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Question

2 different IP addresses between desktop/printer

Sep 8, 2015 11:43AM PDT

Cannot get the computer to talk to the printer . Does 2 different IP addresses cause the problem ?

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Re: 2 different IP addresses between desktop/printer
Sep 8, 2015 12:22PM PDT

The printer and the desktop have different IP-addresses. That's is as it should be.

When I installed a new printer last week, I didn't even consider to use it wirelessly (existing Ethernet-cable from desktop to router, wireless from router to printer). I just used the USB-cable that came off the old printer.

I told my wife she could, in principle, now print directly from her iPad or Android phone to the new printer. She wasn't interested at all, since she never prints anything from those devices. Lucky me, because it saves me having to set it up, which most likely after a few hours work would end in a failure. She doesn't mind at all, if she ever wants to print something from tablet or phone, to mail it to herself (or to me!) to print it from the desktop.
You see, we yet have to discover the advantages of wireless printing, like we have to discover the advantages of cloud storage.

Best of luck with the installation. Just do what the installation instruction tells you and it *should* work.

Kees

Post was last edited on September 8, 2015 12:24 PM PDT

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Define "Different"
Sep 8, 2015 6:32PM PDT

Different as in close but not the same, as in 192.168.1.20 and 192.168.1.21 or different as in
192.168.1.20 and 169.25.66.12?

Do you have a wireless network running from a wireless router in your home?

Do you also have a wired network, not unusual to have both, in your home.

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