How to Connect a Canon TS3722 Printer to Wi-Fi

Getting a printer onto your home network sounds straightforward — until you're staring at blinking lights and a printer that refuses to cooperate. The Canon PIXMA TS3722 has a few different paths to a wireless connection, and knowing which one fits your setup makes the difference between a five-minute process and an hour of frustration.

What Wi-Fi Connectivity Looks Like on the TS3722

The Canon TS3722 is a budget-friendly inkjet that supports 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi — it does not connect to 5 GHz networks. This is an important detail. If your router is broadcasting only on 5 GHz, or you're trying to connect through a 5 GHz band specifically, the printer won't find it. Most modern routers broadcast both bands simultaneously, so this usually isn't a problem, but it's worth confirming before you start.

The printer connects wirelessly using one of three main methods:

• Wireless Setup via the Canon PRINT Inkjet/SELPHY app
• WPS (Wi-Fi Protected Setup) using your router's WPS button
• Standard wireless LAN setup through the printer's control panel

Each method has a different set of requirements, and which works best depends on your router, your device, and how comfortable you are with basic networking steps.

Method 1: Using the Canon PRINT App 📱

This is often the smoothest path for smartphone users.

1. Download the Canon PRINT Inkjet/SELPHY app on your iOS or Android device.
2. Make sure your phone is connected to the 2.4 GHz band of your home Wi-Fi network.
3. Open the app and tap Add Printer.
4. Follow the in-app prompts — the app will detect the printer and guide you through entering your Wi-Fi credentials.
5. Once connected, the printer's Wi-Fi lamp (the signal-wave icon on the printer) will stay lit without blinking, confirming a stable connection.

The app-based method works well when your phone and printer are in the same room and your network is broadcasting clearly. Where it sometimes struggles: networks with MAC address filtering enabled, or routers using older WPA enterprise authentication rather than the standard WPA2-Personal that home networks typically use.

Method 2: WPS Button Setup

If your router has a WPS button (most routers made in the last decade do), this is the fastest hardware-based method and doesn't require a phone or computer.

1. Press and hold the printer's Wi-Fi button for about three seconds until the Wi-Fi lamp starts flashing.
2. Within two minutes, press the WPS button on your router.
3. The printer and router will handshake automatically. When the Wi-Fi lamp on the printer stops flashing and holds steady, the connection is established.

What can go wrong here: Some ISP-provided routers have WPS disabled by default for security reasons. Others require you to hold the WPS button for a specific duration. If the lamp keeps flashing and never stabilizes, WPS may not be active on your router, or the two-minute window closed before the handshake completed.

Method 3: Manual Wireless LAN Setup via Control Panel

The TS3722 has a minimal control panel — no touchscreen — so manual setup is done through button combinations rather than menus.

1. Make sure the printer is on and not currently connected to any network.
2. Press and hold the Wi-Fi button and the Color button simultaneously for about three seconds.
3. The printer will enter wireless LAN setup mode.
4. From your computer or phone, look for a temporary network broadcast by the printer (it will appear as something like DIRECT-xxxx-TS3700 series).
5. Connect to that temporary network, then use the Canon IJ Network Device Setup Utility (downloadable from Canon's support site) to input your home network credentials.
6. The printer will reboot onto your home network.

This method is more involved but gives you the most control and works on networks where app-based setup fails.

Factors That Affect How Smoothly This Goes

After Connection: Confirming It Worked 🖨️

Once connected, print a network configuration page to confirm the printer received an IP address. On the TS3722, hold the Stop button for about five seconds — this prints a status sheet that shows the network name (SSID) the printer joined and its assigned IP address.

If the IP field shows 0.0.0.0, the printer connected to the network name but didn't successfully obtain an address — usually a sign of a DHCP issue or a momentary router hiccup. Power cycling both the printer and router, then reconnecting, typically resolves this.

When You're Switching Networks or Moving

Re-connecting to a new Wi-Fi network requires resetting the printer's network settings first. Hold the Stop button for about eight seconds to reset network configuration, then start the setup process from scratch. Skipping this step is one of the most common reasons reconnection attempts fail — the printer is still trying to reach the old network.

The Part That Varies by Setup

The TS3722's connection process is well-documented and reliable in standard home network environments. Where things get more specific to your situation is everything around the edges — your router's configuration, whether you're connecting from a phone or a laptop, whether you have a guest network or VLAN setup, and whether your device's Bluetooth or location permissions are enabled for the app to function correctly. What works in under five minutes for one household might take considerably more troubleshooting for another, and the difference almost always comes down to network environment rather than the printer itself.