Printers are notorious for causing headaches and frustration, and this was certainly the case for me as I managed a single Windows server with 167 networked printers. It seemed like every so often, print jobs would get stuck and I would have to manually intervene by stopping the print spooler service, cleaning out the print […]
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Today was one of those days, I migrated our old print server (2012 R2) to Server 2022 and it went way to smoothly for printers. Sure enough a day later we get calls the canon ID management won’t verify. Could not verify the Department ID and PIN specified in Department ID Mgmt. Printing will be
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Our color printer started putting red dots on every print job. After inspecting all the cartridges I opened the right door assembly and noticed the ink has soaked into the roller. After 30-45min of searching I finally was able to find a name for the device along with a part number. Below are the resources
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Instructions Turn off your HP LaserJet P2015 printer. Press and hold the “Go” button located on the printer’s control panel while turning the machine back on. Release the “Go” button when the triangular “Attention” light on the control panel illuminates. The factory default settings for the printer will load once you have released the “Go”
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I recently needed to reset the password for the main account. So I called our copier guys and he told me over the phone how to get into maintenance mode. I was able to follow the steps but the beginning part took me a while to get it figured out. Never did find the easy way. Just
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Here is a list of printers I constantly run into and need the default username and password. [table id=1 /]
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So I always forget these 2 settings when setting up a new Richo Aficio MP 301 SPF on our network to support scan to email. This is also true for most all aficios. First thing I forget to do is set the senders name. Seems like every time I can’t find it since I think its poorly labeled and
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The default Username is admin and password is 1111. Solution : Login or Logout as a System Administrator or Key Operator and Access the Tools Mode To log in to the printer: Press the [Login In / Out] button on the Control Panel. The Authentication: Login Required screen will be displayed. Select the [Keyboard] button
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We have a mixed environment of XP and Windows 7. Of course this doesn’t make things any easier trying to support both operating systems. Below I’ll outline how we deployed our printers. Both our AD and Print server are Server 2008 R2 Enterprise. If you need to just deploy for 1 of the operating systems skip to
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Today I learned something interesting while updating/migrating printers from our old server (Server 2003) to our new print server ( Server 2008 R2). When HP says Universal Print Driver they mean it! In our district we have about 10-15 Dell Laser 1710/1720 printers. I was having a really tough time finding a driver that supported
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