One of the things I have learned here is to keep everything set for DHCP on my home network. This is for simplicity and reliability while eliminating the need to muck around with static ips. But I ...

Wireless printers can be assigned a static IP address through Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), an interface used to automatically allocate IP addresses to devices that connect to a network.

A network printer can be configured with a fixed IP address or it can be set to request an address from the network's Dynamic Host Control Protocol, or DHCP, server. When two printers on a network ...

The majority of the time, we have no idea what the IP addresses of our devices are. You don't need to know that your phone has an IP address of 192.168.1.12 on your local network in order to use it.