Networked printer shows as "offline" after reboot router

[nippyjun]

I have an HP all in one that is wireless and wired. My laptop connects to it wirelessly.

Every so ofter i have to power down my router and then restart it.

After i do that my laptop usually shows the printer as being offline.

I have to delete the printer then have it find it again.

Is there a way to have it find it again without deleting it first.

 

[tomt4535]

Sounds like the printer is getting a DHCP address and when you reboot the router it gives it a different IP. You can try setting a static IP on the printer so it will never change and you wont have to reinstall every time.

 

[JackMDS]

If your Router does IP reservation, log to it and check the printer entry to be reserved.

By doing so the printer would stay on the same IP.

http://www.ezlan.net/faq.html#2nics

 

[nippyjun]

One thing i forgot to mention. the laptop with the issue is a vista one, my macbook pro doesn't have the issue, it finds the printer after the router is turned off then on.

Does that matter?

 

[nippyjun]

I have an update. I set the ip on the printer itself to a static one and all seems to be well.

Thanks for your input.

 

[kevnich2]

Servers, printers, pretty much anything that other computers will access, should be either on static IP (make sure it's an IP that is OUTSIDE of the DHCP range) or as Jack mentioned, a static DHCP or reserved DHCP address (the same IP will always be given to that particular machine or device). If you did set it up as a static IP, look at your router's DHCP range and make sure the static IP is outside of that range (ie, if range is 192.168.1.100-192.168.1.150, your static should be 192.168.1.99) Or else you'll eventually come across IP address conflicts.