Ts Printer Port

[Amie Mandy]

Wecurrently use print server for our hospitals but for individual clinics we have the printers installed directly and as of right now we are told there are immediate plans to out them on print server.

I have seen it happen post Windows updates. Most of the time we have installed drivers and printers using a print server so no WSD but after a Windows update suddenly some printers have drivers switched to WSD and stop working. Thanks Microsoft for thinking you know better than us! Not!

Where people often get confused is the type of printer port, not to mention the various printer port functions, printer port definitions and printer port names. Do any kind of research into this field and you can quickly drown in acronyms: LPT1, SCSI, USB, TCP/IP, COM1 and so on.

Long, long ago, computers were sold with chunky, trapezoid ports on the back. These were known as parallel ports, and they were used to physically hook up your computer to a peripheral device, like a printer.

A virtual printer port just means assigning your computer a printing protocol and hooking up to a network. The physical connection between computer and printer is all done through the network connection (usually via a Wi-Fi router). Think of it as a software interface that emulates a physical cable.

I have a USB connected HP OfficejetG85xi printer with a Compaq Presario CQ5107c computer running Windows 7. All print jobs fail after I pulled the printer USB cable from the back of the computer and used it for a thumbdrive. I rebooted the computer before reconnecting the printer's USB cable. I used HP Printer and Scan Doctor 5.0. After clicking the Fix tab and several restarts I received the message that the program could not fix the problem and to use HP Customer Care. I found the same Forum issue for a different printer, but the response did not solve the problem. The response was to right click on the printer (in the Devices and Printer window, I assume), select Properties, then select the Ports tab. When I try to follow those directions, there is no Ports tab. How do I reasign the printer to the proper port and how do I know the port designation for each of the 6 USB connections on my computer?

I have solved my own problem. The error message "wrong printer port configured" is the exact problem and the solution is to change the port to the correct port. Following are the required actions in Windows 7:

Reinstalling the printer is a last resort as the computer came with Vista and a free upgrade to Windows 7. So the printer install disk is for Vista, not Windows 7. Hopefully, I could down load all the drivers from HP Support, but I'm concerned with knowing what all the drivers are.

I am sure the printer was plugged into one of the 4 USB ports on the back of the computer and 2 of those ports have been used for a long time for expansion drives. I have tried using the Print and Scan Doctor for both the remaining ports without success. Furthermore, regardless of which of those 2 ports the printer is plugged into, my computer can use the G85xi to scan documents. Also, looking at the Device Manager at IEEE11284.4 devices, the G85xi is the only device listed and the properties correctly indicates which USB port the printer is plugged into and indicates that the device is working properly.

I have a Canon printer, and I want to connect my new, HP laptop to it. I don't see a USB type port on the printer, though I do see a 'phone' cable type port. What kind of cable would I use to make the connection? As far as my laptop, it seems to only have an HDMI and a USB port.

Thanks for joining the conversation, gidmeister! The USB connection port on your PIXMA TR8520 is on the back of the unit. You'll need an A-to-B USB cable. The B-type connector has a square shape compared to the relatively flat rectangular shape of the A-type connector.

It would be VERY helpful if the information about needing a printer cable was included on the box. The way it's phrased makes it sound as though the printer -- like my two previous PIXMAs -- uses a regular USB cable, and this most decidedly does not. People generally want to be able to use a product straight out of the box without needing a second trip to Staples.

I have added a local printer port with address to a network address. The port started giving problems. So, I tried to delete it by going in printer management but it says the required resource is in use. Turning off printer spooler service did not work. There is no trace of printer port in registry. What should I do?

