Configuring Laserjet 4050 Windows 7

[Ray_Willis]

My wife bought a surplus HP Laserjet 4050 printer from her employer. It has an XCD XJet 3000 EIO card. I have an ethernet connection to my router and all my mobile devices (Android and Apple) can print to it. However, I've not been successful in configuring it so that my Windows 7 Professional desktop can find it and connect. If someone can provide or direct me to the configuration information I need I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks.

[rthonpm]

Re: Configuring Laserjet 4050 Windows 7

For that old of a machine, you'll need to use HP's universal driver from their website, then just add the device like any other network printer.

Some versions of the Universal Driver (I avoid it like the plague, but in this case it's your only option) will also do the install for you so you'll just need to know the IP of the device and it should work.

[Ray_Willis]

Re: Configuring Laserjet 4050 Windows 7

Thanks. I'll look for the universal driver.

[Ray_Willis]

Re: Configuring Laserjet 4050 Windows 7

Success! I appreciate the help.

[tech28]

Re: Configuring Laserjet 4050 Windows 7

Unfortunately, a lot of times when you disconnect or shut off the power to the printer(or computer), you will loose connection and will have re install it all over again. Seen this happen many times.

[rthonpm]

Re: Configuring Laserjet 4050 Windows 7

Unfortunately, a lot of times when you disconnect or shut off the power to the printer(or computer), you will loose connection and will have re install it all over again. Seen this happen many times.

Only if the printer is set to DHCP: give the printer a static IP outside of the range of IP's that your router supplies (you can find this in its web interface) then you don't need to worry about the address ever changing unless you do it.

Something you always need to find on the network, like a printer, or a server, should always have a static IP.

[Ray_Willis]

Re: Configuring Laserjet 4050 Windows 7

Only if the printer is set to DHCP: give the printer a static IP outside of the range of IP's that your router supplies (you can find this in its web interface) then you don't need to worry about the address ever changing unless you do it.

Something you always need to find on the network, like a printer, or a server, should always have a static IP.

Thanks. I do have it set up with a static IP. My post yesterday about success was premature. I had only heard it print when I selected to print a test page, so assumed all was well. Later, when I actually looked at the page, I realized it was an error message. After work today I re-downloaded print drivers and went through the add printer process again. Now it is actually printing what I expect. However, the IP I assigned is within the range of IPs the router supplies, but at the upper end. I'm not that familiar with networking so thought I would have to choose one within the range. I'm hoping that by specifying one toward the upper end of the range I won't run into issues as it was difficult enough to get this set up and working in the first place.

Thanks for the help!

[rthonpm]

Re: Configuring Laserjet 4050 Windows 7

So long as you have no chance of getting enough devices on your network to cause an IP conflict you should be alright. For myself, and customers, I've used a scheme of using specific blocks for static IP's: anything with the last octet between 2-9 is an infrastructure device or server (wireless repeater, DHCP server, domain controller, etc); 10-19 is a printer or MFP; 20-29 non-infrastructure servers (file/print, application, etc); the rest of the block outside of DHCP then becomes open for any other kind of customer specific need (Linux hosts, other resources, overflow from one of the other groups, virtual machines, etc).

Since I have to deal with so many different networks, it helps me keep a good idea of just where the issue may lie from knowing the IP.

[Ray_Willis]

Re: Configuring Laserjet 4050 Windows 7

Sounds well thought out.

[stopeon]

Re: Configuring Laserjet 4050 Windows 7

My wife bought a surplus HP Laserjet 4050 printer from her employer. It has an XCD XJet 3000 EIO card. I have an ethernet connection to my router and all my mobile devices (Android and Apple) can print to it. However, I've not been successful in configuring it so that my Windows 7 Professional desktop can find it and connect. If someone can provide or direct me to the configuration information I need I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks.

Just recently I used HP's universal driver to setup a LaserJet 2200 I still had kicking around. I'm curious, though, what did you use for the Android? HP's apps seemed to stop at my wireless MFP, and ignore the wired printer.

[Ray_Willis]

Re: Configuring Laserjet 4050 Windows 7

I use an app named PrinterShare that I have used for several years. Like you, I have been unable to get the HP app to find anything other than my wireless DeskJet.

[stopeon]

Re: Configuring Laserjet 4050 Windows 7

I did find an app called PrinterBot, but I'm not sure I like it.

[rthonpm]

Re: Configuring Laserjet 4050 Windows 7

I've been using the Android port of PrintHand on my BlackBerry for about a year and it works great for just about any network printer, including a few old 4100's that a customer has. It is a paid app, but for the amount of devices it works with it was worth the $4.99. It's available for just about every mobile platform.

PrintHand. Mobile printing solution. Easy!


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