one of the areas I support has purchased a HP 1320n laser printer to
be networked for 3 people.
I have tried setting it up on both an OSX mac and a Win XP printer
and in both cases can get it to print via USB but via ethernet it is
constantly coming up with the IP address of 192.0.0.192.
Trying to change the IP number through the HP toolkit - either
through USB connection or ethernet doesn't actually change the IP
number.
Changing settings through HP toolkit and the printer connected with
the usb configuration it hangs the printer with the 3 flashing lights
for "fatal error" and a restart of the printer results in the same
old invalid IP number.
Putting the computer (again ether mac or WinXP) with a crossover
cable plugged in to the printer's ethernet port and the computer
configured to the same network subnet results in the computer running
the HP toolkit program ( a java program run through a web interface)
saying that there is no network connection to the loop back
address:port number even with firewall turned off or the port number
for the toolkits service manually entered in to the machines firewall
list. changing the loop back number in the URL to the machine's IP
still results in a "no network connection" error on the valid
IP:port#.
Mac and Windows computers using Zero config/rendezvous sees the
printer but can not print because of the invalid IP number.
HP's online help and included PDF manual says that to get a valid IP
number to turn the printer off, hold down the network config button
and turn the printer back on..... however the sub net it is on
doesn't have DHCP enabled and the printer keeps returning to the
same 139.0.0.139 address.
any ideas apart from setting it up as a local USB printer and sharing it?
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Mark Secker Computer Support Officer
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University of Western Australia - CRICOS Provider No. 00126G
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