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simonmartin · Feb 27, 2003, 03:09 PM

Hi,

I'm trying to set up a Hewlet Packard 'OfficeJet d155xi' all in one printer/scanner/fax/teamaker thing.

I'm trying to connect to the printer over the network. I downloaded the latest driver. The auto setup wizard doesn't get past the first page, it asks for the ip address of the printer, which I give as 192.168.0.4, but it doesn't recognise it, just repeats the question.

I then launch 'Print Center', click 'Add', see that 'HPAiO print' is listed, select that but I never get an 'add' button to click, it's grayed out. I then click 'create', enter the ip address but it just presents me with the same window over again.

I *can* ping the printer on 192.168.0.4.

Anyone ever done this before?

Thanks

Simon

motti · Feb 27, 2003, 04:37 PM

perhaps you need another printer driver than the original one, try on this page if you find your printer: http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/MacOSX.php3

simonmartin · Feb 27, 2003, 04:50 PM

Originally posted by motti:
perhaps you need another printer driver than the original one, try on this page if you find your printer: http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/MacOSX.php3

Motti,

Thanks for the link, looks useful, but this particular printer isn't on their supported list.

Simon

aaanorton · Feb 27, 2003, 06:42 PM

Try adding it via IP Printing. Use that IP address and lp (lower case LP) as the queue name.

simonmartin · Feb 27, 2003, 07:07 PM

Ok, problem solved.

All I needed to do was turn on printer sharing in the system prefs.

This is not exactly intuitive as I'm not sharing the printer, just connecting to it over the network.

Anyway, it works. Printing does anyway, not sure about making the tea...

Simon

simonmartin · Feb 27, 2003, 07:11 PM

Originally posted by aaanorton:
Try adding it via IP Printing. Use that IP address and lp (lower case LP) as the queue name.

aaanorton,

Things are sorted out now but I'd like to follow what you mean...

I did get a test print of sorts out of CUPS (this is how I discovered 'printer sharing' has to be on) but it was only really working when printing pure black. Anything else came out with a very coarse halftone pattern over it.

Can you explain what you mean again, please. Maybe it was my setup in CUPS which wasn't right.

Thanks

Simon

aaanorton · Feb 27, 2003, 07:32 PM

That printer sharing thing sounds odd. How exactly do you have everything connected? Is it a shared printer or a networked printer?
I don't know about Gimp Print. If your printer is not listed, you may have problems.
What I suggested was to add the printer in Print Center using IP Printing (in the pull down menu when you hit "add"). That way you can specify the IP of the printer and the queue name, if the default doesn't work.

aaanorton · Feb 27, 2003, 07:38 PM

That printer sharing thing sounds odd. How exactly do you have everything connected? Is it a shared printer or a networked printer?
I don't know about Gimp Print. If your printer is not listed, you may have problems.
What I suggested was to add the printer in Print Center using IP Printing (in the pull down menu when you hit "add"). That way you can specify the IP of the printer and the queue name, if the default doesn't work.

Back up 15 and punt · Feb 27, 2003, 10:38 PM

Actually, setting print sharing on does make a lot of sense. Think about it. You have a printer that is using a internal print server and you have it on the network. This is a shared printer not a dedicated one.

aaanorton · Feb 27, 2003, 10:54 PM

Seeing shared printers and sharing a printer are two different things. On my LAN, I have printers networked in that are not connected directly to any computer. I do not need any kind of printer sharing to be on to see and use them. I've never seen that sort of thing before. I thought that was one of the cool things about networked printers: no need to deal with sharing. I could be wrong, though.

simonmartin · Feb 28, 2003, 03:16 AM

Originally posted by aaanorton:

That printer sharing thing sounds odd. How exactly do you have everything connected? Is it a shared printer or a networked printer?

Seeing shared printers and sharing a printer are two different things. On my LAN, I have printers networked in that are not connected directly to any computer. I do not need any kind of printer sharing to be on to see and use them. I've never seen that sort of thing before. I thought that was one of the cool things about networked printers: no need to deal with sharing. I could be wrong, though.

aaanorton,

It's hooked up to the network, but I wasn't sharing it with anyone else, although it is sharable.

I have just double checked the sharing thing and now of course it works *without* sharing turned on!

Now I'm lost...

It would definitely not *set up* without sharing on but it seems to *run* with it off.

Simon

aaanorton · Feb 28, 2003, 09:08 AM

So it's plugged (via cat 5 cable) into an ethernet hub or router?
That sharing thing was probably just some digital hiccup. Did you get IP printing going? Are you printing perfectly?

escher · Feb 28, 2003, 09:15 AM

Originally posted by Back up 15 and punt:
Actually, setting print sharing on does make a lot of sense... You have a printer that is using a internal print server and you have it on the network.

Actually, Apple's printer sharing refers to printers without an internal print-server, connected directly to a Mac (via USB). In such a setup, the Mac acts as the print server. This allows the printer to be shared over the network via that Mac (over its Ethernet port).

Escher

simonmartin · Mar 1, 2003, 03:31 AM

Originally posted by aaanorton:
So it's plugged (via cat 5 cable) into an ethernet hub or router?
That sharing thing was probably just some digital hiccup. Did you get IP printing going? Are you printing perfectly?

aaanorton,

Sorry for the delayed response...

Yes it's connected by cat 5 to a router. Once I had printersharing turned on I used the ip address to make it register and now it seems to be working perfectly.

Thanks

Simon

simonmartin · Mar 1, 2003, 03:34 AM

Originally posted by aaanorton:
Seeing shared printers and sharing a printer are two different things. On my LAN, I have printers networked in that are not connected directly to any computer. I do not need any kind of printer sharing to be on to see and use them. I've never seen that sort of thing before. I thought that was one of the cool things about networked printers: no need to deal with sharing. I could be wrong, though.

aaanorton,

I take your point. This is 'seeing a shared printer' although I'm not in fact sharing it, yet. I intend to have a go at making my wife's windoze box hook up to it next...

Simon

aaanorton · Mar 1, 2003, 10:09 AM

I'm glad it's working now. But configuring the PC to use it also still will not make it a shared printer. As someone mentioned above, a shared printer is (in Apple's view) a printer connected locally to a computer through say USB or Firewire and shared with other comps over the LAN. You simply have a networked printer: it is itself connected directly to the LAN. This is really a much better way to go than sharing printers.

simonmartin · Mar 1, 2003, 01:19 PM

Originally posted by aaanorton:
I'm glad it's working now. But configuring the PC to use it also still will not make it a shared printer. As someone mentioned above, a shared printer is (in Apple's view) a printer connected locally to a computer through say USB or Firewire and shared with other comps over the LAN. You simply have a networked printer: it is itself connected directly to the LAN. This is really a much better way to go than sharing printers.

aaanorton,

You're right of course, this is a networked printer. Seems to be working fine now although I still have no clue as to what I did to make it set up properly, other than start printer sharing, which I have now turned off again...

Simon