Getting a pointsource vi310 on the network

[Guest]

Hi Guys,

This is probably a long shot. Like really a long shot. But here's what's up.

I got this pointsource vi310 (Kyocera Mita) from a remainder of my dads company. So this heavy baby is a leftover, and after some long travelling on its side, I'd to manually replace developer and toner, clean the whole machine and the lot.

So, I got it up and running again, copying like a baby (although two-sided prints hang all the time), but I'd like to get it printing from my pc, as it once did in the office.

So i plugged it into my network to do some bulk printing, but no signal, what-so-ever! Neither does the second light flash on the network card (on the copier), nor does my router or pc mention anything different. This makes met think the network-port isn't a regular RJ45 port after all? Perhaps it requires a cross-cable? Or does it function otherwise?

As I've read somewhere, there are only XP-drivers available, hereto I installed a VMware XP-machine, but no luck there either.

How do you guys think I can get this machine connected to my network and printing (again)? Or do I just put it outside next to the dumpster?
Best,

[ss12]

Re: Getting a pointsource vi310 on the network

Hi Guys,

This is probably a long shot. Like really a long shot. But here's what's up.

I got this pointsource vi310 (Kyocera Mita) from a remainder of my dads company. So this heavy baby is a leftover, and after some long travelling on its side, I'd to manually replace developer and toner, clean the whole machine and the lot.

So, I got it up and running again, copying like a baby (although two-sided prints hang all the time), but I'd like to get it printing from my pc, as it once did in the office.

So i plugged it into my network to do some bulk printing, but no signal, what-so-ever! Neither does the second light flash on the network card (on the copier), nor does my router or pc mention anything different. This makes met think the network-port isn't a regular RJ45 port after all? Perhaps it requires a cross-cable? Or does it function otherwise?

As I've read somewhere, there are only XP-drivers available, hereto I installed a VMware XP-machine, but no luck there either.

How do you guys think I can get this machine connected to my network and printing (again)? Or do I just put it outside next to the dumpster?
Best,

the machine probably has a static ip address from its previous connection.set the machine to dhcp and see if it picks up an ip address from your router

[rthonpm]

Re: Getting a pointsource vi310 on the network

Also make sure your VM is set up with a bridged IP, and not an NAT address to ensure it's hitting the network instead of staying in its own private one.

[Smen]

Re: Getting a pointsource vi310 on the network

Thanks guys for the quick replies.

I've figured out it used a fixed IP, however, I haven't been able to get into the (or a) menu to change it since it probably needs administrator access or something?.

Thanks for the VM-ware tip, that would have saved me a couple of hours two years ago trying to test win7-beta on vmware then...

[ss12]

Password for that model is 6482 I think.You should be able to access network settings through a menu on the control panel

[Smen]

Re: Getting a pointsource vi310 on the network

Thanks so much, I'll give it a shot!