Here`s the setup:
Office has a router (192.168.1.1), with LAN connections to PC(192.168.1.3) and 2 network printers (192.168.1.6 and 7). The lappy also connects in wirelessly (192.168.1.2)
Everything has been fine for ages - then a power cut seems to have started a problem with access to the HP Laserjet 2420DN (.6 address)
If mrs. asks it to print from the PC, it does, perfectly. The lappy used to, but now doesn`t - sort of!
The laser is the default printer. When I`ve written an invoice out, I put a sheet of pre-headed paper in, and voila! However, at the moment, when I click "print", the laser icon in the printers folder takes the file, shows as a document queued, then goes again, as if it has printed. At the same time, a file called "192.168.1.5,192.168.1.2" is created in the "current invoices" directory.
So yesterday, after much wringing of hands and gnashing of teeth, I deleted the printer, and re-installed on the lappy. Asked it to print an invoice - out it came. Whoopee - I`ve "mended it". er....NO. Ten mins later, when I ask it to print another invoice, it writes this file again, instead of printing.
WTF is going on????ray rayrayrayray
note: I can open an explorer window, type in the net. address of the printer, and access the system & control settings for the printer - similarly I can "ping" it happily - <1ms confused I am.
Office has a router (192.168.1.1), with LAN connections to PC(192.168.1.3) and 2 network printers (192.168.1.6 and 7). The lappy also connects in wirelessly (192.168.1.2)
Everything has been fine for ages - then a power cut seems to have started a problem with access to the HP Laserjet 2420DN (.6 address)
If mrs. asks it to print from the PC, it does, perfectly. The lappy used to, but now doesn`t - sort of!
The laser is the default printer. When I`ve written an invoice out, I put a sheet of pre-headed paper in, and voila! However, at the moment, when I click "print", the laser icon in the printers folder takes the file, shows as a document queued, then goes again, as if it has printed. At the same time, a file called "192.168.1.5,192.168.1.2" is created in the "current invoices" directory.
So yesterday, after much wringing of hands and gnashing of teeth, I deleted the printer, and re-installed on the lappy. Asked it to print an invoice - out it came. Whoopee - I`ve "mended it". er....NO. Ten mins later, when I ask it to print another invoice, it writes this file again, instead of printing.
WTF is going on????
ray rayrayrayraynote: I can open an explorer window, type in the net. address of the printer, and access the system & control settings for the printer - similarly I can "ping" it happily - <1ms
confused I am.
