How can you get the IP address of a PRINTER that in on a network?

Question

If you have a computer and printer that are on a network. The printer is connected to the computer. Both are in the same domain. There are many printers of the same name. How would you get the specific IP address of the printer in question that is attached to the computer?

Answer 1

The printer is shared off the PC and is not a true network printer. It does not have a static IP address unless it is directly attached to the Lan using a printer server or is network ready i.e has an internal network card. Go the the PC right click on the printer and then properties. Look under "sharing" this will give you the share name.

Answer 2

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How can you get the IP address of a PRINTER that in on a network?
If you have a computer and printer that are on a network. The printer is connected to the computer. Both are in the same domain. There are many printers of the same name. How would you get the specific IP address of the printer in question that is attached to the computer?

Answer 3

if you are connecting the printer directly to the router than yes they will have there own ip address. if you are using it as a shared network printer than no.

Answer 4

If your printer is connected to the computer, then the IP address of the printer is the IP address of the computer.

Reason being, it's not a seperate node on your network, it is just a piece of shared hardware.

Answer 5

If you have access to the printer. work your way through the menu to the IO Menu. There may be a sub menu called IP/IPX in there you will find the IP address, Sub Net Mask and Default Gateway. Each printer on the network should have its own unique name as these are used by the Hosts File to resolve name to IP. If you look at the properties of the "Printer" on your computer you should be able to find the unique name. Then if you Click on and in Windows you should get a black window that runs a sort of DOS look-a-like. Type in; ping PRINTERNAME and it should give you the IP. Where PRINTERNAME is the name of your printer.

ping 127.0.0.1 is a loopback ping for checking your NIC

I've just checked that with one I fixed earlier and it works

Answer 6

Connections to network print devices are typically displayed locally as on - eg:

Printer1 on Printserver1

Alternatively, you can think of it as an UNC Path thus:

\\Printserver\Printer1

Either way, if a connection to a network printer is mapped on your PC, you can ascertain the IP address by pinging the printer sharename:

c:\>ping Printer1

Answer 7

to the best of my knowledge the printer will not have a unique ip address if it is connected to a computer, it should be accessed via the ip address of the pc it is connected to UNLESS the pc the printer is connected to is a print server.

Answer 8

If you know the name of the printer (according to Windows, such as "PRN001" or maybe simply "My Printer Make"), then you can find out the address of it very much like other computers on the network.

To view the IP address of a machine connected to the network, click on Start, Programs and the Command Prompt, or you can click Start, Run, then type "cmd" and Enter.
This will bring up a black box with grey writing. Don't be alarmed by this. Simply type in "Ping [name]" and Enter, where [name] is the name of the machine (or printer), and if it includes spaces, must be placed in speech marks. So for example, "Ping PRN001" or "Ping "My Printer Make" ".

When you press enter, it will say "Pinging [name] (xx.xx.xx.xx)" where the xx's are the IP address.

Sounds long winded, but it's actually one of the quicker ways to find it...

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Answer 10

http://127.0.0.1 is the default local connections I.P address...

Try going to Start > Run > type cmd.exe > type ipconfig

It should list all I.P containing devices...if it's not there, it doesn't have it's own I.P address and it uses the I.P address of the computer you're connected to.

Hope this helps :-)