Hey guys, not sure whether to put this in computer discussion or networking but I think it fits here best.
I have an old Konica Minolta 2430dl color printer that is super old but still works really well. It has very high capacity toner drums which is really nice. It used to connect to the network but it got hit by lightning and blew the ethernet card out of it. Since then (at least 6 years ago) I've been using it in conjunction with a USR5461 router with a usb print host which works well. Up until Windows 10 updated.
It now prints pages too far up or too far down on the paper so that some of the image is cropped off and sometimes even twists the image so that it looks like it's sliding off the page. However, sometimes it will print perfect. It doesn't seem to matter what program or print settings I use.
When I originally set it up with Windows 10 I couldn't get it connecting at all. I'd go through the TCP/IP setup wizards but it would never connect. Finally I just gave up. After not touching it for months I ended up accidentally sending a print job to it and it printed just fine. So basically I have no idea how I ever got it working the first time.
Now since Windows has butchered my OS with their new update, one of the issues was all my printers were deleted. I went through the TCP/IP wizards and couldn't get it to work. I ended up not choosing the TCP/IP option and just typing the address into the "printer name" networked printer option in the add printer wizard which allowed me to print but with these strange intermittent issues.
I did some searching and some results said the issue might have something to do with the internet port being used to print on my computer. I think this might be the right path because now when I go to printers-my_printer-printer properties-ports, it shows up as using an "internet port" instead of the previous TPC/IP port. However, I have no idea what any of this means.
Hopefully someone has some ideas. Thanks
I have an old Konica Minolta 2430dl color printer that is super old but still works really well. It has very high capacity toner drums which is really nice. It used to connect to the network but it got hit by lightning and blew the ethernet card out of it. Since then (at least 6 years ago) I've been using it in conjunction with a USR5461 router with a usb print host which works well. Up until Windows 10 updated.
It now prints pages too far up or too far down on the paper so that some of the image is cropped off and sometimes even twists the image so that it looks like it's sliding off the page. However, sometimes it will print perfect. It doesn't seem to matter what program or print settings I use.
When I originally set it up with Windows 10 I couldn't get it connecting at all. I'd go through the TCP/IP setup wizards but it would never connect. Finally I just gave up. After not touching it for months I ended up accidentally sending a print job to it and it printed just fine. So basically I have no idea how I ever got it working the first time.
Now since Windows has butchered my OS with their new update, one of the issues was all my printers were deleted. I went through the TCP/IP wizards and couldn't get it to work. I ended up not choosing the TCP/IP option and just typing the address into the "printer name" networked printer option in the add printer wizard which allowed me to print but with these strange intermittent issues.
I did some searching and some results said the issue might have something to do with the internet port being used to print on my computer. I think this might be the right path because now when I go to printers-my_printer-printer properties-ports, it shows up as using an "internet port" instead of the previous TPC/IP port. However, I have no idea what any of this means.
Hopefully someone has some ideas. Thanks
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