TP-Link WPS510U Hardware Installation

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Before you start, you should prepare the following items

¾ Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista computer with print server setup CD

¾ USB Printer(non-GDI/CAPT)

¾ USB Printer cable

¾ One 802.11b/g Access Point (optional)

Hardware Installation

1. Turn off the printer’s power.

2. Connect the print server to your printer with the supplied printer cable. The
following image is the classic infrastructure topology for reference:

3. Turn the printer’s power on.

4. Plug the AC power adapter into the power connector on the print server.

5. Wait 40 seconds as part of the print server’s Power On Self Test (POST).

Factory Default Settings

¾ Username: admin

¾ Password: 0000

¾ Wireless Mode: Ad-Hoc (Peer-to-Peer)

¾ Channel: 1

¾ SSID: WLAN-PS

¾ IP Address: 192.168.0.10

¾ Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0

2

Assign a static IP address to your wireless adapter

Assign the IP address

192.168.0.101 to your wireless
adapter, subnet mask is

255.255.255.0. Please refer to
T1 in Troubleshooting guide

on page 13 if you need assistant

Connect to the print server

Click the icon and select

Connect to a network

Click Refresh

Select WLAN-PS
as your network

Click Connect

Note

For Windows XP, it’s almost the same way as the above to connect your
wireless adapter to the Print Server.

3

Select TL-WPS510U

Select the Print Server

Insert the provided CD into you

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computer’s CD dirve, the Setup
Wizard will automatically pop up
on your computer’s screen.

Click Setup Wizard

Click Next

Note

If you don’t have a CD-ROM, you can log onto our website
http://www.tplink.com/support/download.asp
to download the setup wizard PrintServer_Setup_Wizard.

4

Select the print server

Click Next

Please select Yes. The
default password is 0000

Click Next

Configure the Print Server

On the Select A Print Server
screen, TL-WPS510U will be
detected as “1P_PrintServXXX”.

Communication Type: Infrastructure
SSID: the SSID of your wireless

Router or Access Point

Click Next

5

Configure the Wireless Security
according to your Wireless
Router or Access Point

Click Next

Network device IP address

Router / AP 192.168.1.1

Print server 192.168.1.10

Note

Assign a static IP address to your
Print Server. The IP address should
be within the same subnet of your
Wireless Router or Access Point

Click Next

Note

The IP address of the print server must be within the same subnet with you

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Wireless Router or Access Point, for example:

Remember the IP address of the Print Server, because you may log into the
Print Server by this IP next time.

6

Since you have changed the IP address of your Print Server, you may lose the
connection with the Print Server. To continue the left configurations, you must firstly
rebuild the connection with the Print Server.

PSWizard is saving the
configurations to the print server

Then it will prompt you to confirm the
settings. Pleas click Next to continue.

This page will display when the

configurations are saved to the
Print Server.

Click Next

7

Click OK

Rebuild the connection with the Print Server

Select Obtain an IP address
automaticall

y

Note

If your computer is not able to obtain an IP address automatically, please
assign a static IP address to your wireless adapter. The IP should be within
the same subnet as your Wireless Router or Access Point.

1. Reconfigure the IP address of

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our wireless adapter.

Select Obtain an DNS server
address automaticall

y

2. Connect your wireless adapter to your
Wireless Router or Access point.

Click the icon and select
Connect to a network

Select your wireless network by the
SSID of your Wireless Router or AP

Click Refresh

Click Connect

Note

For Windows XP, it’s almost the same way as the above to connect you

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wireless adapter to the wireless router or AP.

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Click Next, and then follow the
step by step instructions to
complete the installation

You have now installed the print server and the printer successfully. You can print
through the wireless network.

Select an existing printer
by the printer name

Note

The print server needs to be configured only once, other users who want to
share the printer only need to install the printer’s driver and configure the
TCP/IP port on their computers. Please refer to the User Guide on the
resource CD, “Chapter 6. TCP/IP LPR Port Printing Installation” for more
details.

Now come back to the Select

A

Printer page to finish the left

configurations.

If your printer has already
appeared in the Printer Name list,

please follow the instruction

.

Otherwise please follow the

instruction

9

Click Next

Select Local printer

attached to this computer

Click Next

Click Add New Printer

10

Select Use the following port and
select LPT1: (Recommended
Printer Port) from the pull-down list

Select the manufacturer
and model of your printer

Note

Enter a name
for your printer

Click Next

Click Next

Click Next

If you already have the printer’s driver installed on your computer, you will be
asked whether to keep or replace it. Please select replace it.

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Click Next, and then follow
the step by step instructions
to complete the installation

You have now installed the print server and the printer successfully. You can print
through the wireless network.

Select No

Click Next

Note

The print server needs to be configured only once, other users who want to
share the printer only need to install the driver of the printer and configure the
TCP/IP port on their computers. Please refer to the User Guide on the
resource CD, “Chapter 6. TCP/IP LPR Port Printing Installation” for more
details.

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T1. How can I assign a static IP address to the wireless adapter?

For Windows XP:

On the Windows taskbar, click the Start_>Control Panel, then select and
double-click Network Connections. Right click Wireless Connection, and click
Properties. .

This dialog box will display.

Click Properties

Select Use the following
IP address and enter the
IP address 192.168.0.101,
mask 255.255.255.0

Click OK

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For Windows Vista:

On the Windows taskbar, click the Start_>Control Panel, then select and
double-click Network and Sharing Center. Click Manage network connections.

This page will display.

Right click Wireless

Network Connection

Click Properties

Click Properties

Select Internet Protocal

Version 4(TCP/IPv4)

Select Use the
following IP address

and enter the IP
Address 192.168.0.101,
mask 255.255.255.0

Click OK

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