I have an H-P Color LaserJet 2500tn, which has worked fairly well for the past year and a half or so. I would like to check the ink levels to know whether I need new cartridges, though, and the only way to do that is by connecting to the printer's embedded web-server.
This printer is connected to the local ethernet, and I connect to it by AppleTalk over ethernet. It has an address on the AppleTalk network, but I can't connect that way - I have to use an IP address. When I contacted H-P about this a year ago, they told me to assume the printer's internal interface was still at the factory setting of 192.0.0.192; what I had to do was to temporartily make my own IP address 192.0.0.193 and then open a web browser to 192.0.0.192. That worked then...but it doesn't work now. Now when I try to connect this way, I get a message that "Macintosh OS is not supported for this application." The message appears in some fairly nice font, so I assume it's actually coming from the printer. But why can't I cannect to it any more, and is there any way to get around this? I haven't modified the printer itself in any way - the only thing that's changed as far as I can see is that I'm running Panther (10.3.3) now instead of 10.2.4.
H-P told me CUPS would only screw up the printer, so that's not the answer.
-- Steve Anderson
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