Well I finally got the two pages to print that I needed. I usually leave
the printer turned on all the time but this morning I decided to turn it
off for several hours. That allowed it to print when I tried just a
couple of minutes ago. I guess it was just to hot for a long time.
For the network part that printer is just hooked directly to my Linksys
WRT54G just like the computer with an ethernet cable. Never did
get that link to work. It printed through the parallel cable. I got it for
50 bucks so I am not about to spend money on getting a mac computer
just to manage it. My printing needs are just a couple of pages a
month and now a days one can buy a new printer from WalMart for
$29. That's cheaper that getting refill cartridges for a jet type printer.
I would still like to get the printer to print through my net if I can do it
with the hardware I have. I have learned one thing and that is if I get
another lan printer it must have the ability to manage it with an
onboard keypad and lcd output independently of any computer system.
By the way the two pages were of architectural drawings of apartments
that my contractor needs for a project and I told him I would give them
to him this morning so I dodged the silver bullet this time.
Thanks for all your help and research. Someone should write up a little
tutorial on how to do what I am attempting but that probably won't
happen since all this stuff is out of date and not supported anymore.
I even tried NMAP to scan my network and it didn't pick up anything.
My net cables are all tested good.
My monitor went bad last night luckily I had another to replace it.
Sometimes the bear gets you and sometimes you get the bear.
later.....
"Irv" wrote in message
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maybe you can look at the connections table on the router and see if an
addfress is missing.
i know that our router skips the addresses assigned to printers.
does the printer have a display.
i would try the win 95 program.
there is a way you can tell windows to run it as a win95 program so maybe
you can get somewhere after all.
"***** charles" wrote in message
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Thanks for the links. Some I had already seen. None say how to get
the IP address of the printer. Chicken and egg problem - you have
to know the ip to manage the ip. I have no MacIntosh computers so
I can't use the printer utility about which they speak. I don't have a
Windows 95 machine either. There seems to be a utility program that
runs on 95 but I don't think it works with 2000.
I have had the printer connected to the 2000 machine with the parallel
port and the proper driver was loaded. It has printed pages out before
but now it just sits there and doesn't respond when I send a print job
to it. Eventually it just times out and gives me a printing error.
That's
when I thought that switching to a network link might work. I have
tried disconnecting and reconnecting, unloading and reloading drivers
and no response for the parrallel connection. I installed the unix
printing stuff about which the articles speak but untill I know the IP
address of the printer, I am stuck.
later.....
"Irv" wrote in message
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hey Charles
hopefully, these links combined will get you going.
looks like special stuff for that printer when using win2k.
good luck.
http://www.whoopis.com/howtos/laserwriter16-600/
http://cag.csail.mit.edu/~mtaylor/7300N
http://www-jerry.oit.duke.edu/commun...p_printer.html
https://webserver.brandeis.edu/pages...etworkPrinting
"***** charles" wrote in message
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Hi all,
I have a Laserwriter 16/600PS that is connected to my lan
with ethernet. I also have a Windows 2000 Pro machine
that I have to get to print to this thing. How do I determine
the IP address of the printer? and How do I set up 2K
to print to the thing?
thanks a bunch,
charles......