Ping a WIFI printer from a W7 laptop - possible?

[Gene E. Bloch]

The two aren't that different. ;-)

I'll give you a point for that one

Ok, I'll give it a pull. Why don't you broadcast your SSID?

So that unskilled people won't see it.

 

[Char Jackson]

I'll give you a point for that one


So that unskilled people won't see it.

That, and MAC filtering, aren't tools that I use, but carry on.

 

[charlie]

I don't mind the tiny amount of extra work. And I get headaches anyway



Are you sure?

As a parting comment - - -
Epson cleaned up the printer network software quite a bit over the last
couple of years! The first recent model multifunction was a workforce
600. It's drivers and install (Particularly the network install was
troublesome.)

Moving on, the last was a workforce 645. It installed with out any
problems.

The very early 600 Epson series drivers and "included" windows drivers
used to fight with each other. Originally, the scanner drivers were the
biggest problem. One of the things I thought was sort of odd was that
Viewscan claimed to not be network capable, yet by some random chance,
if both windows and the Epson drivers were made to co-exist properly,
(mostly trial and error at the time), then View scan would work over the
network. Today's Viewscan version should work properly over the network,
at least with Win 7 and XP. (Haven't tried it on Win8)
Getting it to "see" the networked scanner is the usual problem to be
overcome.

 

[John]

The wife's W7 laptop has problems with a Kodak ESP 5250 WIFI printer. If
the printer is cold started she can print but after a while the printer
is no longer available to the laptop. However the internet (via WIFI) is
still available when this happens so its not a problem with the DSL WIFI
modem (Verizon supplied Westell A90-750015-07) - at least that I can see.

My hard wired work station can always print so its not a malfunctioning
printer in that respect but rather appears to be a printer or W7
software problem - maybe just a setting that I am not aware of ?

So is there a way to ping the printer from the laptop to 'wake it up' so
to speak or at least to trouble shoot?

Obviously networking and WIFI woes aren't my strong suit so be gentle


Thanks,
John

I straightened out some issues with SeaMonkey's printing (her browser
preference, not mine) that I think was the root cause. It seemed to have
an intermittent problem remembering what device to print to and once the
wrong one was inadvertently selected it then became the default for a
few other apps she uses.

By the way, both pinging the printer via WIFI (to wake it up) and
sharing the printer via the XP box work. I have since set them back to
the original not shared scenario and everything is working as it
originally did when the laptop was put into service.

Thanks all! I have learned a few things and the wife is happy now

John

 

[SC Tom]

I straightened out some issues with SeaMonkey's printing (her browser
preference, not mine) that I think was the root cause. It seemed to have
an intermittent problem remembering what device to print to and once the
wrong one was inadvertently selected it then became the default for a few
other apps she uses.

By the way, both pinging the printer via WIFI (to wake it up) and sharing
the printer via the XP box work. I have since set them back to the
original not shared scenario and everything is working as it originally
did when the laptop was put into service.

Thanks all! I have learned a few things and the wife is happy now

John

Glad it's working for you!
". . the wife is happy now" Most important