{"id":1002845,"date":"2009-11-24T07:00:40","date_gmt":"2009-11-24T12:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/?p=1002845"},"modified":"2009-11-24T07:00:40","modified_gmt":"2009-11-24T12:00:40","slug":"windows-vista-network-printer-offline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/windows\/2009\/11\/24\/windows-vista-network-printer-offline\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows Vista Network Printer Offline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a troubleshooting tips it took me a few days to figure out. If Windows Vista reports your network printer as off-line and won&#8217;t print anything, but the printer will print just fine from other computers on the network, especially Macs, check to see if the printer picked up a new IP address from the DHCP server. Macs are smart enough to still recognize and find the printer even when its IP address has changed. Windows Vista PCs aren&#8217;t, and get seriously confused when a printer moves from one IP to another.<\/p>\n<p>If this is indeed what happened, you&#8217;ll need to delete the old printer from the printer control panel and add the printer as if it&#8217;s a completely new printer. I don&#8217;t happen to know how to retrieve or reassign any jobs still pending for the off-line printer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a troubleshooting tips it took me a few days to figure out. If Windows Vista reports your network printer as off-line and won&#8217;t print anything, but the printer will print just fine from other computers on the network, especially Macs, check to see if the printer picked up a new IP address from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1002845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1002845"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1002847,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002845\/revisions\/1002847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1002845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1002845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1002845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}