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Re: [QuadtoneRIP] Re: QTR and Epson 3880 Printer Not Responding

2015-09-12 by Andrew Sharpe

It's not a LAN; it is a discovery protocol. If it works for you, great.
I prefer to have devices at constant IP addresses.

Andrew


On 9/11/15 9:16 PM, Roy Harrington roy@... [QuadtoneRIP] wrote:
>  
> 
> I'd also go for the Bonjour method.  Its pretty much Apple's preferred
> LAN connection.
> (I don't know that its easy to set a fixed address for all the various
> Epson printers).
> If possible I'd always recommend USB if the cord can reach, but after
> that Bonjour handles
> printers connected via ethernet cable, wireless, usb to airport router
> -- specifically handling
> the IP numbers.
> 
> With QTR there are two ways to setup Bonjour.  You can always directly
> got SysPrefs > Print&Scan
> and Add a printer -- select the Epson printer (Bonjour not Epson IP),
> name it Quad...., and
> run the correct install script to install the profiles.  The other which
> was added a version ago
> was to connect an Epson driver the printer with Bonjour,  then the QTR
> install script recognizes
> the Epson driver connection and duplicates it.
> 
> Roy
> 
> On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 8:59 PM, jeff.grant@...
> <mailto:jeff.grant@...> [QuadtoneRIP] <QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com
> <mailto:QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com>> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>     Bonjour must do some magic. I have been using ethernet attached
>     printers via Bonjour for years, and it has never missed a beat. In
>     fact, it kept on working a couple of years back when my network
>     numbering changed from 192.168.0 to 192.168.15.
> 
>     Anyway, I hope that this is helping the OP somewhere along the line.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Roy Harrington
> roy@... <mailto:roy@...>
> www.harrington.com <http://www.harrington.com>
> 
>

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