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Re: If you print from Windows 10 to your LAN networked printer - have you also printed from Android? How?

From	"wasbit" <wasbitremove@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups	alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.comp.microsoft.windows, comp.periphs.printers
Subject	Re: If you print from Windows 10 to your LAN networked printer - have you also printed from Android? How?
Date	2020-11-25 10:23 +0000
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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"Arlen   Holder" <arlen_holder@newmachines.com> wrote in message 
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> On Tue, 24 Nov 2020 10:43:10 -0000, wasbit wrote:
>
>> I don't understand your question.
>
> Hi wasbit,
>
> Actually you do understand the question.
>
>> Where does Windows come into it other than to install the printer 
>> drivers.
>
> I said in the OP that Windows only comes in _if_ the solution is to use
> Windows (which it may very well need to be), e.g., as the print server
> (e.g., via cups, or samba, as also mentioned in the ancillary thread I
> referenced).
>
> The facts are that the Android phone ties closer to Windows than it does 
> to
> the Ethernet'd wired printer on the LAN; Windows is almost certainly going
> to be the intermediary, for a bunch of reasons, not only that Android
> connects to the SMB/CUPs services, but also because Windows can 'share' a
> printer.
>
> I've never needed to "share" a printer from Windows; but that may be the
> solution that works, given how nicely Android ties to Windows and how
> nicely Windows ties to the printer (and given how poorly Android ties to
> the printer).
>

Sharing a printer is, presumably, required when the printer is connected to 
a PC not a router.

>> Brother MFC L2700DW connected to router by ethernet allows anything on 
>> the
>> LAN to print. That's my Android tablet & visitors mobile phones.
>
> You're the second person to mention that a Brother printer has good enough
> software to connect directly between Android & the printer which is _only_
> on the LAN via its Ethernet connection to the router (i.e., it has an IP
> address).
>
> Can you look to see if that connection _also_ has a port involved, as some
> of the software I've been trying to get to work asks for both the IP
> address of the printer and the port (where I don't know what the port is).
>

I always give the printer a static IP address.

Taken from the printer properties & as installed by the Brother drivers
Port: 192.168.x.x
Description: Standard TCP/IP port

> Given that Windows 10 prints fine to this printer, is there a way, for
> example, to get Windows to tell me what that port number is?
>

 - 
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-hardware/how-to-identify-and-change-the-printer-port/72421a30-2771-48e3-9f5a-86508cdae94b

>> I no longer have an HP Laserjet 2100 (with additional JetDirect ethernet
>> card) but I don't recall having any print or connectivity problems.
>
> You are correct it's the HP LaserJet 2100tn, which apparently means it has
> that network card for Ethernet, which has been printing from Windows for
> more than a decade (I don't remember how old it is).
>

Mine came from Freecycle & was previously used (or abused) in a school 
office.
It was a 2100 so I had to source a JetDirect card & add it myself.
Prior to that I used a parallel to ethernet cable.

> I don't have any problem whatsoever printing from Windows to that printer
> over the LAN; but have you been printing to that printer directly from
> Android?
>
> If so, _how_ did you manage to get the Android device to see the printer?

Not sure that I did. It was probably before Android became popular.
I do recall having to go the extra steps before Windows (7?) would find the 
drivers, as you posted in one of your threads & having to change the port in 
the printer properties.

-- 
Regards
wasbit

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