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							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 Windows printer driver on page 6.
2.When asked how the printer is connected, choose Connected directly to this computer.
3.Choose USB and click Next.
4.Choose your printer model and click Next.
5.When prompted to do so, connect your computer to the printer, using a USB cable. Ensure that
the printer is switched on. When the printer software has detected the printer, the installation
process will be completed automatically.
Connect using a parallel cable (Windows)
Use the parallel port only if your system does not support USB. A parallel connection is slower than
USB and restricts the functionality available: in particular, not all functions of HP Designjet System
Maintenance will be available.
1.Turn off both printer and computer before connecting them via the parallel port, to avoid
damaging your equipment.
2.Connect the parallel cable from your computer to the printer.
NOTE:The cable must be IEEE 1284 compliant.
3.Turn on the computer and the printer.
4.Install the Windows printer driver: see 
Install the Windows printer driver on page 6. If the Add
New Hardware Wizard appears on your screen, click Cancel.
5.When asked how the printer is connected, choose Connected directly to this computer.
6.Choose Parallel cable and your parallel port number, and click Next.
7.Choose your printer model and click Next.
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							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 the network and every
computer prints directly to it and manages its own print jobs. This type of connection method is
equivalent to a direct connection with a parallel or USB cable. The only difference is that instead
of having a direct physical link, the link is logical and it is established through the network.
Configure a direct network connection (Windows)
In order to set up a direct network connection, you must configure the IP address of the HP Jetdirect
print server. There are two cases, depending on the kind of IP address configuration on your network.
Follow only the steps that apply to your network architecture.
Automatic IP address configuration
In this case, once the network cable is connected and the printer is powered up, the Jetdirect card
automatically takes an IP address. You need to get this value and perform the following steps to
configure the printer in the network.
1.Print the printers information pages, by pressing the OK key four times while holding the Power
key, then releasing the Power key.
2.Identify the value of the IP address in the TCP/IP section of the first page (I/O page).
NOTE:If the printers IP address is shown as 0.0.0.0, this is an error. Wait five minutes, then
print the information pages again. If the IP address remains 0.0.0.0, reset the Jetdirect card, as
follows: on the printers front panel, hold down the Power key while pressing the Cancel key
three times and then the OK key once. Then interrupt the power supply to the printer, by pulling
out the power plug and then plugging it back in again.
3.Insert the HP Designjet 111 Software and Documentation CD into your computer.
4.Select your printer series (HP Designjet 111).
5.Choose Install.
6.Read the information in the Welcome dialog, and read and accept the licence agreement.
7.Read the firewall notice and mark the check box to continue installation without network
connection, or simply click Next to continue with printer discovery.
8.The installer tries to find the printer automatically. If it is successful, select your printer and click
Next to complete the installation. Otherwise, continue with the following steps.
9.Choose Connected to the network.
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							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 address configuration
In this case, there is no IP address at the moment of starting the installation. The installation process
will consist of detecting the printer, configuring its IP address and installing the driver with these
settings. Perform the following steps.
1.Print the printers information pages, by pressing the OK key four times while holding the Power
key, then releasing the Power key.
2.Identify the value of the hardware (HW) address in the first page (I/O page).
3.Insert the HP Designjet 111 Software and Documentation CD into your computer.
4.Select your printer series (HP Designjet 111).
5.Choose Install.
6.Read the information in the Welcome dialog, and read and accept the license agreement.
7.Read the firewall notice and mark the check box to continue installation without network
connection, or simply click Next to continue with printer discovery.
8.The installer tries to find the printer automatically. If it is successful, select your printer and click
Next to complete the installation. Otherwise, continue with the following steps.
9.Choose Connected to the network.
10.Choose Specify printer by address.
11.Enter the printers hardware address in the applicable text box and click Next.
NOTE:Hardware addresses are seen only at one side of a gateway, so make sure there is no
gateway between your computer and the printer. In practice, this means the computer and the
printer should be on the same subnet.
12.The program analyzes the network and the printer. As there are no TCP/IP parameters
configured, the program asks you to enter the IP address, the subnet mask and the gateway.
