I have an Epson Stylus Photo 1270 with an attached Axis 1440 print server (which gives it an ethernet port, and supports Appletalk and, supposedly, TCP/IP printing).Just bought a Netgear wireless router, which unfortunately doesn't support Appletalk. At least it doesn't wirelessly - no problem printing via a wired machine. So I'm trying to set up to print via TCP/IP, and I'm not quite sure how to go about it. In my Printer Setup Utility I have both 'IP Printing' and 'Epson TCP/IP' as options. Under 'IP Printing' I can either do LPD/LPR or Internet Protocol Printing.
I tried all these options, entering the IP number shown on the info sheet printed when I press the 'test' button on the Axis server. In all cases when I try to print the printer can't be found. The subnet mask for the printer is same as that of the router. The printer does say its 'default router' is 192.168.123.254, while the wireless router is 192.168.0.1 - I wonder if that could be the problem.
I don't recall exactly how to change the setting in the printer - I think it might require an OS 9 app, though it might be possible via Unix. Any suggestions on what I should look at/try? Sorry, not all print servers are made equal. The built-in Epson ones are the only ones that the Epson-provided drivers recognize. If you were asking about Gimp-Print, it (the set of drivers) was written to use cups - the print control/spool system Apple has chosen to use in OS X.
The advantage of that is that the drivers work with ALL the cups comm modes (called backends in cups terminology). So, the Epson-provided drivers bypass (part of) cups and provide only the comm modes that Epson has originally made the printer for.
I hope that explains it. I'm having trouble getting Gimp-Print (or anything) to work with my Epson 1270/Axis 1440 combo.
I printed the test page listing the ethernet address of the printer, and TCP/IP is enabled, but for one, I'm unable to ping the printer. Should I be able to, or will a printer not respond to a ping?
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No settings in Gimp-Print seem to work. Software client for mac. I select IP Printing in Printer Utility, select Internet Printing Protocol in Printer Type (though I've also tried LPD/LPR), set the ip number correctly and tried 'AXIS3F8793' and 'lpr' as printer queue names and it never connects to the printer. I can print fine wired, using Appletalk and Epson's own drivers.
OK - solved one big problem. The Axis was set to use a different router address than my wifi router.
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Got the Epson all set now and it's returning pings. But I still can't get my Gimp-Print settings worked out. First field: IP Printing Second field: do I select 'Internet Printing Protocol' or 'LPD/LPR'? When I select the first, I get 'busy' errors when printing. When I select the second, the print queue (on the Mac) just stops every time I try to print Third field: 192.168.0.49 Fourth field: I've tried 'AXIS3F8793', 'AXIS3F8793LPT1', 'lp' and leaving it blank Help!
I have a Lexmark Optra R series laser printer which according to Lexmark is supported under MacOS. The problem is W2K Server won't share my printer on AppleTalk even though I have print services for MacOS installed. So what am I missing here? File sharing works and I can access shared files from the Macs but I can't access the printer and when I try to create an appleshare port for the printer, W2KSvr says there are no appletalk devices available. So the question is, how do I set this up so that I can print from the Macs to the Lexmark which is currently residing on the W2K Server? I'm giving it a point value of 75 because that's all I have.
If I had 250, that's what it would be. All suggestions and comments are welcome.
I thought it was using an ethernet Marknet adapter.sorry. In the Mac world, Appletalk uses zones. When you added Print Services for Mac did you have the zone option? It must match anything set on the Mac PC. That being said, are you using MS Authentication on the MAC? I think you need to have that in order to see the services on the network being advertised by the server. Also, when you added the port, something rings a bell with the port name needing to be PORT1 - I could be wrong though.
I'm still thinking. AppleTalk and it's 'zones' are installed and the MacOS 8.1 Client is able to see the file shares I have setup in the zone. In fact, I have a screenshot showing my Mac configuration posted at - perhaps this might help to diagnose the problem. Because it is a Quardra (which is a 68K Mac) the highest version of MacOS I can use on it is 8.1 and that limits things in some ways because many MacOS updates I could use either need newer MacOS or PPC or both. Perhaps I should have worded my question better too. See, In the CHOOSER I can access fileshares but not the printer. When the Mac boots up, it asks from my USERNAME and PASSWORD to gain access into the Microsoft UAM Volumes, one of which you will see in the background of the picture.
Ok - I got it all working now. The problem was that the native AppleShare version in MacOS 8.1 is v3.7 and MSUAM doesn't like 3.7 so I got the AppleShare 3.8.6 update from Apple and presto - it's like a miracle or something! Anyway, I printed off a test page and sure enough, it's good to go.
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The documentation from Microsoft doesn't explain why it works with AppleShare 3.6 and 3.8.x but not 3.7 except only to say 3.7 is not compatible. Bastards are just trying to make my life miserable.:) Anyways, thanks for your help - I really appreciated it. Got pointed me in the right direction and my problem is now solved.:).