I went through this recently. You need to get one of those USB to Centronics or parallel port cords in order for the computer to see the printer. Forget the jet direct card.
JB Sent from my iPhone using my thumbs w/out a spellchecker On Nov 17, 2011, at 3:05 PM, David SMCM <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear collective wisdom: > > I only just updated my Mac to Snow Leopard (10.6). I was a bit surprised to > discover that my trusty and wonderful HP 5000 wasn't automatically found. > > I know many of you are HP 5000 users. > > I have a JetDirect card installed (making this, in essence, an HP 5000n), and > am connecting via the Ethernet port. I tried various solutions on the net, > but have repeatedly failed to get the system to find the printer. I know the > way to do this is via the JetDirect setting in the IP tab of the printer > setup. > > I think the problem, though, is that the printer thinks its IP number is > 0.0.0.0. I can't get that to be anything else... > > If anyone knows what to do, please help me!! I want my lovely printer to work > again!!! > > David Froom > > > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
