Apple 12/600PS manual Can’t ping the printer by IP name or IP address

Sometimes printing the first page takes longer than I expect.

The printer automatically goes into an energy-saving mode after it’s been idle for a while. When you print while it’s in this mode, the printer takes about three minutes to warm up before it can print the first page.

The printer administrator can adjust this feature by using the Apple Printer Utility on a Macintosh computer (see Chapter 2) or the Apple Printer Utility for Windows on a Windows computer (see Chapter 3).

I can’t ping the printer by IP name or IP address.

Follow these steps:

1.Try to ping yourself or another host. If this ping fails, your IP software is not running, or your network is down.

2.Turn the printer off and then back on. This sometimes fixes the problem itself, and it also causes the startup page to print. Use the startup page to verify the printer’s IP address.

3.Verify that the IP address on the configuration page is identical to the IP address in the /etc/hosts file.

4.Check the network cabling to make sure the printer is physically connected to the network.

5.Make sure that the IP address is not a duplicate of one already in use on the network.

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