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Dell 5100cn network printing
Authored by: jarnis on May 05, '05 11:18:34PM

Couldn't get a Dell 5100cn color laser printer to print from Mac OS X machines on the network. Kept getting the same "printer is busy" error on port 631 that you had with the Samsung. The printer LCD panel says it is on port 9100, but I don't know enough about networking for that information to be helpful.

I've read that some other Mac users have had no trouble printing to this printer over a network, and my XP PCs were working fine.

While searching for something else, I happened to come across your solution regarding the "printer busy" problem: choosing "Socket HP/Jet Direct" instead of "Internet Printing Protocol" under "IP Printing" in the Printer Setup Utility.

I tried the same thing and Wahla! The new setup worked perfectly (and reported that it was connecting to the printer on port 9100). I've installed the driver to three other Mac OS X machines the same way and all of them work perfectly now.

My Setup: A DSL modem connected to the WLAN port on a Netgear MR814v2 wireless router. Several PCs and the printer are connected with wires through a multi-port switch and into an ethernet port on the MR814. The Macs are all connected wirelessly. File sharing works between all computers and now we can all print to the Dell printer.

- Arnis Pape



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Dell 5100cn network printing
Authored by: tharwood on Apr 23, '06 10:21:28AM

As mentioned in the earlier post, switching from IPP to HP/Socket mode with the same IP address for the printer corrects the problems encountered with the Samsung CLP-500 printer. I am running it through a D-link 524 router with a direct ethernet connection from the router to the printer. The Samsung CLP-500 driver for Mac on the Samsung.com website does work this way.
Tim



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