Few things are as aggravating as sending an important business document to your networked printer only to observe complete silence from the printer and no error ...

One of the things I have learned here is to keep everything set for DHCP on my home network. This is for simplicity and reliability while eliminating the need to muck around with static ips. But I ...

Emily Long is a freelance writer based in Salt Lake City. After graduating from Duke University, she spent several years reporting on the federal workforce for Government Executive, a publication of ...

Wireless printers can be assigned a static IP address through Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), an interface used to automatically allocate IP addresses to devices that connect to a network.

When you take into account its purchase price and all of the consumables it requires–toner or ink, paper, imaging drums, and more–you may find that a printer is one of the most expensive pieces of IT ...

Reader Chris Rose recently upgraded to Snow Leopard and faces a common issue. He writes: We just upgraded to 10.6 and I have a network HP2100TN printer that used to use Appletalk on the network to be ...

Printers. The bane of my existence. Especially wireless printers. Those buggers just hate me or something; I’m convinced of it, what with how many problems I see with them every week. Or maybe they ...

Your printer is broadcasting passwords and personal documents to everything on your Wi-Fi.

Anyone with more than one computer has good reason to consider sharing a printer over a network. No matter what kind of environment you work in—even if you don't already have a network set up—you can ...