apple airport extreme and printer help

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recently picked up a airport extreme to use for a few reason one was to turn our printer into a wireless printer without have to have a pc on

so mac loaded up and instantly recognised it well impressed so easy compare to windows

so load the pc up and went to network connection and looked for the printer with no luck pc is hooked up to the extreme aswell

added a printer tried via network too still no printer any idea please
 
Get another mac? ;)

Set the printer to a fixed ip address first just in case it is moving around. Think there is then some way to add a network printer by specifying the ip address.

Found a youtube vid. No idea whether it is any use: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gj7dTOGApXE
 
network and ip i know what they are and what they do but im not at that stage yet lol

it is one thing on my list for christmas to stick each device as a seperate ip address to stop any issue's our work had to do that because of the amount of pc's on the network

of that the case then it might be something i will have to do
 
It's easy. Somewhere in the airport extreme there will be a way of 'reserving' an ip address. Usually you can pick off a list that are already connected so they'll always get that one. Most of the time they do tend towards keeping the same ones anyway but printers and servers etc really need to keep the same one. Doesn't really matter so much about laptops/pcs etc.
 
wegotitugetit said:
network and ip i know what they are and what they do but im not at that stage yet lol

it is one thing on my list for christmas to stick each device as a seperate ip address to stop any issue's our work had to do that because of the amount of pc's on the network

of that the case then it might be something i will have to do
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You shouldn't need to specify individual addresses, either your dhcp server has a ridiculously low amount of leases available or just isn't working properly.

Going back to the printer you'll probably need to add it as an ip port printer.

So depending on your version of windows, add new local printer then change port to standard tcpip and enter the ip of the printer, then install the driver when prompted.
 
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