how do i change a printer's ip address?

Thanks Greg, yes I used the HP Laserjet Utility by booting the computer into Classic and starting that program. It couldn't see the printer, so I was unable to affect it.

This is all being attempted over a d-link DI-524 wireless router.

I am connecting from my powerbook to the wireless router via airport. The router is connected to my cable modem via the WAN socket, and from one of its LAN ethernet sockets I have an ethernet cable connected to the printer.

A couple of developments: the d-link has found the printer on the network somehow. I can now see its MAC address and an assigned IP from dhcp within the d-link dhcp configuration page.

However, IP printing to that address fails with an the error "the process 'hppostprocessing' terminated unexpectedly on signal 5".

The printer's new IP address is also now visible to another ethernet connected Mac on my home network, however IP printing from there also hangs with the same error.

I'll keep thinking... is it possible that the d-link DI 524 won't allow IP printing?

P.

thanks greg

between our posts i found a way to reset the printer to its factory defaults, so its ip address is now 0.0.0.0

when i go into terminal and enter 'telnet 0.0.0.0' the response is that the connection has been refused.

0.0.0.0 is also refused when i try to add a printer with that address in ip printing setup.

i suppose i will have to try the os9 driver...

thanks for your help

p.

thanks -- however my problem is not how to connect to a printer via ip (which i am familiar with) but rather how do i physically change the ip address of my printer, and then connect to it?

PB12 Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Thanks again, but this doesn't address my question. I'll try and be clearer...

I understand that my router can assign ip addresses and where to find them.

My problem is that I need to physically change the machine name and the ip address of the printer, which is stored in the printers memory. This information was created when the printer was set up on the network to which it belonged before I aqcuired the printer. I can read this information by getting a printed configuration report from my printer.

Now, at present I cannot see the printer over my network -- the router will not deliver an ip address to the printer. I am beginning to understand that this may be because appletalk is not functional over my wireless router. I can also not print using ip to its current [old network] ip. When I try to do this, the printer directs the job over the internet to its old network address range, and printing fails... of course the printer is no longer on the old network, it is beside me here!

So, the alternative I wish to try to reach my printer is by direct ip printing, obviously to a new, local ip address. In order to try this I need to establish a recognizable ip address for the printer, as a stand alone machine. I am presuming at this stage that if I can assign an address within the 192.168.x.x range of the router, and if the router then recognises the printer on the network, I may then be able to use ip printing to reach the printer as a local machine.

My question is, does anyone know of a way to connect with the internal memory of the printer via ethernet in order to assign the printer a new ip address?

Sorry for any confusion, and thanks for the advice so far.

p.

hi greg,

i tried the Classic installer idea you suggested above, however in Classic the printer is still not visisble on the network. I had the hp software working fine however I can't see the machine in order to configure it.

there should be a way to do this... isn't the MAC address static for the machine... so I should be able to network to it somehow? Maybe I should go back to my old non-wireless setup and try to see the printer that way?

p.

Something else I just noticed...

As I mentioned above, the router has finally seen the printer's MAC address and assigned an IP via DHCP.

In the Printer Setup Utility 'Printer List' I have created a new IP printer to that IP address.

The far left column of the printer list window is column "Host", and for some reason the Host of the printer is "Peter-Minter's Computer.local"

This seems odd as in the past, when using other printers in other situations, the host field has always been empty.

Perhaps there is a problem with the false assignation of the 'Host' of the printer?

p.

i can ping the printer

I am honing in on the following error, which is produced whenever I now try to IP print to the printer via my wireless d-link DI524:

"the process 'hppostprocessing' terminated unexpectedly on signal 5".

keep in mind that the host for the printer IP is showing as 'Peter-Minters-Computer.local'

Any ideas folks?

p.

PB12 Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Thanks Bruce — I'll investigate that link.

I would love to connect with my printer in any way possible, including Appletalk!

The problem is that I can't see my printer or print to it at all, and in trying to think through possible reasons for this I thought that perhaps Appletalk could not work on the wireless connection to my d-link DI-524... thus my other question regarding 'print server' routers to which you also kindly responded.

To summarize the problem as it is now:

I CANNOT see my printer
via Printer Setup Utility
via IP Printing [attempts at IP Printing return error "the process 'hppostprocessing' terminated unexpectedly on signal 5".]

I CAN see my printer via:
d-link router configuration: the router sees the MAC address and assigns IP via DHCP

Appletalk is on.
Router firmware is latest.
HP drivers are latest.
I have tried numerous restarts and resetting of all machines, to no avail.

I look forward to further discussion to try and work this one out!

p.

PB12 Mac OS X (10.4.6)

OK Folks!

I've worked it out, after reading the following forum post:

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=729511&#729511

I first reassigned the IP address of the printer, using the d-link DI 524 static IP address configuration window in DHCP.

I then went to Printer Setup Utility and activated the new IP address of the printer under 'HP Jet Direct Socket'.

Bingo! The whole network, including my wireless connection can now see the printer in this mode with this new IP address.

Solved it myself, but thanks for all the help guys.

P.