Enter these values according to your network configuration. Take care, when choosing the IP
address and the subnet mask, that you select values that will not create conflicts with the current
network devices. It is recommended that you get these values from your network administrator.
13.At the end of the installation, your driver is configured to work with your printer and your printer
has a valid IP address. In order to see this IP address, you can print the information pages again
and check the I/O page.
Configure a client-server connection (Windows)
If you have the printer directly connected to a computer (using USB, parallel or direct network setup)
and shared, you can use the computer to which the printer is attached as a print server.
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							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 order to do so, click
Additional drivers and follow the screen instructions.
Install the Mac OS printer driver
1.Insert the HP Designjet 111 Software and Documentation CD into your CD drive.
2.In Finder, navigate to the CD. You will see the Mac OS X HP Designjet Installer icon.
3.Double-click the icon to launch the installer.
4.The installer takes you through various steps until you reach the main install dialog box. You
have the following three options.
●Easy Install: we recommend that you choose this option, which will install all components.
●Custom Install: you can choose the component you want to install (the driver, the System
Maintenance utility, or both) using the check boxes.
5.Click Install.
6.The HP Printer Setup Assistant is displayed. Follow the instructions on the screen until the
installation is complete.
If you want to delete the print queue at some later time, follow these instructions.
●Under Mac OS X 10.4, 10.5 or 10.6: from the system preferences, select the Printing pane of
the Print & Fax dialog. Select the name of the printer and click the – button.
●Under Mac OS X 10.4: from the Print Setup utility, select the name of the printer and click the
Delete icon.
NOTE:Under Mac OS X 10.4, both methods are available.
Connect using a USB cable (Mac OS)
1.Install the Mac OS printer driver: see Install the Mac OS printer driver on page 9.
2.When the driver has been installed, the HP Printer Setup Assistant starts automatically, to set up
a connection to your printer.
3.Make sure that the printer is turned on and connected to the computer with a certified USB
cable.
NOTE:The use of non-certified USB cables can lead to connectivity problems. Only cables
certified by the USB Implementors Forum (
http://www.usb.org/) should be used with this printer.
4.In the HP Printer Setup Assistant, click Continue.
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							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 the CD from the CD drive.
If the printer driver is already installed, the HP Printer Setup Assistant can be run at any time from the
CD.
Connect to a network using Bonjour (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 the Power key, then releasing the Power key. Note
the hardware address on the first page.
2.Install the Mac OS printer driver: see 
Install the Mac OS printer driver on page 9.
3.When the driver has been installed, the HP Printer Setup Assistant starts automatically, to set up
a connection to your printer. Follow the instructions on your screen.
4.When you reach the Select Printer screen, look for your printers hardware address (which you
noted in step 1) in the Printer Name column.
●If you find the right printer name, scroll sideways to see the Connection Type column, and
check that it shows Bonjour/Rendezvous. Then highlight that line. Otherwise, continue
searching further down the list.
●If you cannot find your printer name with a Bonjour/Rendezvous connection type, check
the box My printer is not in the list.
Click Continue.
5.Continue following the instructions on the screen. When you reach the Printer Queue Created
screen, click Quit to exit, or Create New Queue if you want to connect another printer to the
network.
6.When the HP Printer Setup Assistant has finished, you can remove the CD from the CD drive.
If the printer driver is already installed, the HP Printer Setup Assistant can be run at any time from the
CD.
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							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 the Power key, then releasing the Power key. Note
the URL of the printer.
2.Install the Mac OS printer driver: see 
Install the Mac OS printer driver on page 9.
3.When the driver has been installed, the HP Printer Setup Assistant starts automatically, to set up
a connection to your printer. Follow the instructions on your screen.
4.When you reach the Select Printer screen, look for your printers URL (which you noted in step
1) in the Printer Name column.
●If you find the right printer name, scroll sideways to see the Connection Type column, and
check that it shows IP Printing. Then highlight that line. Otherwise, continue searching
further down the list.
●If you cannot find your printer name with an IP Printing connection type, check the box My
printer is not in the list.
Click Continue.
5.Continue following the instructions on the screen. When you reach the Printer Queue Created
screen, click Quit to exit, or Create New Queue if you want to connect another printer to the
network.
