printing on a fixed ip adress help

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so currently we have fibre optic in our premises and the router is set to
192.168.1.1

i ordered a rinter server from amazon and has a prefix of 192.168.0.1

as these two are both on diffrent band's i was advised to change to 192.168.1.250 which i have done

on a windows machine i can ping the 192.168.1.250 and it finds it

but if i go to printers then type the adress it does not find it

any ideas for this please

my mac can find it but does not print am i missing something here

the printer is a sharp mx-182d these are not a small printer from currys these are proper printers but would of cost almost £250 + for the same version with wifi in / to able to use as a fix ip adress

i really need some help with this please i have looked and cant figure out what i have missed
 
What is the subnet mask and gateway set on the printer (and pc's and router)?

It should be 255.255.255.0 and 192.168.1.1

To fiond out what it is on a PC, open a command prompt and run

ipconfig

on a Mac, I think it is

ifconfig

(well, it is on FreeBSD which OSX is based on).
 
on the printer server not the printer

the sub net was left the same as the original as i was told this

as for the ip for the printer server it was changed to 192.168.1.250 if you look on the net alot of people tell you to do this so im happy with that

all the pc are not static ip adress i have not had chance to go around all of them yet , never done it before on top of that the router interface is diffrent to what im use to so im going to have a read up etc before i start messing with them
 
wegotitugetit said:
on the printer server not the printer

the sub net was left the same as the original as i was told this

as for the ip for the printer server it was changed to 192.168.1.250 if you look on the net alot of people tell you to do this so im happy with that

all the pc are not static ip adress i have not had chance to go around all of them yet , never done it before on top of that the router interface is diffrent to what im use to so im going to have a read up etc before i start messing with them
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depends if you already had a device on 1.250..

can you tell us the IP of both the mac and pc along with subnet and gateway. and what you have set the subnet of the printer to.
 
neil_g said:
can you tell us the IP of both the mac and pc along with subnet and gateway. and what you have set the subnet of the printer to.
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:agree:

Can't do any diagnostics without that...
 
im confused.

"on a windows machine i can ping the 192.168.1.250 and it finds it

but if i go to printers then type the adress it does not find it "

what exactly are you trying to achieve or is wrong?
 
wegotitugetit said:
printer is already working in windows on a home network

we need the fixed ip as not all pc's are connecting

ill have a look for the other settings in a min
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We understand what you are trying to do, just making sure everything is set consistently and correctly.
 
wegotitugetit said:
the printer is a sharp mx-182d these are not a small printer from currys these are proper printers but would of cost almost £250 + for the same version with wifi in / to able to use as a fix ip adres
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That is a small printer ;)

Ignore the message, didn't realise you had a print server and a printer. It is always much easier to use the printer server built into the device as it also opens up other features that you may miss by using another printer server
 
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