This is going to be my first hardware post. We’ll start simple - I do have a copy of The Art of Electronics and a welder, so there’s a chance I might post something meaningful one day.
I was about to throw my MP460 Canon printer (80$) out of the window (8th floor, 10$ a flight of stairs). I was trying to setup a wireless print server and finally got that working, when the printer came back with an obscure 5100 error. I tried everything, including shaking it violently. What worked was a reset, and this page explains how.
- Turn off the printer
- Hold the Resume Button (red circle in the triangle), add a printer (click “Power”) an indicator light green.
- Hold the Power Button, release the Resume Button.
- Not releasing the Power Button, double click “Resume” and release Both Buttons.
- Click “Resume” for Four times
- Once you click “Power”, to confirm the selected action (reset counter absorber). To disable the printer “Power” button to click again.
On the wireless front, I got a Linksys WPS54G. None of the wizards worked, go figure. I ended up being able to connect to the printer’s HTTP configuration interface, but couldn’t configure it on Vista. It wasn’t too hard to configure manually with some help.
- Add the appropriate printer from Control Panel, Printers, Add Printer
- Select Local Printer and select Create New Port, Standard TCP/IP Port
- Device Type, TCP/IP Device.
- HostName or IPAddress should be the IP Address of the Print Server Device. I configured it with a static IP.
- After nothing is detected choose Custom, Settings
- Select LPR, set Queue Name to L2 for USB printer.
- Turn on LPR Byte Counting Enabled.
- Select the printer, install the driver.
Easy? Ahem.