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5. From your Workstation's Desktop, click Start/Settings/Printers (Start/Printers and Faxes in XP), right
mouse click on the Printer's icon and select Properties. From the Details Tab (95/98/Me) or the
Ports
Tab (NT4 and 2000) determine the Port that the driver is using to print through. For peer to
peer communications, the port name should match the SMB Host name of the Device as shown on
the Settings List. If it doesn't you are printing to the wrong port and either need to select the correct
port or use the Add Port button to create a new port for the driver to print through. Follow the
instructions supplied in the NetBIOS over IP Peer to Peer Printing procedure in the Print Drivers
section of this guide. If the name matches, use the General Tab of the driver to print a test page to
determine the status of communications between the Workstation and the Device.
6. If communicating with the device in a Client/Server environment, at the Workstation's Desktop double
click the Network Neighborhood icon ("My Network Places" in Windows Me) and see if the Printer's
Server
is displayed. If you double click on the Server's name, a list of Shared printers should be
displayed, with the Printer being one of the devices shown. Note that since the Printer is identified as
a Share name on the Server, it may NOT have the same name as the SMB Host name on the
Settings List. If you do not recognize your Server or Printer's name in the list, perform the following
step.
7. From your Workstation's Desktop, click Start/Settings/Printers (Start/Printers and Faxes in XP), right
mouse click on the Printer's icon and select Properties. From the Details Tab (95/98/Me) or the
Ports
Tab (NT4 and 2000) determine the Port that the driver is using to print through. For
Client/Server communications, the port name should be in the form of a UNC (universal naming
convention) such as \\Computer_name\Share_name. If it isn't you are printing to the wrong port and
either need to select the correct port or use the Add Port button to create a new port for the driver to
print through. If the name looks correct, use the General Tab of the driver to print a test page to
determine the status of communications between the Workstation and the Device.
8. Note that if you have the "UNC" of the Printer, you can enter this into the text box of the Run
command on your workstation. When you press Enter, the workstation will attempt to reconnect to
the network Server and Printer Share that was specified by the UNC. Depending upon how the
Server was configured you can then either manually or automatically reinstall the driver.
9. To assure successful printing, make sure that the Device is configured to support the Page
Description Language (PDL) being used by your driver. To check the PDL being used by the driver,
print a test job "to file." Open and view the job in a program such as Notepad. The PDL being used
by the driver will be displayed in the first few lines of Printer Language. Next, check the Page
Description Languages being supported by the Device's ports by following the instructions supplied
under the Setting PDL Emulations procedure in the Internet Services section of this guide. The
PDL being used by the driver, and the PDL supported by the Port you are printing to, MUST match for
successful printing to occur.