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Phaser 840


Setting IP parameters: PhaserLink Printer Management Software

After setting the printer's IP address by one of the methods described in this guide, you can perform the rest of the TCP/IP configuration using PhaserLink Printer Management Software, if you have a World Wide Web browser. For more information on PhaserLink software, see PhaserLink Printer Management Software.

  1. From the printer's home page, click Configuration; this displays the View and Configure Settings page.
  2. From the View and Configure Settings page, click View and Configure Interface Settings; this displays the View and Configure Interface Settings page.
  3. From the View and Configure Interface Settings page, click View and Configure TCP/IP Settings; this displays the View and Configure TCP/IP Settings page.
  4. Enter your printer's settings. If you make an error, click Restore Initial Form Values and start again.
  5. When you are finished entering the settings, enter the Validation Password (if one has been set) and click Do/Apply.
  6. The printer responds by displaying a dialog box that allows you to reset the printer. The new parameters will not take effect until the printer is reset.


Setting IP parameters: arp table entry ( address gleaning )

This method sets the printer's IP address until the next printer reset. Once you have used this method to set the printer's IP address, you can use PhaserLink Printer Management Software (see Setting IP parameters: PhaserLink Printer Management Software ) or a PostScript utility file (see Setting IP parameters: PostScript utility file (UNIX only) ) to set the address permanently.

You can enter the printer's Ethernet address and IP address in your host's arp table, then send a ping command to the printer, and the printer will take it's IP address from the ping packet.

  1. Make an entry into the host's ARP (Address Resolution Protocol) table defining the printer's IP/hardware address pair. In general, this requires a command corresponding to one of the following syntax examples:
    2. arp -s printer-name hardware-address (for BSD systems)
    or
    arp -s ether printer-name hardware-address (for System V)

    See the documentation for your host system for specifics of this command.

    NOTE
    The hardware address in the arp command example is the printer's Ethernet Address for PhaserShare Ethernet cards or the Token Ring Address for PhaserShare Token Ring cards.
  2. Execute the ping command from the host:
    3. ping printer-IP-address

Domain Name Services ( DNS)

The Phaser 840, 740, and 780 printers support Domain Name Services (DNS) through an embedded DNS stub resolver. The DNS resolver protocol communicates with one or more DNS servers to request the IP address for a given host name or the host name for a given IP address.

To use an IP host name for the printer, the system administrator must have already configured one or more DNS servers and a local DNS domain name space data base.

To set up the printer for DNS, you must supply an IP domain name and up to two DNS name server IP addresses. There are three ways to set up the printer for DNS:


Setting up the printer for DNS using PhaserLink Printer Management Software

After setting the printer's IP address by one of the methods described in this guide, you can set up the printer for DNS using PhaserLink software, if you have a World Wide Web browser. For more information on PhaserLink software, see PhaserLink Printer Management Software.

  1. From the printer's home page, click Configuration; this displays the View and Configure Settings page.
  2. From the View and Configure Settings page, click View and Configure Interface Settings; this displays the View and Configure Interface Settings page.
  3. From the View and Configure Interface Settings page, click View and Configure TCP/IP Settings; this displays the View and Configure TCP/IP Settings page.
  4. Set the Domain Name Service Resolver Enabled field Yes.
  5. Enter the following information:
    • Primary Name Server IP Address (required)
    • Second Name Server IP Address (optional)
    • IP Domain Name (required)
    • Additional Search Domain Name(s) (optional)
  6. When you are finished entering the settings, enter the Validation Password and click Do/Apply.
  7. The printer responds by displaying a dialog box that allows you to reset the printer. The new parameters will not take effect until the printer is reset.

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