Questions tagged [network-printer]
A printer installed and available over a network, typically to allow use by multiple users.
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Brother HL-L2325DW Printer on Arch Linux Will Not Print, Despite Showing That the Job Has Completed
As the title says, I cannot get my printer (A Brother HL-L2325DW) to print. It beeps at me a few times once it receives my print job, and CUPS states that the print job is complete, but beyond the few ...
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Emulate a network printer as a USB printer?
I have a very niche problem where I need to set up a network printer for use with an application which only accepts USB printer connections. Is there any way to fool this application that our network ...
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HP Designjet 130, blank front panel, yellow led flashes, no communication with HP System Maintenance Tool
I replaced the electronics module in my HP Designjet 130 (because the existing one was broken).
I took the electronics module from another working printer I had (HP Designjet 130nr).
The electronics ...
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Zebra Printer - Missing Always use Driver Settings
We have multiple zebra label printers on a server for printing Crystal Reports. We have some printers that are using a larger 4 x 6 label vs the normal 4 x 3.
On the older printers (GK420D) I was able ...
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HP Printer Envy 5660 Prints Discoloration
asking for some help to troubleshoot my printer before I go ahead and buy a new one. Is there anything I'm failing to consider here?
Situation:
When I print black/white pages of text it is discolored....
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Epson printer connects to the network that is not listed
I have an Epson L3250 printer. I set the printer connect to network 192.168.1.0 for wireless printing.
Then I set static DHCP for IP address. After few days, why does that printer connect to network ...
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Unexpected printing issues with Laserjet Enterprise m607; upside down and out of margin printing
We have a printer (Laserjet Enterprise m607) that has been giving us some weird problems the last few days.
The printer usually prints checks and the two people that print them started having problems ...
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Kyocera m5521cdn scanner is busy
I have been using Kyocera Print Center to scan over LAN, and it has worked perfectly in the past. However, recently, I encounter an error message that says, "a problem occurred during scanning.&...
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Network Printing on Win 10 22H2 takes forever
I have an up to date Win 10 22H2, I try to print a document on a network installed printer, each time the print command is sent, it takes at least a minute to be added to print queue, after the job is ...
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Unable to connect "Canon PIXMA MG3650S" to the local WiFi-network. DIRECT-WLAN of the printer is not found in the list of the "Canon PRINT"-app
I have bought the printer "Canon Pixma MG3650S" from Aldi Online Shop. I set up the printer, connected it to electricity, and turned it on. I downloaded the "Canon PRINT"-App from ...
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Remote printing with user authentication [closed]
I saw in one company how an employee sent documents to print from her computer, then went to a printer in another room, swiped an ID card (probably RFID) on it and it immediately printed the documents....
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I only see one of two printers shared by Windows 10 computer
I have a Windows 10 computer ("Computer A") with two USB printers ("Printer 1" and "Printer 2") attached to it. The printers are different models with different names, ...
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Missing Print Job History in Lexmark Printers [closed]
We recently purchased different Lexmark printer models to replace our previous aging printers in our network.
The models are including color laser printer C4300 Series and black and white XM3200 ...
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Last Windows Updates Stopped Ability to Print to My Wireless Printer
Since installing the last 3 Windows updates: KB5028166, KB5028853 and Servicing Stack 10.0.19041.3205, my computer can no longer access the wireless printer used by the household. I am running Windows ...
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what's the syntax to represent a printer in fqdn style?
I am trying to send a print command to a printer via telnet.
Normally I would send it to telnet://printer125:9100
but I am not able to access the printer directly. server admin indicated that I need ...
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1 Print Job to Multiple Receipt Printers
I have 4 Bluetooth printers. I can get them all to print the same orders using Print Distributor - simple and elegant solution.
The problem is that the print jobs come from a single tablet. The ...
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Printing Directly to my Deskjet 2752e Printer network using TCP Connection
I'm encountering difficulties when attempting to print simple text using PCL in Java with my Deskjet 2752e printer. The printer supports HP PCL 3 GUI, HP PCLm (HP Apps/UPD), and URF (AirPrint)1. ...
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Samsung C460W network printer drops out of network after some time
I have a Samsung C460W Wi-Fi network printer. Once set up, the printer works perfectly, or at least satisfying for me. Connected to the Wi-Fi network using the WPS button on the printer, the printer (...
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How can I know whether my laserjet is using color toner to print black?
I've got an HP M176n all-in-one color laserjet printer. For quite a while now it's been displaying "black toner low" messages but I've been ignoring them, preferring only to replace the ...
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Windows 11 PC printing two pages to one sheet irrespective of settings
A Windows PC is insisting on printing two pages to one sheet on a network-attached Brother printer. I want to stop it doing this.
Problem only occurs with this specific PC and printer combination - ...
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Running CUPS on Raspberry Pi - Webpage unaccessable
I am trying to configure my Raspberry Pi to connect to my printer and allow me to print wirelessly using the cups webserver.
My Raspberry Pi 3b+ is running headless ubuntu:
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
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Printer Goes Offline After ~3.5 Hours
I have a client with two Epson wide format printers. One of them is older, an SC P5000, and it works perfectly. Nothing weird there.
They got a new printer, an SC P9000 a while back. Ever since, it ...
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Disable printer in Windows temporarily?
I have a printer at home and in the past, I managed to accidentally print things on it. In Windows, you can simply print something via right-click and I managed to hit that too.
Is there a way to ...
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Konica Minolta Bizhub C250i paper size error
I am constantly getting an error in printer Konica Minolta Bizhub C250i that states that there is insufficient amount of paper of chosen size (even if there is plenty). I then have to choose from ...
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Unable to add printer because of bad device-uri
I'm trying to add a network printer on Linux (Manjaro Gnome 43), but I cannot get it to work.
