D 39;link Printer Server Setup

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Aug 3, 2024, 3:22:34 PM8/3/24

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I have an d-link dp-311p print server which provides the printer status(offline, paper out, etc) on it's interface.How can i get this oid status ?? i'm trying to find through axence nettools but there is A LOT of keys and the descriptions are not friendly...Also, i'm trying to use this code(c#) to access the print server status but no success...please, need a light, i'm completely lost!Tks everyone

Today I've just bought a Canon i-SENSYS LBP6000B printer and installed it directly using USB port to my Windows 8 x64 based computer with Canon Advanced Printing Technology for Canon LBP6000/LBP6018 R1.50 Ver.1.10 I've download from Canon website.

Everything works fine and it's a great fast printer but since we have 4 computers in our house, and I don't regularly leave my computer on, I tried to use a D-Link DPR-1020 Print Server I bought earlier to connect this canon printer to my D-Link DIR-619L Wireless Router so other network users will be able to print even though I'm out and off.

But no matter how many ways I tried, I've still got no luck to make my printer work with the print server. It's also nice to mention that the D-Link Print Server was working fine with an Epson Stylus Photo R270 earlier.

2. I've read in multiple places and sources that all Canon Printers with CAPT drivers are unable to work with any of Print Servers in world since Canon Advanced Printing Technology only supports basic home uses and does not support or understand network (LPR) requests sent by Print Servers. Is that true?

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LBP6000 worked fine on a linksys ac1750 (router with printserver). But doesn't on a USRobotics5461 (router with printserver) and NP330 (usb-printserver). Although tcp-portsettings are similar for all three. Printjobs dissapear in space...

The TP-LINK TL-PS110U print server allows you to take the computer out of the loop while setting up a printing network. All that is needed is to connect the TL-PS110U to a printer via the USB port, connect the print server to your LAN, and you will be able to access your printer from any computer on the LAN.

TP-LINK print servers support a majority of operating systems including Windows, Netware, Unix/Linux, and Mac. Also TP-LINK print servers support a number of network protocols including TCP/IP, IPX/SPX, NetBEUI, Apple Talk, LPR, IPP/SMB, RAW TCP, increasing the width of application.

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Hello, I've just recently flashed OpenWRT on my TP-Link TL-WR1043ND v4 device and I'd like to start setting up the things why I wanted to install this firmware It starts with a printer server. The printer is a simple USB-connected one, which I'd like to use from the network.

I've just downloaded right from the website from the suggested link. Nothing self-compiled trick or things like that. All I've done is that I upgraded the packages which were installable from the reopository (opkg list-upgradable).

I recently upgraded my firmware on my Archer A7 v5.0 to 1.0.11 Build 20190810 rel.50990(5553) and I seem to have lost my print server settings. All I see under USB devices is the file share settings. What happened to the printer control? Now my wireless usb printer will not print and will not show in the desktop print controller utility anymore.

This is actually not a bug but by design. TP-Link is acutally removing the Print Server feature from our product lines. Its only true purpose was for printers without network connectivity. If your printer has Etherent or wireless functionality then just connect it to your router via one of those methods and then search for a network printer to find and use the printer. If your printer is older and only connects via USB then you would need to downgrade the software to the previous version to regain this funictionality.

@Carl Well that's unfortunate. I bought this device because of this capability. I use a label printer which does not offer networked printing and want to keep it centalized in my home. If TP-Link is no longer going to be supporting this type of feature then I'll unfortunately probably change to a different manufacturer that does. Thanks anyways. This router was a waste of money apparently.

I solved my problem by just abandoning the router option and set up a cheap Raspberry Pi as a print server with CUPS. To make it easier instead of going through all the technical CUPS installation you can just use Chrome Cloud Print feature to link your printer to your google account; then just leave that pc running at home and no matter where you are, as long as you are logged into Chrome you can cloud print back to that printer.

Yes in most cases you should be able to downgrade the firmware to a previous version to restore the feature. There are some cases such as with the patch that fixed the crack vunlrebilty that you would not be able to downgrade but those are few and fa between.

Honestly, the likely answer is comptaiblity. A majority of printers on the market these days have some sort of network fuctionality, wether that be wireless or ethernet. I personally just picked up a wireless HP printer over the holiday for $25 bucks. With these printers the print server feature is not needed. It was typically only used to connect older USB or serial based printers that had no network function and make them network printers. There were always compatiblity issues with printers too, so as these printers become used less and less in favor of more efficent and cost effective models the need for such a feature is less.

@Patrick0789 Oh you've got to be kidding. I JUST bought this thing because our old router was having issues and this router has a USB port so I could plug my printer in. I just set it up yesterday, got everything working right and saw there was a firmware update. So I updated it and now nobody can print to our printer. Anyone need a $50 brick? Now I have to put the old crappy router back in and huddle for wifi bandwidth like cowboys around a campfire. What firmware update REMOVES functions? By design, my butt. Somebody broke something and doesn't want to admit they screwed it up so now it's a "feature".

@Patrick0789, I just bought an Archer A7 (May, 2020). It was not advertised as having print server capabilities. I was surprised to find that the software interface for the router indicated that it did have print server capabilities. I did not have to revert to any legacy firmware for the router.

However, I did have to download (from the TP-Link center, on the page for the Archer A7) the USB_Printer_Controller_Utility_Windows onto my Windows 10 computer and install it. The web page shows a published date of 2017-12-25 for that utility. However once the utility is installed and running, the utility itself shows a date of 2012. So the utility is definitely a legacy program.

I have another, new, Windows 10 computer that had never printed to that old HP printer before. THis computer was on WiFi. It was not able to see the HP printer that is attached to the Archer A7 router. So I tried plugging the printer directly into this new computer by USB, and the computer installed drivers for it (PCL 5 drivers). Then I unplugged the printer from the computer and plugged it back into the Archer A7 router. The computer is now able to see the printer and print to it.

Goodmorning guys, I'm trying to connect the printer HP LaserJet 1018 to the modem D-Link DVA 5592 so that I can share it on my local net. I followed some instructions found on the web and I was able to install the printer on my PC but I can't print any document. So I decided to uninstall everything so that I could start from the beginning. However, now when I try to configure the printer found in local net from "Eslpora Risorse" I get the error "Impossibile connettersi alla stampante. Memoria insufficiente per completare l'operazione. Chiudere alcuni programmi e riprovare". What can I do?

When you connect a printer through a print server (A USB port of a router to allow printer sharing), printing is depends on the print server configuration and capabilities, those are controlled by your DLINK router and not by HP...

Regardless, by verifying your router functionality it do not seems to offer any print server functionality, the USB ports are meant for connecting a 3G/4G dongle or a USB storage device, not a printer... as listed on page 4 of its manual below:

Hi Shlomi, thank you for your explanation! Searching on web I have found that someone has been able to connect a printer to this router via USB port, so I'm trying to do the same. All I can do now is contact D-Link support. Thank you again!