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TCP/IP printer is offline after reboot.

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by carl

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On Win95, I have a HPLJ2100, using Jet Admin I set it up as an IP printer, created the port, installed the driver etc, and it work fine.
But each time I reboot, the printer is greyed out, and becomes unavailable to the client. Others on the network can still print to it, and I can ping the printer even though I cannot print to it. The only way arounf this is to reinstall it.

It is definately a client problem. Does anyone have any ideas about where to start to look?

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by tbradley

This would be too easy if true, but have you right clicked on the printer icon and see if it is set offline? That's the line right below set as default.

by carl

I have tried all the simple things I can think of, including unchecking work offline. It didn't allow me to do this.

Thanks Anyway.

Carl.

by ibrahim

It look like you are having printer drivers problem. If you are using a driver downloaded from the internet, try to re-download the driver again but if the drivers are from the manufacturer try to re-install the driver but this time go to the network neighbourhood and try to locate for the printer. Then right click on the printer and select install and follow the instruction accordingly. Hope it will help.

by carl

The driver is the most up-to-date version, and is successfully working on other machines.

by carl

For those who were kind enough to help me out, thanks for your help. I have just solved the problem. Here is what I did.

Initially I set the printer up using the HP JetDirect add printer wizard. This would allow the printer to work fine until themachine was rebooted.

To solve the problem, I deleted all the ports relating to the printer from within the printer properties. I then added a new port using the add port button from within the printer properties, specified the IP address of the printer, and applied the changes.

This has now solved the problem, as the printer is available to the client now all of the time.

I hope this help if anyone else stubles across this.

Regards
Carl Gray.

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