I’m having a problem setting up a new printer on my home office network. I previously had a HPLJ 4Mv printer on this cable and when it went to the boneyard I replaced it with a CP1518ni. I plugged in the Ethernet cable and it gave me an IP address. I then went into the setup wizard and set up the printer and let it find the following driver: HP Color laser Jet CP1510 Series PCL6. I printed a test page no problem. I then sent a document to the printer and again no problems. At that point I turned off the printer and called it a day. Next day, I tried to print and it would not transmit the document to the printer or print a test page either. I went back in to see of the IP had changed and it is still the same IP. HOWEVER, I did notice something strange. The port name is the same identical number string as the printer name/IP address. I had never seen that before. I am used to seeing the port number different than the IP address. I also have a LJ 2100 setup and its port number is different than the IP number. To verify it isn’t the printer I hooked up to it using the USB connection and it prints fine BUT, after every USB print I get a page that states the following that I laid out exactly the way it prints.
GET /DevMgmt/DiscoveryTree.XML HTTP/1.1
Host: 127.0.0.1:8080
The USB hookup gave me a driver set as: HP Color LaserJet CP1518ni UPD PCL 5.
Well, I think that is all the pertinent data that is relative. I am running Windows 7 - 64bit? Do I need to delete the drivers and start over? Can anyone point me to what the corrective action might be?
Appreciate any help I can get,
Frank