I used 3 different cables on the printer and pc (on the pc everyone worked)

I tried connecting a keyboard to the raspberry pi (to see if the usb port works and it connected)

I typed in "dmesg -w" in SSH and it showed "usb usb1-port1: connection debounce failed"

Ich glaube in deutsch kann ich mich besser ausdrcken. Mein Problem ist, dass ich in Octoprint mich nicht mit meinem Drucker verbinden kann, dass heit, dass ich in Octoprint reinkomme und mich anmelden kann aber wenn ich auf verbinden drcke steht da, dass Octoprint keinen seriellen Port gefunden hat. (was er auch noch nie gemacht hat, also octoprint konnte sich schon von Anfang an nicht mit dem Drucker verbinden).

I personally use TCP/IP port assignments even in a home setting and ensure that I set a static IP address for my home wireless and wired printers. Then I go into the port settings of the printer on my computer and specifically set it up to use tcp/ip and not the WSD port it seemingly always wants to use.

One of the ways you can proactively stop a printer from suddenly jumping over to using a WSD port is to go into the web access of the printer and find the setting and disable it. Each printer manufacturer is a little different but the gist is the same. Turn it off to keep it off.

We have a virtual printer (provided by a 3rd party) that is getting assigned to an invalid local printer port. The printer is always local (we aren't dealing with a remote print server or anything like that). I'd like to create a new local port (specific for our application), then configure the printer to be assigned to that port instead of the random (and often incorrect) port that the print driver installer chooses.

I recently installed and MX67W. All clients connecting via wireless are having no issue, I have a desktop plugged in that is connected no issue; however, my printer that is connected to port 2 is showing as "offline" to all wireless and wired clients. When I tried to run a diagnostics on the printer, it claimed there was a firewall issue, but I do not have any firewalling codes set up to block anything.

What speed/duplex does the port show the connection as in the Dashboard? (Mouse over the port and it will show you). Check the DHCP server to see if it has issued an IP address (I'm guessing not, if its not appearing in the Dashboard)

Not sure if it's related, but I've had these types of issues before. The problem was that the printer was going into a low power mode and appeared to be switching off part of its Ethernet controller (probably part of Energy Efficient Ethernet). The result was the Meraki kit dropped back to 10Mbps half duplex and communications failed. To get around this I forced the port to 1Gbps full duplex, and the issue went away.

You have to make these (speed/duplex) changes from the local admin page on the MX. The other option is to look at the printer and see if there is a power setting you can disable that might achieve the same outcome (if that is the issue of course).

Okay, so I'd suggest the steps from here are test the printer in a known working port (e.g. the one the desktop is in). If that doesn't work, then I'd try forcing the speed/duplex on the port to see if that works. If you have a spare switch I'd try it on that too (maybe connect the printer to the switch, and the switch to the MX), but I'm beginning to think the issue is with the printer. You can also try a packet capture and see if any thing is coming into the port at all. Its just a matter of narrowing down the issue.

You have to connect to the local status page on the MX - mx.meraki.com. This will allow you to change the ports on the MX from auto-negotiate to various fixed speeds and duplex. More details on the local status page are here, _Administration/Tools_and_Troubleshooting/Using_the_Cisco_Me....

The printer is likely showing offline in dashboard because it isn't passing any traffic. Once it starts passing traffic it will show up as an active client. Once it stops it will likely go "offline" in dashboard. Totally expected behavior as we use traffic as a way to determine if it's online.

Some suggested avenues of troubleshooting. I apologize if this is above your comfort level, this is a public forum so I'm trying to include as much information as possible in case others might benefit. If that's the case you might go ahead and speak with Meraki Support.

If you're familiar with Wireshark I would suggest you take a packet capture on the LAN interface of the MX with a filter expression of "host IPofPrinter" (it might just be easier to start by taking a packet capture on the wired computer). See how it's communicating, and the type of traffic that it's sending. If you're not familiar with Wireshark, now might be a great opportunity to take a peek at what's going on. If you check out my Wireshark community post, I have some information about getting started. Based on the age that you mentioned, the thing that I would be interested in most is seeing if the computer and printer can form a TCP handshake: SYN, SYN-ACK, ACK. It could very well be some other method that you'd need to find from the manufacture.

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