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Windows Forum / Windows Me / Networking / March 2005TCP/IP port for printing
How do you add a tcp/ip port for printing to a WIN98 and WinMe machine? Thanks Use the software that came with the print server. There is none built-in to 98/Me. Carey > How do you add a tcp/ip port for printing to a WIN98 and WinMe machine? > Thanks Regrettably Win Me contains no built-in networking printing client. If the printer is an HP printer then look on the HP site where you may find the necessary client (I run an HP4550 colour LaserJet off a JetDirect box on my LAN). Otherwise you will need to look on www.download.com or Google for a suitable client such as perhaps the Intelliscribe LPR Print Client (http://download.com.com/3000-2088-10206823.html?tag=lst-0-1).  SignatureMike Maltby MS-MVP mike.maltby@gmail.com > How do you add a tcp/ip port for printing to a WIN98 and WinMe > machine? Thanks > How do you add a tcp/ip port for printing to a WIN98 and WinMe machine? > Thanks Enable Printer Sharing (requires Microsoft Networking to be enabled). (tcp/ip would only be strictly necessary if you want to access the printer from the Internet) Rick > Enable Printer Sharing (requires Microsoft Networking to be enabled). > (tcp/ip would only be strictly necessary if you want to access the > printer from the Internet) Not at all. TCP/IP printing is where the printer is attached directly to the LAN rather than to a PC. Merits of such an arrangement include access to the printer not replying on a specific PC to be powered on and available. TCP/IP printing does not have to mean printing from the Internet. Much in the same way as using a router with a modem attached for accessing the internet rather than using ICS and having to rely on the PC configured as the ICS host to be switched on and connected. SignatureMike Maltby MS-MVP mike.maltby@gmail.com >> Enable Printer Sharing (requires Microsoft Networking to be enabled). >> (tcp/ip would only be strictly necessary if you want to access the [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > for accessing the internet rather than using ICS and having to rely on > the PC configured as the ICS host to be switched on and connected. Ahh, I actually have one of those (and I should really get it fixed and plug it in too), I just parsed the OP's post differently. Rick > Ahh, I actually have one of those (and I should really get it fixed > and plug it in too), I just parsed the OP's post differently. As do I. My main printer in an HP ColorLaserJet 4550 which for some time I had connected to my LAN using an external HP JetDirect box (thanks eBay, cost me around US$15) as I was too mean to buy a 4550n with built in TCP print server (at the time over US$300 more than the basic model 4550). This meant I had a network cable between the router and the JetDirect box and then a parallel cable from the JetDirect box to the printer. Just before Christmas I was at long last able to buy, again on eBay, an HP 610n printer server that plugs in to the back of the printer so I no longer need the external box and can plug the printer directly into my router. My Win Me system has no problem in printing to the printer as HP provide the necessary software to allow printing to a TCP/IP address. SignatureMike Maltby MS-MVP mike.maltby@gmail.com Laserjet something or other here with a built in NIC... result of a succesful dumpster dive(more or less). The whatsis has somebody's fingerprints on it and probably needs replacing, but it worked fine last time I plugged it into the router (with the HP software on my computer), main feeder's busted/jammed though. I'm a bit slow to repair it because frankly it's noisy even in standby and takes awhile to boot up. I still have a working Canon BJ5 and a Xerox C11. I'm not even slightly tempted by modern inkjets where the print cartridge costs as much as the machine but the words "laser" and "wide carriage" in the same sentence causes me to salivate uncontrollably. Rick >> Ahh, I actually have one of those (and I should really get it fixed >> and plug it in too), I just parsed the OP's post differently. [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > My Win Me system has no problem in printing to the printer as HP provide > the necessary software to allow printing to a TCP/IP address. Any large format printer would probably make me/us drool but I've no idea where I'd put it. My elder daughter works in the theatre and seems always to be having to mock up broadsheet newspapers for use as props so even a European A3 would be sometimes useful against the standard A4. However she's found a small print shop where she can send photoshop images who can print them at up to broadsheet size on newsprint and send back by return post. They'll even do single copies and the price is pretty reasonable - especially so as there appears to be no competition. As for dumpster diving I'm not likely to find much of use round here so have to make do with trawling eBay and hoping to find something the big boys have missed. :-) SignatureMike Maltby MS-MVP mike.maltby@gmail.com > Laserjet something or other here with a built in NIC... result of a > succesful dumpster dive(more or less). The whatsis has somebody's [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > much as the machine but the words "laser" and "wide carriage" in the > same sentence causes me to salivate uncontrollably. > Any large format printer would probably make me/us drool but I've no > idea where I'd put it. Xerox C15 is the same as my C11 except wider (I'm mostly interested in 11x17" (A2?) for booklets). Never ceases to amaze me that I can pass through a junkshop without purchasing a plotter "just because", though. > My elder daughter works in the theatre and seems > always to be having to mock up broadsheet newspapers for use as props so [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > back by return post. They'll even do single copies and the price is > pretty reasonable - especially so as there appears to be no competition. On occasion I write up sheet music and like to do a little higher quality than corner-stapled A4 ... good for resumes with embedded cover-letter too I imagine... if they came up with even an el-cheapo model which could do A4 sideways I think there'd be a market in the small/personal business sector. > As for dumpster diving I'm not likely to find much of use round here so > have to make do with trawling eBay and hoping to find something the big > boys have missed. :-) There's 2-3 junk/2nds stores 'round here which I occasionally trawl for additions to my "Home for Orphaned Technology" whenever the piggybank overflows; but the LJ was a (freebie) surplused piece from a business that had upgraded to IVs. Rick I recently had the same problem. TCP/IP printing is standard not included in win98 and I had to find a driver like this one : http://printing.ucr.edu/index.php?content=downloads/win98_docucolor/win98_docuco lor.html The first paragraphs explain to download the LPR software that adds a a remote LPR port on your computer. After installing you need to install the driver for the printer and use that port. René > How do you add a tcp/ip port for printing to a WIN98 and WinMe machine? > Thanks |
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