Printers

I have selected the ‘BINARY_P1’ service on the printer and renamed ‘BINARY_P1’ to ‘LPQR1’ [and changed the queue name under Windows Control Panel as well] and ‘LPQR1’ now also shows up on the printer under NetBIOS. I have set the queue name under RISC OS to ‘LPQ1’ (sic) and it all now works.

If you’re testing things then finding out whether the problem was the underscore or the name length (or both) would be useful.

Worth adding the result to the RISC OS FAQ page(s) too.

If you’re testing things then finding out whether the problem was the underscore or the name length (or both) would be useful.

Now that it is working, I can rename the queue name on the printer back to ‘BINARY_P1’ and switch it (and the Pandaboard) off and on again and it still works. So perhaps we’ll never know.

I’d start with http://192.168.1.87 and have a nose around, https might be required

Rats. I didn’t think of that.

Anyway, I’m glad it’s solved!

Rats. I didn’t think of that.

Ricoh, Brother and HP printers all over the hospital and about all I see of them is cocked up network protocol settings which I use the web control to change.

BTW. For anyone with networked printers:- the default settings have ALL protocols ON. Since AppleTalk and IPX are overly noisy and not used in 99.9% of setups they are best turned off, in fact mostly all you need is TCP IPv4 (I’d be surprised if any home user currently needed IPv6 turned on particularly on a printer).