6.When the HP Printer Setup Assistant has finished, you can remove the CD from the CD drive.
If the printer driver is already installed, the HP Printer Setup Assistant can be run at any time from the
CD.
Share a printer (Mac OS)
If your computer is connected to a network, you can make your directly connected printer available to
other computers on the same network.
1.Double-click the System Preferences icon on the Dock menu bar on your desktop.
2.Under Mac OS X 10.4, enable printer sharing by going to Sharing > Services > Printer
Sharing.
Under later versions of Mac OS X, go to Sharing, select Printer Sharing, and then check the
printer(s) that you want to share.
3.Your printer now automatically appears in the list of shared printers displayed by any other
computer running Mac OS and connected to your local network.
Any other people wishing to share your printer must install the printer software on their own
computers. They will be able to send print jobs, but will not be able to receive information from the
printer.
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							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, because the addresses
are assigned automatically.
NOTE:This procedure will not work if the print server is not correctly configured, either because of
an error or because it is a brand new card.
The correct procedure depends on your operating system.
First, print the configuration pages of the HP Jetdirect print server, in the following way.
1.Press and hold down the Power key (the bottom key on the front panel).
2.Press the OK key (the upper right key on the front panel) four times while the Power key is
pressed.
3.Release the Power key. The printer prints the configuration pages.
Look for the TCP/IP area in the printed configuration pages, which contains the current IP address of
the HP Jetdirect print server, in the format nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn (where each nnn is a number between 0
and 255).
Windows
If you are using a Jetdirect card that already has an IP address, skip to step 
7.
If you are using a Jetdirect card that has an IP address of 192.0.0.192, begin at step 1.
1.At your computer, click Start > Control Panel > Network Connections.
2.Right-click Local Area Connection and select Properties.
3.Select Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) and click Properties.
4.Select Use the following IP address.
5.Change the IP address to 192.0.0.193.
6.Change the subnet mask to 255.255.255.0. Leave the other fields empty. Click OK to close the
menus.
7.Open a Web browser and type the IP address of your printer.
8.Click the Networking button.
9.Select TCP/IP from the menu at the top of the page and then select Manual from the IP
Configuration Method pull-down list.
10.Enter the IP address and subnet mask in the appropriate fields. Click the Apply button.
11.If your Jetdirect card previously had an IP address of 192.0.0.192, open the Control Panels
Network Connections and change the TCP/IP configuration back to its original configuration.
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							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 note of the location that appears and then
select New Location.
4.Provide a name, such as hpsetup.
5.From the Show... list, select Network Port Configurations.
6.In the Network Port Configurations dialog box, disable all ports that you are not using. For
example, if you are using a built-in Ethernet connection, then only this item should be checked.
Click Apply.
7.From the Show... list, select the available port.
8.Go to the TCP/IP tab. In the Configure pull-down list, select Manually.
9.Change the IP address. For example, change it to 192.0.0.193.
10.Change the subnet mask to 255.255.255.0. Leave the Router field empty.
11.In the Proxies tab, make sure that Proxies is set to None.
12.Click Apply Now and close the System Preferences dialog box.
13.Open a Web browser and type the IP address of your printer.
14.Click the Networking button.
15.Select TCP/IP from the menu at the top of the page and then select Manual from the IP
Configuration Method pull-down list.
16.Enter the IP address and subnet mask in the appropriate fields. Click the Apply button.
17.If your Jetdirect card previously had an IP address of 192.0.0.192, go to the Dock menu on your
desktop and double-click the System Preferences icon. Set the Location field back to the
original location that you noted in step 
3.
Get the current network configuration information
While holding the printers Power key down, press the OK key (upper right key) four times. Three
pages with information about the printer and its peripherals will be printed. If an HP Jetdirect print
server is connected to the printer, the first page will contain information about the print server
settings.
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							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 supported network protocols or, for example,
view network statistics or set an administrator password. In the Home tab, among other information,
you can see the device to which the Jetdirect card is connected and the hardware address.
If you need to change the IP parameters, the first step must always be to change the IP configuration
method from BOOTP or DHCP to Manual.
If the screen you see is not in your preferred language, click Select Language on the left-hand side
of the page.
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