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What's the trick to make Ethernet work on an HP 2100TN printer?
In another thread, I mentioned a friend gave me a printer.
Here is a picture of the HP LaserJet 2100TN hooked up at my house: http://i42.tinypic.com/kxq9t.gif The friend had it on AppleTalk (Macintosh), but I'm Windows and Linux (XP and Ubuntu). I plugged the printer into the router by the ethernet cable, and rebooted. Nothing happened on the WinXP PC connected to the same router by ethernet cable. Nothing happened on the Ubuntu laptop connected wirelessly by the same cable. Nor on the Android phone. Probably I need drivers, but, when I went to the HP support page, they had tons of drivers. But which one is the one needed to enable the WinXP PC (and the other PCs connected wirelessly to the router) to see the printer? http://i42.tinypic.com/2ro52ty.gif Which of those drivers will make the ethernet work? 1. hp LaserJet 2100 PCL 5e Printer Driver 2. hp LaserJet 2100 PCL 6 Printer Driver 3. hp LaserJet 2100 PCL 5e point and print bundles 4. hp LaserJet 2100 PCL 6 point and print bundles 5. 3 - HP Universal Print Driver for Windows PCL5 6. HP Printer Administrator Resource Kit Or is there another trick to making the printer show up to Windows XP? (The workgroup is "HOME" for the WinXP PC.) |
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What's the trick to make Ethernet work on an HP 2100TN printer?
Misha wrote:
In another thread, I mentioned a friend gave me a printer. Here is a picture of the HP LaserJet 2100TN hooked up at my house: http://i42.tinypic.com/kxq9t.gif The friend had it on AppleTalk (Macintosh), but I'm Windows and Linux (XP and Ubuntu). I plugged the printer into the router by the ethernet cable, and rebooted. Nothing happened on the WinXP PC connected to the same router by ethernet cable. Nothing happened on the Ubuntu laptop connected wirelessly by the same cable. Nor on the Android phone. Probably I need drivers, but, when I went to the HP support page, they had tons of drivers. But which one is the one needed to enable the WinXP PC (and the other PCs connected wirelessly to the router) to see the printer? http://i42.tinypic.com/2ro52ty.gif Which of those drivers will make the ethernet work? 1. hp LaserJet 2100 PCL 5e Printer Driver 2. hp LaserJet 2100 PCL 6 Printer Driver 3. hp LaserJet 2100 PCL 5e point and print bundles 4. hp LaserJet 2100 PCL 6 point and print bundles 5. 3 - HP Universal Print Driver for Windows PCL5 6. HP Printer Administrator Resource Kit Or is there another trick to making the printer show up to Windows XP? (The workgroup is "HOME" for the WinXP PC.) You need to assign an IP address to the printer, one that resides within your existing IP scheme. Install the drivers on the respective computer. I would use the PCL 6 and print bundles. I have no idea about the Linux machine. If the printer drivers to not automatically find the printer you will have to create a printer port pointed at the IP address of the printer A very brief overview of how it's done. -- PV When you are dead, you don't know you are dead. It is only difficult for others. It is the same when you are stupid |
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What's the trick to make Ethernet work on an HP 2100TN printer?
Or is there another trick to making the printer show up to Windows XP?
(The workgroup is "HOME" for the WinXP PC.) Reading this service manual: http://www.lbrty.com/tech/Manuals_HP/2100sm.pdf Page 140 seemed the most likely for network configuration, but, there was really nothing there that could actually be used. I went to the IP address of the printer using the web, and it wanted me to install a Java plugin, so, I'm hoping Java will get the HP 2100TN printer visible on the WinXP PC network. http://i42.tinypic.com/2ilbm13.gif |
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What's the trick to make Ethernet work on an HP 2100TN printer?
On Sat, 07 Sep 2013 23:08:50 -0600, PV wrote:
I would use the PCL 6 and print bundles. OK. I'll install the one called: 4. hp LaserJet 2100 PCL 6 point and print bundles You need to assign an IP address to the printer, one that resides within your existing IP scheme. It seems (from the printouts my friend provided with the machine) that the HP LaserJet 2100TN printer had an IP address at my friend's house of 192.168.1.116. Interestingly, my router is at 192.168.1.1, and, when I printed a test page, it showed the printer *still* has that IP address, but this time, on my network. Just to see what happens, I pointed my WinXP browser to that URL: http://192.168.1.116 (on port 80) And, well, it found *something* ... http://i42.tinypic.com/2ilbm13.gif |
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What's the trick to make Ethernet work on an HP 2100TN printer?
