Leopard and hp Designjet 130nr

same issue here, same hardware. no luck getting this printer set up.

I hope you have found an answer. I just bought an iMac and am trying to set up the Designjet 130. It's listed in Preferences under Print & Fax and I can open the print queue which lists print jobs and reports that the printer is ready but it simply won't print. When I click RESUME on stopped jobs I eventually get an error message that flashes by too quickly to read. I am at a loss as to what to do next.

how to print to a networked HP Designjet130nr from a mac os x 10.5 leopard .


Network connection ( not USB)

1. system preferences-printers- add printer- More Printers- HP IP
Printing- Manual
-( when you click More Printers - it take a couple minutes to search )

2. Manual IP < enter the ip address of the printer>

3. Click "Connect" ...

then wait till it displays

Printer name NPIEB0xxx, Kind HP IP Printer 4.2.2

4. Click ADD

Now you can print to it .

Remember that it doesn't print very fast ,, so print jobs can take several
minutes

This did not work for me (10.5.5) or for another Mac on the same sub-net also running 10.5.5. After entering the correct IP address (the one that the built in web browser responds to) it searches but never connects.

However, Windoze (XP) under Parallels finds the printer and Inventor prints to it correctly.

Confused,
-Dale

I'm in the same boat. Now using a Macbook and I can't get it to talk to the printer. I have some level of success going through Firefox and can get it to run a head alignment, but nothing else. No go at all through Safari.

I was frustrated enough so that I called HP and eventually got told to select "default" in the printer setup (which uses Bonjour/Zeroconf.) Presto, the 130nr is there, the driver is there, and it prints as expected, all is well. I then had an odd discussion the the support person in which they "explained" that printing to the IP address only worked for "... printers with a built-in Postscript RIP ...." which I considered to be a most amazing statement.

So, now that the printer is installed and working, I went back and painlessly added a 130nr using the "More Printers -> HP IP Printing" method which also works now....

So, it seems like (for at least some of us) something is not quite working right: why would the printer have to be already found through Bonjour before IP printing can find it?

I have the same issue. Any computer on the same subnet as the printer can print to it just fine, but nothing else can print to it. It's pingable, and I can access the configuration page for the printer, but Trying to communicate with it as a printer is impossible and the correct driver is not available.

Any ideas?