DHCP

You will typically give a printer its own static IP because you don't want its IP to change. Makes it easier to find the printer on the network if it's not a moving target.
First, go into the configuration of your DHCP server and either determine a group of addresses in your subnet that are not in the DHCP address pool, or EXCLUDE a small range of IP's for your network printers and other fixed IP devices.
Example:
If your DHCP pool consists of the range 192.168.1.51 - 192.168.1.251, netmask255.255.255.0, then the range of IP's available to be issued as static IP's is all of those in the subnet below 192.168.1.51.
If you're pooling nearly the whole range, like 192.168.1.2 - 192.168.1.254, then you will need to EXCLUDE from this pool, any IP that you want to statically assign to another device like a network printer, so if you EXCLUDE 192.168.1.100-192.168.1.110 for example, then you can assign any of the IP's in that exclude range as static IP's for your printers, etc.
Then the next step of course, is to configure the printer and assign it the ststic IP that you determined from the step above.
--Charlie

Nrmally you can just exclude a specific IP from the pool on the DHCP server.

The printer setup is usually done through some sort of network setup on the printer panel. Pretty annoying to do actually.

Honestly though, if you're not sure how to resrve an IP and find configuring an IP difficult on the printer, your best option is to use someting like jet-direct to connect using multicast to the MAC address of the Network card on the printer.

Mark

Some DHCP servers use the reverse way to do the same thing, namely "reserve" an ip address, within the scope assigned. Some allow reservation by ip name or MAC address, in which case, use the MAC numbers as they are usually 'hard-coded' into the network device ...

Hope this helps too ...

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