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    Wireless printing problem

    Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by jessea510, Jan 7, 2011.

  1. jessea510

    jessea510 Notebook Consultant

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    I have a WRT54G router at home with one desktop connected and multiple laptops(wireless). My mom brought an old HP laserjet 5P from work with extra ink to last a lonnnggggg time. We've had this printer for awhile now and it works great. At first I simply had it connected to the desktop and ran a workgroup newtwork where I shared the printer with all the other computers and it worked great. Then I bough a brother inkjet color printer, hooked it up to the desktop and it worked great too. Never had problems printing wirelessly from any computer.
    then I didnt want to have the desktop on 24/7 so I bought a Trendent TE100-P1P to connect the HP 5P. So the print server is connected directly to the router. I connected the brother printer directly to the router too using an ethernet cable and its built in network software. When I first set everything up it works great for the first day or two and then I can't end up printing from the computers. The trendent is set up to the router using dhcp and when I look at the router and at the dhcp ip table I can see the trendent print server and can ping to it. MS Word and other software show that the printer is ready but when I print it gives me an error-printing with no other details.

    Any help?
    thanks
     
    jessea510, Jan 7, 2011
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    makaveli72 Eat.My.Shorts

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    So what is the error message?

    Also, can you still print to the brother inkjet printer, which is directly connected to the router?
     
    makaveli72, Jan 7, 2011
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    blue68f100 Notebook Virtuoso

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    Either the print server has died or one of the printer is not releasing the Q. May want to power cycle the printers and print server.

    Can you connect directly to the printer and get supply info?
     
    blue68f100, Jan 7, 2011
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    jessea510 Notebook Consultant

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    the status just says "error-printing" but nothing else. I tried power cycling the printer and printer server but no go.

    I can print using the brother printer.

    @blue68f100 what do you mean it is not releasing the Q?

    Thanks
     
    jessea510, Jan 8, 2011
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    blue68f100 Notebook Virtuoso

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    When jobs are sent they are put in a Q (job list). Early on when print servers started comming out this was an issue, failing to close/finish the open port. The only ones my company found that worked reliablity was HP with HP printers. If your P6 can be fitted with a Nic card it's the best option. I have one in my 4100. I pick up one for my 4100 on ebay cheap.
     
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    jessea510 Notebook Consultant

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    I figured out the problem. I gues since the router is set to DHCP it changed the ip address to 192.168.1.102 on the HP printer server but in Windows under the printers properties it still had the ip address as 192.168.1.104. So I changed it to 192.168.1.102 manually.
    But how do I do it so that windows knows when the router changes its ip address?
    When i installed the HP printer server i used the wizard and it had an option for Dynamic IP (DHCP) and I used that setting
     
    jessea510, Jan 8, 2011
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    blue68f100 Notebook Virtuoso

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    Assign an Static IP outside of your normal DHCP range your router gives out. This will it will not be changed. My router has reserved IP's feature, that I use for all of my hardware.

    Router DHCP Range 100-200
    Printers/hardware in the 2-99 range.
     
    blue68f100, Jan 8, 2011
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  8. jessea510

    jessea510 Notebook Consultant

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    the routers DHCP range was from 100-149 and I had originally set it to 150 but then I coudn't connect to it so that is why I used the DHCP.
    how do you know that printers/hardware is 2-99 range?
    I set it to 98 and everything works great :) thanks
     
    jessea510, Jan 10, 2011
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    makaveli72 Eat.My.Shorts

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    ^^ No, he's just saying that he has his network setup like that. You can set up whatever DHCP range you want via the Router.
     
    makaveli72, Jan 10, 2011
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