Re: Canon i9900 unable to be printed to by network

"peterf" <peterf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Thanks for the clarification, I'm not quite sure what to try next... maybe
I'll boot the W2K partition, install the printer on it and see what happens
with that. I thought that maybe there was some sort of USB/sharing issue
originally but now I'm at a bit of a loss. Thanks again for all your help.

Peter

Peter
I have watched this thread and did not respond because I had nothing to offer
at that time, but it seems you are now clutching at straws so I will provide a
few.
1. Are you using the built in XP networking functionality? Or are you using
Novell or similar?
2. At the beginning of the thread there was a debate about whether the drivers
should be installed on each PC or not, whilst I have no direct experience with
networking this printer I can emphatically advise that the generic answer is
"sometimes", it depends on the printer driver design. Some printers when
networked will load the drivers from the host PC and some will request the CD
with the drivers on, which one applies to your printer I do not know. What is
clear is that each PC can see the printer. If you go to control panel/printers
and right click on the printer icon (on a remote PC) is the printer reported as
either offline or paused? If either is so that is incorrect. In fact if the
icon is greyed out that is also incorrect. Sorry if this is basic but sometimes
the swamp hides the 'gators!
3. What cvt advised is technically correct but I have seen some very strange
phenomena with USB hubs and whilst you are not using a hub I wonder whether you
are right in suspecting the usb card. Is it easy to disable the card and use
the internal USB port just as a test? I have a scanner that works perfectly
with any internal usb port but will not work through 2 different makes of
powered USB hubs, I have also had a printer that works fine through a D-Link
hub but not a Belkin hub. So it is worth pursuing the usb direction I think.
4. When you install the printer on a remote PC, do you see any file transfer
activity from the host (loading drivers from the host) or altenatively do you
have to insert the CD? One of these should occur since your printer is not
natively supported by WinXP.
5. When you installed the printers on the remote PC's did you use add printer
and search for the networked printer or did you use some other method?
Out of ideas for now.
Good luck, please advise how you get on.
Tony
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