On 2018-07-08, at 12:05 PM, Macs R We <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> On Jul 8, 2018, at 11:48 AM, David Schwartz <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> On Jul 7, 2018, at 9:53 PM, Michael <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> ... plugged into my router, showing up as a Bonjour network printer
>> 
>> When connected via Ethernet does the printer have an IP address on your 
>> subnet?
>> 
>> If so, instead of selecting from the list of discovered printers, try 
>> setting up as IP with either LPD or IPP and see if the behavior is 
>> different.  
>
> This is good advice.
> 
> I've had the experience of having a printer that was cabled to my indoor 
> network visible only to other cabled machines, and when it was reconfigured 
> to be wireless, was visible only to other wireless machines.  What caused it 
> was the inability of Bonjour to traverse a bridge. (Bonjour's TTL is 1, and 
> cannot be bumped up.) I reconfigured my internal network and gave my printer 
> a constant IP address (handed out by my router) instead of depending on 
> Bonjour to do it all, and the problem went away.

Printer is USB only.

The router in question has a USB port, and support for network printing. It 
exposes the printer to the network as Bonjour.

I have no idea how to give an IP address to a USB printer, nor any idea how 
Bonjour works internally (other than that it is supposed to hide the concern 
about where on a network something is).

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