Thursday, 17 March 2011

MacBook and Network inkjet HP C5180

Interesting one the other day, a Macbook running 10.5.8 that would not 'see' a HP C5180 inkjet on the Airport wireless network. Worked fine over USB, but the installation software would not see the printer over the wireless network at all.

I connected it in by Ethernet, when of course it was seen, so I thought that it would disappear again as soon as I disconnected Ethernet. Well curiously it worked perfectly over wireless after that, being found as normal by all the software.

24 March update on this: it disappeared again off Bonjour, never figured out why; but I set up permanently by assigning it a manual IP address and then using the IP option in Add Printer to add its IP address.

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