Nooblah

Hi all,

This is quite urgent, so I would appreciate your help as soon as possible. I've just removed a whole huge mess of a network at a family member's house and instead added a simple wireless network. The network is up and running fine, but I'm having some trouble with the printers. Prior to this network, the main printer was plugged into a router. All of the computers on the network are therefore set up to print from a printer connected to a remote device. I've now plugged in the printer into one of the network computer's LPT1 port, but I'm having some trouble getting it to work. The drivers are installed and the printer is recognized, but it won't print (neither from a remote computer nor locally).

The printer is a Kyocera FS-1000+. When I look at the printer's properties under the "ports" tab I see the following:



However, when I try add a new port (LPT1) I have only two port types available: pcAnywhere Remote Printing or Standard TCP/IP Port.

The printer is using (and was previously working on) Microsoft drivers, and so the remote operations panel is not available to me. I attempted to download the drivers for the printer and install them. Everything was going fine until I reached a screen which said "Select the Printer Port", and gave me the same two options that I listed earlier, bringing me back to the same problem. I don't understand why I'm not able to add the LPT1 port. It's listed in the device manager, and I know for a fact that it is working because there was another printer plugged into it a while ago.


When I attempt to print the error is:

There was an error found when printing the document "<Documentname>" to IP_10.0.0.105. Do you want to retry or cancel the job?

Can anyone help?

techpro5238

Hi Nooblah and welcome to TSF

Can you try connecting it into a print server on the router and assigning it to the IP Address of 10.0.0.105. I am not sure on how to fix it, but maybe you could try using a program to create virtual LPT1 ports?