From: Jim on
On 2010-05-07, Graham J <graham(a)invalid> wrote:
>>>
>>> Or, perhaps more sensibly, get a router and plug both Mac and printer
>>> straight into that. Life'll be a lot simpler...
>>
>> That would work as well, yes. I get a bit twitchy about printers being on
>> DHCP though.
>
> Decent routers allow you to bind a AMC address to an IP address, so the IP
> address of the printer can effectively be static.

I know. I also know that with some of them it doesn't seem to work terribly
well. We had some D-Link ADSL routers that were supposed to do that - they
didn't.

But still, good point.

Jim
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From: Michael H. Phillips on
On Fri, 7 May 2010 11:34:33 +0100, Jim wrote:

> Reboot both, see if that helps. Grasping at straws a wee bit here.

Don't know how, don't know why, but today it's working.

One last question...

It works using LPD or HP Jetdirect but not IPP. What's the difference between
LPD and HP Jetdirect?

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