Network Printers

[saratoga]

My color laser had been hooked up to my wireless router in the other room, and since my hard drive crashed and I switched to Vista, printer no worky. Downloaded the current driver from Minolta for Vista 64. Set it up as a new, simple TCP/IP port, put in the IP that the router assigned and no bueno. It will not print anything.

Here's the interesting part: I took my laptop with Vista 32 and downloaded the drivers, went into the closet where all my utilities come in and hooked the laptop directly to the printer, set up a TCP/IP port, put in the printer's IP from the setup menu and it works like a charm.

Can anyone tell me what I'm missing if I want to keep it hooked up to the router in the closet?

 

[Unit453]

If you decide to get rid of it, I'd be glad to drive out and take it off your hands for ya...I do have an uncanny ability to put them out of their misery properly...):h

 

[JiFaire]

My color laser had been hooked up to my wireless router in the other room, and since my hard drive crashed and I switched to Vista, printer no worky. Downloaded the current driver from Minolta for Vista 64. Set it up as a new, simple TCP/IP port, put in the IP that the router assigned and no bueno. It will not print anything.

Here's the interesting part: I took my laptop with Vista 32 and downloaded the drivers, went into the closet where all my utilities come in and hooked the laptop directly to the printer, set up a TCP/IP port, put in the printer's IP from the setup menu and it works like a charm.

Can anyone tell me what I'm missing if I want to keep it hooked up to the router in the closet?

Sounds like you're printing to IP now, Grady... have you gone back and tried it over the network again?

When you "put in the printer's IP from the setup menu", was that the same Router-assigned IP you tried using before?

 

[saratoga]

If you decide to get rid of it, I'd be glad to drive out and take it off your hands for ya...I do have an uncanny ability to put them out of their misery properly...):h

I'm not quite to that point yet. Stand by for a possible "tech support" request however.

Sounds like you're printing to IP now, Grady... have you gone back and tried it over the network again?

When you "put in the printer's IP from the setup menu", was that the same Router-assigned IP you tried using before?

I connected my laptop directly to the printer, and no the IP was different than when it was hooked up to the router. I went through the printer's setup menu and got the IP it assigns itself, put that in when I was setting up the new printer in my computer and was able to print with no issues.

 

[JiFaire]

I connected my laptop directly to the printer, and no the IP was different than when it was hooked up to the router. I went through the printer's setup menu and got the IP it assigns itself, put that in when I was setting up the new printer in my computer and was able to print with no issues.

Set it up as static with that IP (at the router - rather than letting the router assign one through DHCP) and you should be able to print through the router.

 

[SfcJones]

Set it up as static with that IP (at the router - rather than letting the router assign one through DHCP) and you should be able to print through the router.

hats what I had to do with my Minolta Printer, just used a static IP from the Router and set up the printer fo the same Ip and presto.....works like a chap, then I went out and bought a Brother printer and networked it......btw, Vista stinks