Help with Printer Server

[blues008]

Hi all,

I have a year old HP laserjet printer and a Hawking Technology print server.

I've attached the HP printer to the printer server via USB.

I've assigned a static IP address to the print server, and I'm not sure what to do next.

Should I enable DHCP on the print server? And if so, how do I go about finding the printer on the network to add it to a workstation?

Thanks!

 

[OdiN]

A static IP is what is best. Does the print server have a queue name? If it has a Queue name, let me know and I can help you with that.

If you just have the IP, you need to add the printer as a LOCAL printer, not network printer. Then choose to create a new port and choose Standard TCP/IP port. It will ask for the name or IP, put in the IP, you can name it something descriptive instead of the standard IP_xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx that it will put in. From here it should work depending on the print server. You may need to put in a queue name for it to work best, but try this first.

Do not enable DHCP as it doesn't work as well this way. It's always better if you know the IP for sure and don't have to rely on the devices name. With a hard set IP you can always ping it to see if you can reach it and you have more testing options available.