Printer Driver

1. Open the manufacturer's website 123.hp.com.
2. Type the model number of your printer and click on begin.
3. Download the driver and then open it.
4. Go to your download browser and open the driver file.
5. Start the setup and install it on your Laptop by following the setup instructions.
6. Move back to the home page and finish the registration and activation of the printer on the HP connected account.

You need to know that you can connect the HP envy 7640 through the following ways.

Wireless internet connection

Wired Ethernet connection

USB cable connection

First, we will discuss how the HP Envy 7640 printer will connect with your Laptop wirelessly.

• Wireless internet connection

1. First, place the printer close to your Laptop.
2. Switch on your laptop, printer, and a Wi-Fi router.
3. Connect your Laptop to a Wi-Fi router and make sure to connect the printer to the same Wi-Fi connection to which your Laptop is connected.
4. To connect your printer to Wi-Fi, first press the wireless button on the printer.
5. Then click on Settings.
6. Go to the setup lizard and press ok. It will start searching for your Wi-Fi network.
7. When you find your Wi-Fi network on the printer's screen, click on it, type your Wi-Fi password, and press continue.
8. Your printer will automatically be connected to your Wi-Fi.
9. Now go back to your laptop desktop screen and type printers in the search bar of your Laptop, and you will see the option of devices and printers in the list. Click on it.
10. Select Add printer from the newly opened menu.
11. Your Laptop will search for printers available near you, and you will find the name of your printer in the search box. Click it.
12. It may require the WPS pin. Go back to your printer screen and find the WPS pin on the screen. Type that pin and Enter.

That's it. You have successfully connected your HP Envy 7640 printer to your laptop with a wireless internet connection.

• Wired Ethernet connection

This procedure is much more straightforward than the wireless connection. Let's have a look at these easy steps.

1. Make sure to install the printer driver compatible with your printer.
2. Make sure that your Laptop is connected to the internet
3. Switch on your printer and connect it to the internet with the help of an Ethernet cable. 
4. Attach Ethernet cable to your printer's Ethernet port.
5. Connect your Laptop to the printer following the 4 to 7 steps of the first method.

You will be successfully connected to the printer. Print out one or two pages to check the successful connection.

• USB cable connection

The third method is to connect your printer to your laptop using a USB cable. It can be connected by just following these steps.

1. All you need is a USB cable and your printer placed near your Laptop.
2. Connect the flat end of the USB to your laptop USB port and the square end to the printer's port.
3. You already have learned how to download the printer's driver in the 1st and 2nd methods.
4. Just connect the printer to your Laptop. To do so, go to the Search bar/ Type printer/ Locate and click devices and printers/ Add printer/ locate your printer name/ enter WPS pin.

Your printer will be connected to your Laptop.

Conclusion

Through the HP envy 7640 printer, we can scan, fax photos and documents, and copy with wireless, wired, and USB cable connection options. It's easy to use by your mobile devices and networked PCs and can produce highly colored images at 4800 x 1200 dpi resolution.

The method to connect this printer to your Laptop is explained in clear words to help you when you are trying to connect it.