How to find IP address of connected device? (Ricoh Laser AP2600 printer)
I've connected my MacBook Pro to a working Ricoh Laser AP2600 printer via Ethernet cable.
After installing the appropriate drivers and settings and still being unable to print, at someone's suggestion I tried "pinging" the printer to see if the computer "sees" it, and found the answer was "No." The Network Utility produced this result:
"PING 011.022.033.044 (9.18.27.36): 56 data bytes
Request timeout for icmp_seq 0
Request timeout for icmp_seq 1
Request timeout for icmp_seq 2
011.022.033.044 ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100.0% packet loss"
In order to set up the printer in Snow Leopard's "Print & Fax" System Preferences pane, I had to find and then manually enter the Ricoh's IP address.
The Ricoh Laser AP2600 has a pretty primitive interface display, but I had been able to navigate through its menus like so: Menu/Host Interface/Network Setup/IP Address to find what is listed as the printer's "IP Address": 011.022.033.044 . That is what I entered when I set up the printer on the MacBook Pro.
However, considering that Ping was unsuccessful at contacting the printer at that address, and considering that 011.022.033.044 seems more like some kind of default setting that an actual IP address, I have the feeling that this is not the printer's IP address after all.
But then, how can I find it? No matter where I scroll around in the Ricoh's small display, I can find no other mention of what its IP address may be aside from 011.022.033.044. A Web search reveals just about nothing on this topic, as Ricoh Laser AP 2600s are at least 20 years old and very little info is available about them on the Web.
Is there some way for me to uncover the Ricoh's IP address using some tool on my computer while connected to the printer? Could it conceivably be stamped in some hidden place on the case? Is it findable on the Web? Or...? (And what does "(9.18.27.36)" refer to it the Ping results?) Otherwise, without knowing the IP address, there seems to be no way to connect to it with 10.6.3's setup.
(Note: I still have an old PowerBook running 10.4.11, and with that I can connect to and print with the Ricoh problem-free (using the same cable)! The reason being that I did not need to know the IP address, but connected to it via "AppleTalk," which seems to be no longer an option in 10.6.3 for connecting to printers.)
Any help would be much appreciated.
After installing the appropriate drivers and settings and still being unable to print, at someone's suggestion I tried "pinging" the printer to see if the computer "sees" it, and found the answer was "No." The Network Utility produced this result:
"PING 011.022.033.044 (9.18.27.36): 56 data bytes
Request timeout for icmp_seq 0
Request timeout for icmp_seq 1
Request timeout for icmp_seq 2
011.022.033.044 ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100.0% packet loss"
In order to set up the printer in Snow Leopard's "Print & Fax" System Preferences pane, I had to find and then manually enter the Ricoh's IP address.
The Ricoh Laser AP2600 has a pretty primitive interface display, but I had been able to navigate through its menus like so: Menu/Host Interface/Network Setup/IP Address to find what is listed as the printer's "IP Address": 011.022.033.044 . That is what I entered when I set up the printer on the MacBook Pro.
However, considering that Ping was unsuccessful at contacting the printer at that address, and considering that 011.022.033.044 seems more like some kind of default setting that an actual IP address, I have the feeling that this is not the printer's IP address after all.
But then, how can I find it? No matter where I scroll around in the Ricoh's small display, I can find no other mention of what its IP address may be aside from 011.022.033.044. A Web search reveals just about nothing on this topic, as Ricoh Laser AP 2600s are at least 20 years old and very little info is available about them on the Web.
Is there some way for me to uncover the Ricoh's IP address using some tool on my computer while connected to the printer? Could it conceivably be stamped in some hidden place on the case? Is it findable on the Web? Or...? (And what does "(9.18.27.36)" refer to it the Ping results?) Otherwise, without knowing the IP address, there seems to be no way to connect to it with 10.6.3's setup.
(Note: I still have an old PowerBook running 10.4.11, and with that I can connect to and print with the Ricoh problem-free (using the same cable)! The reason being that I did not need to know the IP address, but connected to it via "AppleTalk," which seems to be no longer an option in 10.6.3 for connecting to printers.)
Any help would be much appreciated.
15" MacBookPro, Mac OS X (10.6.3)
