Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/04/21

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Subject: [Leica] Another failure of Epson 3800 printer
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 07:08:30 +0530
References: <2D08227CEF6335E1FE8FF744@hindolveston.reid.org> <3e7573d40904192041i695e7eb7r49b6c20fbe8bc560@mail.gmail.com> <AE31EF2FAA8D079FD7B9283B@hindolveston.reid.org> <20090420193234.GP18658@jbm.org> <6EDB824EAEE6F555690E9384@hindolveston.reid.org> <06068999-9B06-44E0-8674-CC2998E185A0@aotera.org>

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
>
>
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