I am not able to add a printer via the GUI (Settings → Printers → Add Printer). Although the GUI detects ...
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Is it possible to remove a sub-printer from Windows 11
My Cannon printers installed fax machine as a sub-printer / sub-driver:
Even though this is a sub-printer and does not appear in the list (depicted in background) of system enabled / available ...
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I need to write a script that removes all printers, but leaves behind the print to PDF + Fax. It also needs a sanity check, eg found 6 removed 6
I need a little help making a script that removes all printers, ports and drivers apart from the default microsoft offerings such as fax and print to pdf, and any epson printers as those are for ...
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How to get data from printer hard drive toshiba e studio 3540c
We have an old printer we are throwing out, but we need to see what data was there before we decide on the method to discard the drive.
We want to avoid sending it to a data recovery shop to reduce ...
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Can not connect to printer on one laptop
So me and my wife have two laptops. Both of them are Macs. We also have a printer (Canon MG3600, though I really doubt this matters).
On one machine, we can print just fine. On the other, printing ...
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Make network printer accessible from outside LAN
I have an Epson L4150 printer that is perfectly accessible from inside my LAN, however I need it to accept print jobs from the internet (both from another home and from a Python script running in an ...
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Reset Admin Password on Ricoh MP 350+
The device was acquired through a re-seller from an unknown seller. Problem is the admin account has been set up and no one knows the password or even username. Does anyone know of a way to reset the ...
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Sharp Network Printer/Scanner Will Only Add as a Scanner. No Printing Functionality
I am attempting to diagnose an issue on an employees machine but have had no luck. Their particular machine stopped being able to print to the particular printer yesterday. I checked it this morning ...
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Best way to add a printer to a computer
We have an HP desk jet (HP DeskJet Ink Advantage 3835 All-in-One Printer) , and it is connected using wifi on our home router/modem network. However, I'm not sure if the computers of the other people ...
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Propagation of network printer among non-domain user
I work at small company and I want to establish Windows Server, as well as transfering every user of every computer to server domain. But as novice in administration, I would like to know, how is it ...
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HP 8620 printer always shows as “Offline” in Windows 11 Settings > Printers area
HP 8620 printer always shows as “Offline” in Windows 11 Settings > Printers area.
It has perfect Wi-Fi connection, with a Wi-Fi Extender right next to it. Our home only has one Wi-Fi network, the ...
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How to add paper formats to Windows 10 printer?
Custom paper sizes were so easy in old Windows versions, but Windows 10 is
so frustratingly "friendly" that such settings are incredibly difficult to find. Argh!
TL;DR: How can I add paper ...
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Can no longer print using CUPS
I have a Brother_HL_L3270CDW_series printer which worked out-of-the-box, was detected by Ubuntu 22.04 over WiFi and could print immediately.
It stopped working and I don't know why. With cupsctl --...
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Windows 10 Enterprise/Education/LTSC and Insecure Guest Logon issue with Printing, error 0x0000011b
The reason for this intro: there's a ton of outright false information on the Internet about this pernicious issue.
Here's the situation.
A company of a friend of mine has Windows 10 LTSC workstations ...
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Is it possible to add a username and password when mapping a network printer on Windows 10 in the command line?
For instance,
start \server\printername (username) (password)
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Make an old network printer findable via AirPrint
I have a few Brother MFC-9970CDW and HL-4570CDWs which are both currently connected to my local network and works fine when printing from a computer, but neither of these support AirPrint.
I'm ...
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CUPS 2.3.3op2 doesn't detect USB printer
I'm experiencing a problem with my printing server based on CUPS. Around a week ago it stopped detecting my USB printer. Tried reintalling the OS, nothing changed. All commands outputs are from OS ...
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Is Windows network printing going to start failing again?
Last year, I helped some folks with Windows-machine networks with printing issues, figuring out (thanks to the magic of the interwebz) that Microsoft updates broke network printing somehow. Avoiding/...
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Why does my print job sometimes contain a form feed character and other times just insert more lines?
I am having an issue and I am just wracking my brain. We have a report being sent out of a program that as far as I can tell has a form feed character in the output. When this report is printed, it ...
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HP Neverstop Laser MFP 1202nw does not Print PDF on Ubuntu 22.04
I recently purchased an HP Neverstop Laser MFP 1202nw which I successfully installed as wifi printer on my Ubuntu 22.04 System. It print smoothly when printing simple textfiles from gedit or pluma.
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Epson ET-2726 printer fails to respond
I have an Epson ET-2726 printer that won't respond much.
If I try, for example, to go into Wi-Fi Setup Wizard I get the
message "Printer busy. Please try again later".
Trying to print (Wi-...
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How to get HP printer's unique email address without printing?
I have an HP Deskjet 2600 all-in-one series. I want to sign up to Instant Ink, for which I need the printer's unique email address, similar to [email protected]. I talked to HP support for ...
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Force Windows to check for printer status
When I want to print something I have to turn on my network printer. This usually takes about a few seconds to get it online and then I can start printing from my phone or my MacBook.
However, with ...
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Create virtual Printer where each tray is its own printer
I have a piece of software that prints many types of reports automatically including labels, A4 Notes, etc. Before clicking print I have to select the correct printer. If I choose the wrong one it ...
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Is there a way to make a Windows Server consume it's own shared printers?
I have Windows Server 2019 with some network printers installed using Standard TCP/IP-ports. That server shares all of those printers and pushes them using GPO/GPP to some clients. The printers are ...
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Print job in queue but nothing prints
Brother L5850 connected via TCP to Server 2012 R2.
When I write to the print spooler to the UNC (\server\BL5850) the print job shows up in the print queue, then disappears quickly as if it printed, ...
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