wireless printing issue

masterplumber · 01-07-2008, 01:50 PM

Ok I would appreciate any help i can get here I really don't know where to begin myself i am a little computer illiterate. Anyway I have 2 notebook computers in the house and i had the 1 printer hooked up wirelessly through a print server the print server is netgear ps121 I have a hp pavilion running vista with amd turion 64x2. Everything was working great until about 2 weeks ago. Then all of a sudden when I try to print something nothing will happen. When I open up the active printer window usually the initial thing i notice is it will say the printing is paused then I click to unpause printing and the status will change to printing but still nothing will print. If I plug the printer into either computer directly it works fine but i dont want to have to do that every time i want to print something. Ok also the printer is hp 1350 psc all-in-one. Please if someone could help me out i would be very thankful. thanks again

**Raylo** · 01-12-2008, 04:40 PM

It is possible that if there was a power outage that the ip address of the printserver changed when everything restarted. If that is the case, you could have an ip conflict on your network and the print job goes to a dead address or another address that isn't the print server. The easiest "literate" way to recover is to go to printer properties and see what ip address the printer is ported to. Then open up the printserver web interface (see the documentation for the interface ip address) and set its ip address to the number you found in printer properties... and make sure you set it to static ip address not DHCP. The easiest "non-literate" way to recover might be to delete the printers from you computers then reinstall everything. But you need to make sure you set the printserver for static ip address.

masterplumber · 01-12-2008, 07:44 PM

I just wanted to say thank you for helping me out. I didnt realize something like that could happen. I appreciate the advice it helped me out a great deal and i now have full use of my printer wirelessly again.. so thanks again

heero1 · 01-13-2008, 02:09 AM

Hi,
I have two desktop running one in each room connected with wired netgear router. I just brought all in 1 hp printer. Please advice me how i should connect this computer so that both desktop computers can share this printer. Desktops running on windows xp professional and windows xp home. Please give me step by step instructions.
Thank you in advance

**Raylo** · 01-13-2008, 11:51 AM

Good job plumber! Maybe you can help me out with a plumbing problem sometime.

One other hint that I just learned here recently that makes perfect sense... If you go to your router setup it will have a DHCP starting address and a number of users. That defines the range of ip addresses the router will assign to devices configured to receive ip addresses via DHCP as they come on the network.

So, you want to make sure that any devices you assign static ip addresses are outside the router DHCP range or you might get conflicts as DHCP devices leave and reenter the network.

01-07-2008, 01:50 PM	#1 (permalink)
masterplumber Registered User Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 2 OS: Vista	wireless printing issue Ok I would appreciate any help i can get here I really don't know where to begin myself i am a little computer illiterate. Anyway I have 2 notebook computers in the house and i had the 1 printer hooked up wirelessly through a print server the print server is netgear ps121 I have a hp pavilion running vista with amd turion 64x2. Everything was working great until about 2 weeks ago. Then all of a sudden when I try to print something nothing will happen. When I open up the active printer window usually the initial thing i notice is it will say the printing is paused then I click to unpause printing and the status will change to printing but still nothing will print. If I plug the printer into either computer directly it works fine but i dont want to have to do that every time i want to print something. Ok also the printer is hp 1350 psc all-in-one. Please if someone could help me out i would be very thankful. thanks again

01-12-2008, 04:40 PM	#2 (permalink)
Raylo TSF Enthusiast Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Maryland, USA Posts: 525 OS: XP Desktop, Vista HP Notebook, XP Notebook	Re: wireless printing issue It is possible that if there was a power outage that the ip address of the printserver changed when everything restarted. If that is the case, you could have an ip conflict on your network and the print job goes to a dead address or another address that isn't the print server. The easiest "literate" way to recover is to go to printer properties and see what ip address the printer is ported to. Then open up the printserver web interface (see the documentation for the interface ip address) and set its ip address to the number you found in printer properties... and make sure you set it to static ip address not DHCP. The easiest "non-literate" way to recover might be to delete the printers from you computers then reinstall everything. But you need to make sure you set the printserver for static ip address.

01-12-2008, 07:44 PM	#3 (permalink)
masterplumber Registered User Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 2 OS: Vista	Re: wireless printing issue I just wanted to say thank you for helping me out. I didnt realize something like that could happen. I appreciate the advice it helped me out a great deal and i now have full use of my printer wirelessly again.. so thanks again

01-13-2008, 02:09 AM	#4 (permalink)
heero1 Registered User Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: london Posts: 28 OS: window xp	sharing 1 printer with 2 desktops Hi, I have two desktop running one in each room connected with wired netgear router. I just brought all in 1 hp printer. Please advice me how i should connect this computer so that both desktop computers can share this printer. Desktops running on windows xp professional and windows xp home. Please give me step by step instructions. Thank you in advance

01-13-2008, 11:51 AM	#5 (permalink)
Raylo TSF Enthusiast Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Maryland, USA Posts: 525 OS: XP Desktop, Vista HP Notebook, XP Notebook	Re: wireless printing issue Good job plumber! Maybe you can help me out with a plumbing problem sometime. One other hint that I just learned here recently that makes perfect sense... If you go to your router setup it will have a DHCP starting address and a number of users. That defines the range of ip addresses the router will assign to devices configured to receive ip addresses via DHCP as they come on the network. So, you want to make sure that any devices you assign static ip addresses are outside the router DHCP range or you might get conflicts as DHCP devices leave and reenter the network.