Re: Discovering IP Address for an HP Laserjet printer

2010-02-03 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Mike, If the printer is connected via ethernet to your router, and your Mac is also connected to the same network, then you should be able to print from your Computer to the HP 8550N LaserJet printer without using AppleTalk - e.g., you set up IP printing using the HPJetdirect protocol. All

Re: Discovering IP Address for an HP Laserjet printer

2010-02-02 Thread Mike Moore
Peter I tried what you suggested and it does ping successfully. What is really weird about all of this is when I first connected the printer I was able to see the printer fine. The first page I sent to print was an image and 80% of the way through the printer spat the dummy and aborted with a

Re: Discovering IP Address for an HP Laserjet printer

2010-02-02 Thread Peter Hinchliffe
On 02/02/2010, at 10:14 PM, Mike Moore wrote: >> >> If it's running bonjour you can use the little freeware util, "Bonjour >> Browser to" find it. > Thanks Rob - Bonjour Browser has given me the IP address. Unfortunately > though the printer still won't print. No matter what I do at the com

Re: Discovering IP Address for an HP Laserjet printer

2010-02-02 Thread Rob Findlay
You don't need to if you already found the IP address via bonjour browser. It's simply another way to find out information you already have. Assuming that you have now configured the printer as an IP printer your problem is now probably that you either have the wrong driver or that the driver is

Re: Discovering IP Address for an HP Laserjet printer

2010-02-02 Thread Mike Moore
Neil thanks for the advice but I'm not sure how you go about logging into the router. On 02/02/2010, at 6:52 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: > > Hi Mike, > > If you log-in to your router configuration using your web-browser can't you > see a list of the IP addresses allocated to connected devices?

Re: Discovering IP Address for an HP Laserjet printer

2010-02-02 Thread Mike Moore
On 02/02/2010, at 6:31 PM, Rob Findlay wrote: > > If it's running bonjour you can use the little freeware util, "Bonjour > Browser to" find it. Thanks Rob - Bonjour Browser has given me the IP address. Unfortunately though the printer still won't print. No matter what I do at the computer a

Re: Discovering IP Address for an HP Laserjet printer

2010-02-02 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Mike, If you log-in to your router configuration using your web-browser can't you see a list of the IP addresses allocated to connected devices? I'm going on old memories here - so its just a guess ;) Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email:

Re: Discovering IP Address for an HP Laserjet printer

2010-02-02 Thread Rob Findlay
If it's running bonjour you can use the little freeware util, "Bonjour Browser to" find it. Else if it has an IP lease from the router you can log in to the router and look at DHCP clients or attached devices. If you only have a few devices it should be pretty easy to spot. On 02/02/2010, at

Discovering IP Address for an HP Laserjet printer

2010-02-02 Thread Mike Moore
I have an HP 8550N Laserjet printer with Jetdirect card connected to my computers via the router. With Snow Leopard I can't connect to the printer. I have tried printing out the configuration page to get its IP address (as suggested in the HP help forums) but it doesn't show on that. I'd b