Try opening the printers web interface
http:://printerip
I am assuming you have the necessary packages installed for printing?
Open the cups interface at localost:631 and change the printer port to ipp://printerip
Try opening the printers web interface
http:://printerip
I am assuming you have the necessary packages installed for printing?
Open the cups interface at localost:631 and change the printer port to ipp://printerip
Ok. Thanks
What now?
How can I enable wifi printing on Manjaro?
Should I do something with ports?
Network admin is from outside the company and we contact him when we have network outage only.
I can only do something wit my machine.
Do not know what
I have.
Printer is installed (I can change between USB and WIFI).
This:
http:://printerip
I will try tomorrow at work. I am here while outside workspace.
I have case backlog since Feb because of covid and little time to try private stuff.
I am ashamed to admit, but I did the same what I ask my users not to do:
I am able to ping. I took the address from the printer and ping it as it was. With “0” in front of the last sets of bits.
I was sure that I could ping them before, but now I couldn’t.
Months ago I actually removed the zeros and that is why I could ping.
So now - I can ping from all devices (Manjaro included) and I can print as well.
I have narrowed the problem - all texts come out of the printer with exceptions of table content.
I can print whatever I can, just not what is in a table.
Test print came out strange, my table with most often used terminal commands came out empty.
My document with one table was printed fine - just the table was empty.
Driver issue?
You need to find the correct ppd file
Leading zero would indicate octal representation - but apparently your printer messed it up when showing the ip.
Printers are the bane of my existence.
Mostly BOCAs and STAR printers. And few plastic card units our customers are using.
So… that is why I feel like and ass now
AUR? Or on Brother website?
I have installed all drivers from terminal
Many printer vendors only ships drivers in rpm or deb format.
Those requires repacking to work on Manjaro - perhaps you will have success with this AUR packages - note the comment on the dependency of lib32-libcups - you need multilib enabled in pacman.conf to install this.
Inputting the static IP on wireless printers implements an unusual pattern - my personal thinking is they want to ensure they can interpret the input to a valid IP - so they use 4x3 digits - using leading zeroes if the block is less than 3 digits.
When pinging such address one need to remembe that the leading zeroes must be omitted as they are not valid - they are only placeholders.
example - input on the printer display 192.168.00x.00y is translated to 192.168.x.y
I have a cheap HP scan/print device which uses the pattern - for all IPv4 settings.
I am using an old HL2240D and none of official drivers work with this so I use a custom ppd.
https://uex.dk/archive/Brother
That was a really bad decision. Leading spaces would have been ok. (But it is best not to do any extraordinary formatting in such case)
If this happens, go to Settings > Devices > Printers & Scanners, select your printer, and remove it. Then click Add a Printer or Scanner to re-add it to the device list. Incredibly (and frustratingly), this often gets things up and running again.