Wireless or USB connect, new printer
Feb 11, 2019 18:35:30 #
kenArchi wrote:
Is there less of print quality wireless? Or is it better to connect USB cable?
Both of my printers are installed wireless and I have no problem printing to them from either the iMac or MacBook Pro.
However, my Brother printer no longer prints properly from my phone. This is not a wireless problem, although I’ve done everything I can think of to correct the “Air Print”, I still get prints from my phone that are tiny/miniature.
Feb 11, 2019 19:42:03 #
BebuLamar wrote:
I actually have problem with wireless printer. When I turn the printer off and back on sometimes it doesn't connect. So now I connect my printer via wired ethernet to the router. I can print wirlessly from a laptop but the laptop is communicating via wifi only to the router not the printer directly. Of course doing so I have to put the printer near the router but it's not a problem for me.
Another piece of software between computer and printer means an increased chance of software failure. Unless it is physically damaged in some way, a cable is less likely to cause trouble.
Feb 11, 2019 20:14:10 #
nadelewitz wrote:
A home router's DHCP server does not GIVE fixed/reserved/static IP addresses, period.
What it will do, after you configure it in the router setup, is set aside a range of IP addresses to reserve for printers (or computers). Then you give the printer an address from that range in PRINTER'S network configuration utility..
That's the only way to ensure a printer's IP address doesn't ever change
What it will do, after you configure it in the router setup, is set aside a range of IP addresses to reserve for printers (or computers). Then you give the printer an address from that range in PRINTER'S network configuration utility..
That's the only way to ensure a printer's IP address doesn't ever change
Depends on the firmware in the router but on a reasonable one you can assign a mac address to a predetermined ip address, you can set port forwarding too to a specific ip as well. I tend to put infrastructure at the top end of the address range and let other devices like laptops, tablets and phones go where the dhcp server assigns them, especially when they will be used elsewhere. You usually can do it on the client end, just avoiding the dhcp address range (or hoping the router will not assign another machine the same address.
I've come across very few routers that cannot put a particular mac address at a particular ip address. Maybe American isps insist you use their lousy home routers. You can still use your own on the inside so you have more control over your lan.
I did have a troublesome wireless access point that kept moving from its static address. The end solution was to keep it in the dhcp range and then it was left alone by the router (was a 4g router with very basic firmware).
Anyway my point was that a lot of can't connect to printer issues is because the printer is using a randomly assigned address, which can work great for months and then get shifted to a new address maybe it got powered down and something else took the address, happens a lot with home setups, and a few small office setups too (usually without IT staff).
Feb 17, 2019 15:01:23 #
I had mine set up for wireless, but it doesn't seem to work all the time, so now I just use the wired.
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