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[Phillip Powell]

Bill, see below, thanx!

Kamm, William R (Bill), ALABS wrote:

>Here is how I set mine up on my home network:
>
>1. Assign the printer an IP address.  For example, 192.168.1.___.  I
>can't help you with this, you need to look that up in the manual.
>  
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We've already done that step a long time ago as a matter of fact.  I was 
able to even view the webpage generated by opening a browser and putting 
in the IP for the printer on the "good" and "bad" machines.

>2. Click Start --> Settings --> Printers and Faxes, then Add Printer.
>
>3. Click Next on the first wizard page.
>
>4. This is where Microsoft screwed up.  DON'T click the "Network
>printer" radio button.  Instead, click "Local printer attached to this
>computer".  Yeah, it makes no sense at all, but it works.  Uncheck the
>"Automatically detect" checkbox, and click Next.
>  
>
All of the other PCs are set up this way already for configuration with 
the printer.

>5. Select the "Create a new port" radio button, and select "Standard
>TCP/IP Port" from the dropdown list.  Click Next.
>  
>

Actually, that port had already existed.  For good measure I deleted 
that port and recreated it entering the IP address (see Step 7).

>6. As the next screen says, make sure the printer is powered on and is
>on the network.  Click Next.
>
>7. Type in the IP address, and the port name will be automatically
>filled in.  Click Next.
>
>8. After that, just follow the prompts to find your printer from the
>list, assign it a name, and print a test page.
>  
>

Bill, I did all of that last night, to no avail.  It would still not 
print when set up this way; even though the other machines were set up 
exactly in this format to a tee and can print, the 2 other machines 
could not.  I had managed to connect to a network printer using the 
network domain workgroup name and it worked until this morning - no 
explanation whatsoever, it just stopped working!

>Bill
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: talk-bounces at lists.nyphp.org [mailto:talk-bounces at lists.nyphp.org]
>On Behalf Of Phillip Powell
>Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 10:01 AM
>To: NYPHP Talk
>Subject: Re: [nycphp-talk] OT: Need help with XP and HP LaserJet 2200
>
>
>It's attached via RJ45 Ethernet.  And the company is getting someone 
>else to do it apparently at this point.  I had it working last night 
>whereby I was able to add them to the network workgroup (rather, re-add 
>them) and then was able to print; somehow, they can't print anymore.
>
>Phil
>
>Kamm, William R (Bill), ALABS wrote:
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>>How is the printer attached?  Ethernet?  USB?  Parallel/Centronix?  If 
>>it is networked (RJ45 Ethernet), configuration is not that simple.  If 
>>you follow the print wizard, you will go wrong.  Let me know, maybe I 
>>can help.
>>
>>Bill
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: talk-bounces at lists.nyphp.org 
>>[mailto:talk-bounces at lists.nyphp.org]
>>On Behalf Of Phillip Powell
>>Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 7:40 PM
>>To: NYPHP Talk
>>Subject: [nycphp-talk] OT: Need help with XP and HP LaserJet 2200
>>
>>
>>Sorry, I've turned to everyone I know, and everyone I know knows Linux
>>now (including me) and not XP.  Barring reconfiguring everything to RH 
>>(dream, but not reality):
>>
>>We have two new XP-enabled machines here at work and neither will print
>>using our existing HP LaserJet 2200 Series PCL 6.  I downloaded the 
>>proper drivers from http://www.hp.com and attempted several 
>>reinstallations of printers, to no avail.
>>
>>Each time it will attempt to print, only to time out and throw a
>>timeout-related error each time it tries to print: "The document has 
>>failed to print".
>>
>>Has anyone out there had experience working with both XP and HP 
>>LaserJet
>>
>>printers? I am on a serious time crunch and have to have this 
>>configured
>>
>>by morning and I'm stuck!
>>
>>Help!
>>
>>Thanx
>>Phil
>>
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