Panasonic Network Printer Holding IP Address

[Kjonnnn]

I have a network printer that will not take a new IP address.

When we initially installed it, it got an IP address from our DHCP. But, according to the manual, if the IP addresses have unlimited leases (which ours do), the printer disables DHCP once it gets an address.

Well, now we've changed our "network" and have a different scope of IP addresses, but this printer will not release the old IP address and get a new IP address. Since it won't do this, there is no way for me to communicate with the printer through the software that came with it. I've pressed and held the printer reset button, and even left the printer unplugged for two days. It still holds on to the old IP address. Anyone know any tricks. It is a Panasonic 7110 Laser, and the Panasonic website is useless.

 

[Frank4d]

The manual

http://www.panasonic.co.jp/pcc/products/en/printer/manual/p7105/english/network.pdf

describes on page 119 of 127 how to set the printer back to the factory default state. Would this help? Let us know.

 

[Kjonnnn]

Thanks. But that was the one of the first things I tried. We were still running two networks 10.#.#.# and 159.#.#.# at the time.

The old network is the 10s, and the new is the 159s.

I even took the printer and connected it to the last hub still connected to the 10s. I tried to get it to release the number thru the remote panel that came with the printer software. I could then communicate with it, and even print. But it wasnt giving up that IP address.

So what I ended up doing was connecting the printer to someone's computer via parallel, and it works fine now. But even now according to the config page, it is still holding on to that 10s ip address. Weirdest thing.