Re: Print function does not work on new printer

Guy DeStefano wrote:
Malke, Thank you very much for the reply. You were right, during installation,
I could not get the networking part to work, so choose local computer.
I did the installation over, and coming to network, I looked at the properties, and
it had an IP address of 169.254.254.57 I enetred this in the IP address and it
continued installation to the end. I have a home network, that consists of a
DSL Modem -> PIX501 -> Linksys SD2008 -> computers using addresses
of 192.168.1.1 ( PIX ) thru 192.168.1.16. With the above address, it does not
look like it is in the network?
(snippage)

The 169.* address indicates that your printer did not get an IP address. I don't know why except that perhaps your Linksys or modem don't do DHCP and you had to assign static IP's to all your computers. I'm not familiar with that model Linksys or your modem but that's my best guess.

Read the instructions (or look on HP's website) for how to manually set a static IP address for your printer. Choose something like 192.168.1.200. Your computers will never communicate to that printer until the printer has an IP address on the same subnet as the computers.


Malke
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