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I bought this cheap printer at the supermarket (shame on me! 80€ - 20€ coupon! Double shame :-P) and while I found it easy to configure Wi-Fi with WPS, I see it obviously never gets the same IP from my ISP-provided home router.

This makes me unable to print until I manually change the IP settings in the printer's port. Any ideas on how to configure static IP?

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can you set your home router to assign it the same IP? Most home routers can assign the same address based on MAC address. Or, if you can manually set it in the printer, limit the DHCP range in the router and set the static in the printer to be an address outside the DHCP range. – MaQleod Nov 13 '11 at 1:39
@MaQleod: impossible. The router is ISP-owned and controlled. I have no way to set it up :( – djechelon Nov 14 '11 at 8:49
So add a second router. Double-NAT is not ideal, but it will hand DHCP to your router, and you can control the DHCP config of your internal network. – MaQleod Nov 14 '11 at 16:03
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According to Epson's Network Guide for that printer, you can set the network up manually using the "EpsonNet Setup" software.

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Check out the Network manual on this page http://www.epson.co.uk/Store/Printers-and-All-in-Ones/Epson-Stylus-SX420W/Drivers-Support;jsessionid=D63283D2C64B7168B87B3BC986BC51C6.acc6-new

Once you unpack the zip file look in the EN folder it created and click the Index.htm, when your browset opens the manual go to "Set Up Using Control Panel and OS Functions, then click "Setup Printer LAN using the Control Panel" then refer to #6

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Looks like I can still enter the printer's host name instead of IP address :) :)

The printer gets detected by Windows network screen so I can grab its name haha!

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