![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
The Wifi Printer Came in....
A.) Installing the WiFi printer was easy but not. First I had to figure out how to input the password for the network into the machine which you have to do via a USB cable. At first the software wasn't working however. It only started working once I downloaded the drivers off the internet rather than use the ones on the CD to install on my Mac.
Once I got that done I thought I had it all setup. I was scanning image all afternoon. But then I noticed that leaving the printer idle for a while it goes to "sleep". I had also logged out and logged back into Leopard. So I was going to scan another image and it was failing to transfer the list of applications it can scan to over the network. I spent a long time trying to figure this out but I figured out that there is a piece of software that needs to be running in the background that it wasn't able to find running for some reason.
So I logged into my Admin account and reinstalled the drivers there and it seems to work now. One other thing I noticed about that printer's driver is on the Mac it needs to be able to find the IP address that it was setup with and you can't change that without reinstalling the software. So I went ahead and assigned the printer a static IP address. This is probably what is causing some people to complain that after a while they have to reinstall the drivers because once the IP lease is up or something then the printer would get a new IP address causing them to have to reinstall the software.
The scanner seems to be able to scan images a lot better than my older scanner could. Especially polaroid photos which my family has quite a few. The resulting images look much more like photos than what came out of the old scanner.
When it was time to install the drivers and get it setup with my parents wireless PC upstairs after I installed their new hard drive I noticed that that computer for some reason couldn't see the printer. I reinstalled the drivers a few times before I thought to poke around in the router's settings. I found that the setting I had set before "AP isolation" was causing it. That setting prevents one wireless PC\device on a wifi network from seeing another one. Obviously this isn't desirable in this situation.
I'm fresh out of paper though. That's the thing we will need to get next.
A.) Installing the WiFi printer was easy but not. First I had to figure out how to input the password for the network into the machine which you have to do via a USB cable. At first the software wasn't working however. It only started working once I downloaded the drivers off the internet rather than use the ones on the CD to install on my Mac.
Once I got that done I thought I had it all setup. I was scanning image all afternoon. But then I noticed that leaving the printer idle for a while it goes to "sleep". I had also logged out and logged back into Leopard. So I was going to scan another image and it was failing to transfer the list of applications it can scan to over the network. I spent a long time trying to figure this out but I figured out that there is a piece of software that needs to be running in the background that it wasn't able to find running for some reason.
So I logged into my Admin account and reinstalled the drivers there and it seems to work now. One other thing I noticed about that printer's driver is on the Mac it needs to be able to find the IP address that it was setup with and you can't change that without reinstalling the software. So I went ahead and assigned the printer a static IP address. This is probably what is causing some people to complain that after a while they have to reinstall the drivers because once the IP lease is up or something then the printer would get a new IP address causing them to have to reinstall the software.
The scanner seems to be able to scan images a lot better than my older scanner could. Especially polaroid photos which my family has quite a few. The resulting images look much more like photos than what came out of the old scanner.
When it was time to install the drivers and get it setup with my parents wireless PC upstairs after I installed their new hard drive I noticed that that computer for some reason couldn't see the printer. I reinstalled the drivers a few times before I thought to poke around in the router's settings. I found that the setting I had set before "AP isolation" was causing it. That setting prevents one wireless PC\device on a wifi network from seeing another one. Obviously this isn't desirable in this situation.
I'm fresh out of paper though. That's the thing we will need to get next.
