Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/04/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Brian, Cant you run it as a local printer off your server, or one of the machines in your network, and then print through that? I have an Epson 2400 attached to my desktop, and a cheapo HP attached to the homeserver, and both work extremely well, and anyone on the network can print on either. Cheers Jayanand On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 12:50 AM, Spencer Cheng <scheng at aotera.org> wrote: > Hi Brian, > > On Apr 21, 2009, at 13:08, Brian Reid wrote: > > [...] >> For the tech-minded among you: it comes up with an IP address of >> 169.254.183.253 and won't DHCP or take reconfiguration from the panel. But >> the Bonjour protocols let Epson Net Config talk to it without needing an >> IP >> address, and then Epson Net Config can send a layer-2 message to its MAC >> address that instructs it to set its IP and netmask properly. Then you >> delete and reinstall the print driver and it's a printer again. >> >> > > 169.254.183.253 is a self assigned IP which means the 3800's network > interface/driver is in snit mode (but you know that already. :) > > My condolences though I have to ask - why don't you return the printer next > weekend and get something more reliable? Life is too short and hobby time > is > too precious to continually futz with unreliable printers. What's your time > worth? Doesn't matter that Epson is willing to send you more (flakey) > printers until your warranty expires. > > Regards, > Spencer > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >