I have 21 Laserjet 600 M602 printers deployed in labs around our university campus. About 1/2 of these printers will stop responding to pings (and any other network traffic) after a day or two. The others seem to stay alive.
A powercycle of the printer will bring it back, but the users in the labs don't realize that, and it's a problem. The printer still says "ready", and appears to be alive, but isn't reachable via the network interface.
The only obvious thing about the failing printers is that they were purchased / manufactured more recently than the others.
Any ideas?
Thanks - Dan Schwartz, Lehigh University