On 08 Sep 2013 04:15:58 GMT, Misha wrote:
I plugged the printer into the router by the ethernet cable, and rebooted. Nothing happened on the WinXP PC connected to the same router by ethernet cable. Go to Control Panel Printers Add a new printer On W7 you can go directly to Devices and Printers, but I forget on XP so I know you can go through Control Panel |
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What's the trick to make Ethernet work on an HP 2100TN printer?
On Sun, 08 Sep 2013 01:36:47 -0400, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
Go to Control Panel Printers Add a new printer The funny thing is that my friend gave me only a power cord. There is no direct connection to the printer from the Windows XP desktop. The WinXP desktop is connected to the home broadband router via an ethernet cable just like the printer is currently connected to that same router by an ethernet cable. So when I go to Start-Settings-Control Panel in WinXP, I can go to "Printers & Faxes-Add Printer", which takes me to the "Welcoem to the Add Printer Wizard". For the first time in my life, I check the "Network Printer" radio dial even though there is a note at the bottom saying: "To set up a network printer that is not attached to a print server, use the "Local printer" option". http://i43.tinypic.com/2w583fn.gif Hmmm... do I have a print server or not? |
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What's the trick to make Ethernet work on an HP 2100TN printer?
On Sun, 08 Sep 2013 05:49:24 +0000, Misha wrote:
For the first time in my life, I check the "Network Printer" radio dial even though there is a note at the bottom saying: "To set up a network printer that is not attached to a print server, use the "Local printer" option". http://i43.tinypic.com/2w583fn.gif Hmmm... do I have a print server or not? Well, moving forward, blindly guessing, selecting this failed: (o)Connect to a printer on the Internet or on a home or office network URL = http://192.168.1.116 The error was: Windows cannot connect to the printer... http://i44.tinypic.com/iqy6j8.gif So, I must not be specifying the printer address correctly. Or, it's the wrong button to check in the printer control panel applet. |
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What's the trick to make Ethernet work on an HP 2100TN printer?
On Sun, 08 Sep 2013 06:09:27 +0000, Misha wrote:
So, I must not be specifying the printer address correctly. Or, it's the wrong button to check in the printer control panel applet. Going back to the web browser URL to the printer, after installing Java on WinXP, and, after agreeing to an ominous warning: http://i40.tinypic.com/2hdsgue.jpg I now see that the web browser communicates just fine with the printer. http://i43.tinypic.com/2eam1cz.jpg I think I'm close. I just don't know how to tell WinXP explicitly what the printer name is that is attached to the router. And, Windows XP doesn't know how to find that printer which is connected to the router by a similar wire that it is. I do have a Win7 machine handy on the same network (wirelessly though), so I'll see what the magic name might be from Windows 7 standpoints. |
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What's the trick to make Ethernet work on an HP 2100TN printer?
On Sun, 08 Sep 2013 00:35:51 -0700, Tony Hwang wrote:
Can you ping the printer? Can you do ipconfig /all and ipconfig /renew from the XP machine? Pinging from Windows XP worked just fine: C:\ ping 192.168.1.116 http://i43.tinypic.com/vqp7p3.gif I ran the ipconfig commands, but, they didn't really need to be run since the ping already found the printer. So, the printer (which is connected to the router), is clearly on the network. The trick is figuring out how to tell Windows XP that the printer is on the network. I'm also trying to set it up as a TCP/IP printer, whatever that is (in the Add New Printer Wizard): http://i43.tinypic.com/afijae.gif But, the problem is that there are so many wrong turns one can take that I must be taking them all because I don't know the proper sequence for setting up a networked printer. |
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What's the trick to make Ethernet work on an HP 2100TN printer?
On Sun, 08 Sep 2013 06:48:33 +0000, Misha wrote:
I'm also trying to set it up as a TCP/IP printer, whatever that is (in the Add New Printer Wizard): http://i43.tinypic.com/afijae.gif But, the problem is that there are so many wrong turns one can take that I must be taking them all because I don't know the proper sequence for setting up a networked printer. OK. I got it working by that method above. Here is the entire sequence, documented in screenshots: http://i41.tinypic.com/vi39lt.jpg Whew! That was *not* intuitive! |
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