Setting up IP Printer on DHCP

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Setting up IP Printer on DHCP

I have a Brother MFC-9700 that I use in my home network. I use a wired Linksys router. My network is set up to use DHCP to dynamically assign IP addresses to the various clients. I can get the IP address of my printer and set it up using the Print Utility as an IP Printer, but when the IP address changes--I have to go through the whole process again.

Can I give my printer a static IP address and everything else dynamic? I've tried typing in an address like 10.0.1.99 using the menus on the printer, but then my computer cannot find it. Even if it could, when I restart my printer, the router assigns a new address anyway.

Dual 1.42 GHz PPC G4, 1.42GHz Mac Mini, Mac OS X (10.4.4)

Posted on Feb 15, 2006 6:48 AM

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Answer 1

Feb 16, 2006 3:33 AM in response to skip314

Your should, somewhere in the router control panel setup a static ip address, just make sure the address is outside the dhcp range. If the range for example is 192.168.1.1 thru 192.168.1.50, then make the static ip 192.168.1.51 and the subnet 255.255.255.0. Use your printer setup utility to use that ip address and hopefully the problem will be solved.

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skip314 Author

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Feb 16, 2006 6:24 AM in response to Colin Sutcliffe

That seems to have worked. I have to re-input the static IP address into the printer every time I recycle the power, but that doesn't happen very often. It's much better than going through the whole printer-setup process every day.

Thanks.

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