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rcurl
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response 78 of 86:
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Jan 24 04:58 UTC 2008 |
I got it to work with the DHCP IP address. The Mac Help helped but the
procedure is not intuitive. What led me astray is that when I installed
the printer software, it showed up in the printer selection menu, which I
thought meant that it saw the printer. But no: one has still to Add the
printer and give it an arbitrary name and location. There is then an
obscure menu, which is hard to find, where one chooses the make and model
of the printer (there are hundreds listed!).
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nharmon
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response 79 of 86:
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Jan 24 05:16 UTC 2008 |
Well, as unintuitive as it might have seemed, I can assure you it would
have been much more confusing in Windows. :)
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nharmon
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response 80 of 86:
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Jan 24 05:20 UTC 2008 |
Case in point: My networked laser printer is in the basement while my
windows PC is on the 2nd floor. If I add the printer to the windows PC,
the "add printer wizard" asks if it is a local or network printer. You
have to answer "local" in order to install it.
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rcurl
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response 81 of 86:
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Jan 24 22:10 UTC 2008 |
Another problem I had while trying to get to print across the network was that
my wife was watching streaming video on the wired LAN while I was trying to
print wirelessly from the laptop, which so jammed he pipe that none of my
packets got to the printer until she shut down.
I'm now wondering if I even had to install the printer driver on the
laotop, since one of the steps in adding the printer was selecting a make
and model from a dialog. Does OS 10.4 already have printer drivers?
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arthurp
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response 82 of 86:
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Jan 27 23:43 UTC 2008 |
Often there is a list of printers for you to install. And often the
printer you have is not in that list until you install the software that
came with it.
Just to add some complexity here, if you can figure out how to force the
base station to assign the same IP every time, or how to assign to the
printer a static IP on the same network segment but outside the DHCP
range, you may save yourself some trouble later on if the base station
should ever decide to assign a different IP to the printer. Or you
could just remember that this is a possibility and if the printer every
mysteriously stops working start by checking what IP it is using.
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rcurl
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response 83 of 86:
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Jan 29 05:47 UTC 2008 |
I'll keep that in mind. So far, the IP assignments have been stable. I
don't know where they come from, though.
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rcurl
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response 84 of 86:
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Jan 31 22:32 UTC 2008 |
The success I had in printing mentioned above was a one line test phrase. Now
I am been trying to print a two page WORD document. I had two types of
failures on repeated attempts:
1. After an hour or so *trying* to print, I got "Print file was was not
accepted (client-error-not-found)!
or
2. Error dialog "printer busy, will retry in 10 sec". This every now and then
printed either a blank page or a page with just the first line of the
document.
What's gumming it up? Could it be the driver I installed when I really did
not have to?
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gull
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response 85 of 86:
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Feb 6 20:38 UTC 2008 |
Re resp:80: Yeah, the Windows idea of "local printers" and "network
printers'"is utterly confusing until you realize it's really asking
whether it's a local *queue* or not.
I suspect what Microsoft expects is that you'll tie all your network
printers to one central Windows server, and then let all your desktop
systems print through that machine, making the difference moot for
typical users.
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rcurl
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response 86 of 86:
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Feb 7 17:42 UTC 2008 |
I wrote Brother (the printer maker) about the problem and they sent me the
standard procedure for installing a printer uner OS X 10.4 on a network -
but not on a composite wired and wireless network like I have. Anyway, I
tried what they suggested, and it didn't work. Now I'm inquiring on an
apple.com forum. It's a problem, though, in getting answers when the
system involves a Mac computer and an Apple Airport router, a Brother
printer, and a MacWireless adapter. Probably as bad as a Windows
system....
Yes, the usual assumption in printing with an Airport WiFi system is that
the printer is plugged in a USB or Ethernet port on the router. The
Airport manual doesn't address the option of a LAN connected to the router
wirelessly.
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