Reinstalling a printer

[davebrittain]

if you running x p go into start > settings > printers >add printer
if youve got software that cam with your printer eg drivers install them
if not plug in your printer go into controll pannell and detect new hardware
you can do it manualy from here or try to cetect it auto first

[Chris Wool]

if its a network printer the rip need to know the printers address you should have softwear with it to find it

Chris

[Andy@Acorn]

Managed to get it working through an LPT port but its painfully slow. Before we had it going through a Lan cable. How we get it back on that is anyones guess. Havent got a disk with it. Got it from Victory (not the best people for support). Seem to be missing a “PCI” Driver and an “Ethernet” Driver.
They dont make these things simple do they 🙁

Anyway cheers for your help chaps 😀

[Chris Wool]

quote :

“PCI” Driver and an “Ethernet” Driver.

THEY SHOULD HAVE LOADED WHEN YOU DID A REINSTALL as i understand it you now need a print server disk that finds the address of the printer you then enter that address in to the rip – i dint know of any other way but then again any thing on the network side of things takes me ages.

Chris

[Chris Hooper]

Had a similar problem today – the computer could not “see” the printer. I have it connected via local network connection. No idea why it lost it in the first place.

As per mrsticket (chris) advice – I solved the prob by going to my rip software and specifying under TCP/IP settings the address (along the lines of 192.168.001.002)

I got the IP address from printer – by switching on it displayed as part of the warm up its IP address.

Chris

[Chris Hooper]

Had another look at this – and to to quickly find all of the IP addresses of your network adapters you can use the IPCONFIG /ALL command.

In XP choose “start” – “run” and from the command prompt type IPCONFIG /ALL it should list all your IP addresses one of which will be your printer.

Not sure if this is the problem – however it may help.

Chris

[Jayne Marsh]

Once you have the ethernet card working, you will have to set the IP address to the same group as your print server eg 192.168.0.2 for your PC if the print server is set to for example 192.168.0.7 and the subnet mask to 255.255.255.0 for both, if your pc is on a net work make sure the addresses match the system, you may need to download the drivers for the print server, so you can set it up, if you use Flexi sign or the like you just type in the ip address in the port settings and it should go ok, aslong as the rest has been set up.

hope this helps

[Jayne Marsh]

That last post was done by Jeff (Graphtec)
He should have signed himself in first, apologies for any confusion 😳

[andymalc]

seh manufacture network parallel port connection devices for Roland and various others. IF you have installed sp2 on xp then maybe you need to download a sentinel device driver for xp. (rainbow.com) seh have a free download software to search our network devices.