HP ENVY 6055 Keeps Dropping Off Wi-Fi at Night: How to Fix It

Your HP ENVY 6055 works fine during the day, then sometime overnight it vanishes from the network. By morning the Wi-Fi light is blinking or the printer shows as offline, and only a restart brings it back. Envy printers are especially prone to this because of their aggressive sleep settings and how they handle modern dual-band routers. The pattern — fine by day, gone by morning — is a strong clue: this is a power-saving and router-compatibility problem, not a broken printer. Here is how to fix it permanently.

Quick Answer

An ENVY 6055 that drops off Wi-Fi overnight is usually put to sleep by its own Auto-Off timer, or kicked off when the router renews its IP address or steers it between bands. Set the printer’s sleep and auto-off options to their longest or Never, connect it to the 2.4 GHz band, give it a reserved (fixed) IP address in your router, and reinstall it on the PC using that address. Those changes stop the nightly dropouts for most owners.

Why It Happens at Night Specifically

• Auto-Off: The ENVY 6055 ships with energy-saving settings that can power the printer down fully after a period of inactivity. A fully off printer is, naturally, off the network.
• Router housekeeping: Many routers reboot, update, or shuffle channels in the early hours. A printer in deep sleep may miss the change and fail to rejoin.
• DHCP lease renewal: If the printer wakes to a different IP address, every computer keeps looking for it at the old one and reports it offline.
• Band steering: Routers with a single combined network name try to move devices between 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz. Printers handle this badly and can end up stranded.

Step 1: Adjust the Printer’s Power Settings

Open the HP Smart app, select the ENVY 6055, and open its settings (or type the printer’s IP address into a browser to open its settings page). Find the energy or power management options:

• Set Sleep Mode to the maximum delay available.
• Set Auto-Off to Never, or disable it — note HP hides Auto-Off on some firmware versions when the printer is connected to a network with fax or internet features enabled.
• Turn off any “wake on network activity” oddities and let the printer idle in light sleep instead of full off — a sleeping printer still listens to the network; an off one does not.

Step 2: Fix the Wi-Fi Connection Itself

1. Connect the printer to the 2.4 GHz band specifically. If your router uses one combined name for both bands, temporarily split them in the router settings, connect the printer to the 2.4 GHz name, and keep them split if dropouts return when combined.
2. Move the printer or router so the signal is strong — check the signal strength in the printer’s network report. Weak signals drop first during overnight interference.
3. In the router, set the 2.4 GHz channel to 1, 6, or 11 rather than Auto, and disable any “airtime fairness” or aggressive roaming features for a test.
4. Re-run the wireless setup on the printer afterwards so it stores the clean settings.

HP’s wireless printer troubleshooting guide backs the same band and signal advice for persistent drop-offs.

Step 3: Reserve an IP Address and Reinstall

1. In your router’s settings, find the printer in the connected-devices list and reserve its current IP address against its MAC address.
2. On your PC, remove the ENVY 6055 from Printers & scanners.
3. Add it back manually using “Add a printer using an IP address” and the reserved address, creating a Standard TCP/IP port.
4. Print a test page, then leave the setup overnight and confirm the printer is still reachable in the morning.

This removes the WSD discovery problems that plague sleepy printers. The same approach fixes many models — see our general guide to fixing a printer that keeps showing offline for the full background.

Step 4: Update the Firmware

Check for a printer firmware update in HP Smart or on the printer’s settings page. HP has shipped wireless-stability fixes for the ENVY 6000 series, and a printer that drops specifically after long idle periods is exactly what those updates target. Apply the update while the printer is awake and connected, and do not power it off during the process.

Common Mistakes to Avoid

• Restarting the printer every morning — treats the symptom, guarantees the problem greets you again tomorrow.
• Blaming the printer when the router reboots nightly — check the router’s logs and update schedule; if it reboots at 3 a.m., set the printer to rejoin gracefully with a fixed IP.
• Placing the printer at the edge of Wi-Fi range — printers have small antennas; a marginal signal drops under overnight interference.
• Re-adding the printer by auto-discovery — this recreates the WSD port and the old behaviour returns.

What to Do If It Drops During the Day Too

If your ENVY 6055 also disappears mid-afternoon, the overnight pattern was just when you noticed it, and the connection itself needs deeper attention. Start with distance and interference: printers tucked inside cupboards, behind TVs, or next to microwave ovens and cordless phone bases suffer constant signal battering. Try the printer in the open, in the same room as the router, for a day — if the drops stop, you have a placement problem, not a printer problem, and a mesh node or a better spot is the fix. Next, check whether other devices drop at the same moments; if they do, the router is rebooting or failing and the printer is an innocent witness. Finally, look at the printer’s firmware version and update it if a newer one exists, since HP’s wireless fixes for this series have specifically targeted reconnection after router events. A printer that still drops on a strong signal, current firmware, fixed channel, and reserved IP has earned a call to HP support — at that point the wireless hardware itself is a reasonable suspect.

While you are in the router settings reserving the printer’s address, it is also worth checking whether the router offers a firmware update of its own. Router manufacturers quietly fix device-reconnection bugs — the exact kind that strand sleeping printers — in their updates, and a router running years-old firmware is a frequent hidden partner in this fault.

Conclusion

An ENVY 6055 that drops off Wi-Fi at night is almost always a sleep-timer, band-steering, or IP-address problem — all fixable in settings. Relax the power timers, pin the printer to 2.4 GHz with a reserved IP, and reinstall it on that address. Do those three things and the morning “printer offline” ritual ends.

Frequently Asked Questions

Why does the Wi-Fi light blink blue in the morning?

A blinking blue light means the printer is not connected and is searching for the network. It lost the connection overnight and has not rejoined — the exact fault the power and router settings above address.

Does turning off Auto-Off use a lot of electricity?

Very little. A sleeping inkjet draws only a few watts. The convenience of a reachable printer far outweighs the pennies saved by full auto-off.

My router does not let me split the bands. What can I do?

Create a guest network on 2.4 GHz only (many routers allow this) and connect the printer to it, or reserve the IP and rely on the fixed-port install, which solves most cases by itself.

The printer reconnects if I restart the router instead. Does that change the fix?

It suggests the router is dropping the printer’s lease or the printer misses a channel change. A reserved IP plus a fixed router channel usually settles it.

Should I just leave the printer connected by USB?

USB is a valid workaround for a single nearby PC, but it sacrifices printing from phones and other computers. The network fixes are worth the twenty minutes they take.