HP Designjet 111 User Manual

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Introduction
 

2 Connection and software installation
Install the Windows printer driver
1.Insert the HP Designjet 111 Software and Documentation CD into your CD drive.
2.If the CD does not autorun, run the setup.exe program in the root directory of the CD.
3.Follow the instructions on the screen.
Connect using a USB cable (Windows)
USB is the preferred solution for a direct computer-to-printer connection.
1.Do not connect the computer to the printer yet. First, install the Windows printer driver: see
Install the...

Network connection methods
The HP Jetdirect print server allows you to connect the printer to a network. See The HP Jetdirect
print server on page 4 and your HP Jetdirect documentation.
There are two ways of using it to connect the printer to a network.
●Client-server configuration. In this method the printer is connected to a computer that acts as a
print server and manages the print jobs. The printer is used as a shared device.
●Direct network setup. In this method the printer is directly connected to...

10.Choose Specify printer by address.
11.Enter the printers IP address in the applicable text box and click Next.
12.Wait until the configuration program analyzes the printer and the network. The program detects
the network settings and suggests the settings to be applied for the printers configuration.
Normally, it is not necessary to change any of these settings, so click Next.
13.Follow the process in the HP Designjet 111 Software and Documentation CD until the
installation is finished.
Manual IP...

Share the printer
In order to be able to perform a client installation, the printer must be shared in the computer that will
act as a print server.
1.Select Start > Settings > Printers.
2.Right-click the printer you want to share and select Properties.
3.Go to the Sharing tab.
4.Select Shared as and select the sharing name of the device.
5.If the computers you are going to connect as clients have different Windows versions, you may
need to install additional drivers for these other operating systems. In...

5.In the list of printers that appears, select the entry that uses the connection type USB, and click
Continue.
6.The following screen displays information about your printers installation, where the name of the
printer can be modified. Make any changes you wish to make, and click Continue.
7.Your printer is now connected. In the Printer Queue Created screen, click Quit to exit, or Create
New Queue if you want to connect another printer.
8.When the HP Printer Setup Assistant has finished, you can remove...

Connect to a network using TCP/IP (Mac OS)
Before you begin, check that the following statements are true.
●The printer is set up and turned on.
●The Ethernet hub or router is on and functioning properly.
●All computers on the network are on and connected to the network.
●The printer is connected to the Ethernet network.
To connect your printer, follow these steps.
1.Print your HP Designjet printer information pages by pressing the OK key (upper right key on the
front panel) four times while holding down...

You may find that sharing your directly connected printer with other users will slow down your
computer unacceptably.
TIP:The best way to share the printer over a network is to connect the printer not to any computer,
but to the network.
Change the IP address of the HP Jetdirect print server
You may need to do this if you are moving the printer from one LAN subnet to another, and need to
change the IP address because of a conflict.
NOTE:If you are using the DHCP protocol, you do not need this procedure,...

Mac OS
If you are using a Jetdirect card that already has an IP address, skip to step 
13.
If you are using a Jetdirect card that has an IP address of 192.0.0.192, begin at step 1.
1.Connect the Jetdirect card and computer to the same physical LAN. Print a configuration page
from Jetdirect to verify that the IP address is 192.0.0.192.
2.Go to the Dock menu on your desktop and double-click the System Preferences icon. Go to the
Network Preferences pane.
3.Select Location from the pull-down menu. Make a...

Change the network parameters
Once the Jetdirect card has a valid IP address, changing the rest of the network parameters (or the IP
address itself, if necessary) is very easy. You need only connect to the HP Jetdirect cards embedded
Web server and configure the information in the Networking tab of the Web page. To connect to the
cards embedded Web server, start your Web browser and, in the browsers address field, enter the
IP address of the printer.
Here you can change the parameters of each of the...