AR-M237 -parallel port printing

[Toner Boy]

No NIC on this one, trying to print via JetDirect 170X (ether-to-parallel). The old Gestetner MFP worked on it, the Kyocera printer works on it, the Sharp won't print from it even with NEW FIRMWARE and a different USB/Parallel interface board.
Of course my laptop has no parallel port on it to test with...I've got one of the Pricom 3100's I could try (after I dig up my Win98 laptop and try it). Anyone seen something like this? Might try an MCU memory reset but hate to do that unless its the last straw.

[OMD-227]

Just a thought.......

Have you checked the system settings menu & confirmed the Parallel port is enabled? If that was disabled, your jetdirect box will not see it.

[Toner Boy]

None of those options are appearing, only Default Settings and Interface Settings (under Print Settings group). I/O timeout is the only thing listed Interface Settings. The printer shows Online, printer shows up as Standard in configuration (22-10) and the firmware version under 22-5 is 1.00. It used to have an AR-P17/NIC that someone yanked out of it. Seems like something is disabled but I can't figure out what or where.

[OMD-227]

Run a printer NVRAM clear with 67-17. This should reset the standard print board.

The firmware for the standard GDI print board is actually 03.00. Maybe look into upgrading that. The MCU is v3.22 as well.

[Dark Helmet]

I tried hooking one of these things up to a router with a USB print server on it. The router would boot up fine, as soon as you hooked up the copier it would lock up the router.

I never had any luck getting these to run on webjets/hardware print server.

The Pricom 3100's come with a CD to set the IP address. Once the IP is set it's easy to put in the proper settings from the web page. If the pricom is set for DHCP you should be able to guess the IP address as most routers start at .150 and go up.

Last time i had to do a pricom it was used by some body else and had a static IP set so i had no idea what the IP was and was forced to use the CD that uses the MAC ID.

[oldrn]

The printer settings you are seeing under the Key Op printer settings should be ok. We have one running on our peer-to-peer network through the parallel port on a D-Link DP-300U. We also have another customer with an AR-M256 printing through a Trendnet TE-100P1P which uses the parallel port on the copier. On our setup, you have to use the GDI print driver. The network drivers will not work.

I am not familiar with the JetDirect to help with setting it up or testing. I wouldn't do too much without making sure you can print to the copier directly from a computer.

[Toner Boy]

Sorry guys, GDI driver did it, I should have known better but its been a long time for setting up w/out NIC. What threw me was that the machine wouldn't even print the JetDirect test page when you hit the test button. I knew the card was dumb but it wouldn't even process basic text. Thanks for your help.

[Toner Boy]

additional info

FYI there is no Win2003 Server GDI driver for these so I had to set them all up (11 computers) direct...good times.

[OMD-227]

Nice fix Tonerboy!

We are going to have similar issues I'm guessing with the new MX2310U's coming out that dont have PCL standard, only a GDI/SPLC driver standard. Yeah..... there's trouble on the horizon..........