Network printer

Clarifications

You have to load the printer driver for that printer on each computer, make sure the printer is connected to your network with a cat5 cable and assign an ip address to that printer. Assuming you are using windows you will then need to configure the TCP/IP port on each computer. What OS are you using?

Stand alone install

Setup printer with power and an ethernet cable to the network switch.

You can either setup the printer with a static IP address or use DHCP and assign one. But either way your want the printer to have an IP address that does not change.

Once complete insert the install CD from HP on each client and walk through the process of installing the printer as a network connected printer. It will ask you for the IP address of the print which you must setup first.

Network Server install

If you have a "server" or a PC that acts as storage you can connect the printer to that PC and share the printer out to your network.

Install the printer using the USB interface to the PC in question, using the HP install CD. During the install process it will ask you if you want to share the printer, which you will answer yes.

You will then be able to browse to that local PC and install the printer by connecting to it

I am guessing you do not have a Server on the network to share the printer from!

Plug the printer into an active/working network port. If your network has a dhcp server. (any consumer grade router usually does)just turn the printer on and wait a few minutes. The printer should aquire an IP address that matches the range for your network.

Print a configuration page. You should find the IP adress listed if everything worked ok.

Configuration page
The Configuration page lists current settings and properties of the printer. It also contains a status log
report. You can print a Configuration page from the following locations:
● Printer control panel. Press the Go button for five seconds when the printer Ready light is on and
no other jobs are printing.

Install the HP network printer wizard on the workstatiosn and run it. It should find the printer and guide you through the setup. It will download drivers.

http://h20338.www2.hp.com/hpsub/cache/344320-0-0-225-121.html?jumpid=reg_R1002_USEN

Highlights:
Provides support for Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 64-bit, Windows XP, Windows XP 64-bit, Windows Vista, and Windows Vista 64-bit
Provides discovery and installation on IPv6 networks (in addition to IPv4)
Automatically downloads the latest driver for your printer from the HP website
Available languages include Czech, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, and Traditional Chinese

Requirements:
Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 64-bit, Windows XP, Windows XP 64-bit, Windows Vista, and Windows Vista 64-bit
TCP/IP (v4 or v6) network protocol

Its more work than most of us here would go through, but then we know more about what is required and how to set things up manually.