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zione1 · 06-10-2001, 10:26 PM

The other printers are actually high speed copiers that have proprietary network cards built into them. I don't use any administration software to setup them up or manage them cause I don't really have a need for it. Our network consists of 8 PC's, 5 printers, and a server.
What I do to set them up is this, on the printers themselves I key in the appropriate ip and subnet mask, on the server I go to add printer, I then add an lpr port, adding a port consists of keying in the appropriate ip, then it asks me to insert the driver disk. After this I print a test page and everything is fine until I reboot. Once I reboot I go into the printers folder and the printers are still there but they don't work because the ports I created are gone. The only thing left in there is the lpt1,lpt2,com1,com2,the HP plotter, and the location of the printer that is connected to lpt1 on one of the workstations.

06-10-2001, 10:26 PM	#5
zione1 Member (8 bit) Join Date: May 2001 Location: Cleveland Posts: 143	The other printers are actually high speed copiers that have proprietary network cards built into them. I don't use any administration software to setup them up or manage them cause I don't really have a need for it. Our network consists of 8 PC's, 5 printers, and a server. What I do to set them up is this, on the printers themselves I key in the appropriate ip and subnet mask, on the server I go to add printer, I then add an lpr port, adding a port consists of keying in the appropriate ip, then it asks me to insert the driver disk. After this I print a test page and everything is fine until I reboot. Once I reboot I go into the printers folder and the printers are still there but they don't work because the ports I created are gone. The only thing left in there is the lpt1,lpt2,com1,com2,the HP plotter, and the location of the printer that is connected to lpt1 on one of the workstations.