TCP/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

"BrianMultiLanguage" wrote in
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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/3000-2088-10...ml?tag=lst-0-1).
--
Mike Maltby MS-MVP



BrianMultiLanguage wrote:

How do you add a tcp/ip port for printing to a WIN98 and WinMe
machine? Thanks

BrianMultiLanguage wrote:
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

Rick T wrote:

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.
--
Mike Maltby MS-MVP

Mike M wrote:
Rick T wrote:

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.

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

Rick T wrote:

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.
--
Mike Maltby MS-MVP

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

Mike M wrote:
Rick T wrote:

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.

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. :-)
--
Mike Maltby MS-MVP



Rick T wrote:

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.

Mike M wrote:
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
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.

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