How do I find my printers IP address

[Chris Wool]

i would expect to find it in the printer menu system does the printer have a network port ?

[Stafford Cox]

What printer is it John? Some printers (Epson in particular) have a network card option and on those option cards there’s a little black button which will print out the status of the card. That will contain the IP address. Failing that, if it’s set up to automatically obtain an IP address, you should be able to find out from the connected devices list on your router.

I hope that makes sense?

Stafford

[Colin Crabb]

If it connect via USB, it wouldn’t use an IP address – IP addresses would be for a networked system

USB is (mainly) for direct connection to a PC – You can use a USB to Network Adapter, cost about £25 ish (We just networked out cutter using an adaptor)

Is the printer not detected at all once plugged into the USB port?

[John Thomson]

Thanks for your input.

the printer is a Chinese Epson DX7 machine…..I can hear you all groan LOL

Chris it has no menu….ALL parameters are handled by the Epson control software that was supplied with it…….basically anything you would set or adjust on my Mimaki with the keypad is controlled via the Epson software…..plus a whole lot more.

I came with the standard Chinese Maintop rip which works through the Epson control software…..this was the software used at last years sign Uk to run the Galaxy Printek machines…..does the job but I am used to Photoprint (Flexisign) so added this as an upgrade.

The Epson control software installed a driver which appears in Windows/control panel/device manager/hardware/universal bus contollers as epson5.

The printer is connected to a pc via usb….the pc I have connected is old but I have a new laptop arriving tomorrow.

When installing the printer in Photoprint as tt-4c-eco ( as per manufacturers instructions) I do not get a valid port option…..but I do get TCP/IP

i will email the manufacturer tech and see what he says

John

[Adrian Hewson]

HI JOhn dont know fully your set up but I am old cant

from your computer start go to accessories and then find command prompt, in old days this was caled the dos prompt

from the dos prompt (c:\) type the command ipconfig this should show you the ip addresses of all items connected to your computer LOL

[Kevin Flowers]

John
when you are in production manager you select your printer make then model, does the ip box automatically come up when you press next. If it does cancel it by pressing the cross in the corner now press browse and it should give you alternative ports. Can’t check it 100% as don’t have that make listed in my version of Flexi

Kev

[John Thomson]

Kevin in production manager the port options I have are

FILE
TITAN
FOLDER
desktop/pdf
FTDIUSBport
MYDOCUMENTS/*pdf
TCP/IP
XPSport

I am guessing the Titan port is the one I should be looking at.

John