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Title: Lexmark 5400 multifunction not prinitng with DNS323
Post by: AND on April 22, 2009, 06:22:37 AM

Firmware 1.07
Installed and configured disks (2x1TB - Raid 1)
Moved USB printer connection from Vista (working with drivers installed) to DNS323
DNS sees the printer.  Can create a new printer under Vista.
Will not print Test page - Communication error reported by Lexmark driver
Router is a WRT54G.

Tried to uninstall driver and reinstall latest available from Lexmark.

Any idea if this model is supported under this configuration?

Title: Re: Lexmark 5400 multifunction not prinitng with DNS323
Post by: fordem on April 22, 2009, 08:18:38 AM

Multifunction printers can be challenging where print servers are concerned, especially when the print servers do not provide a "back channel" to allow bi-directional communications - which the DNS-323 does not do.

How I would deal with this is to take a known working installation of the printer with a direct USB connection and edit it to point to the shared printer - go to ports and create a new local port named \\<ip-address-of-DNS-323>\lp - also check the printer properties in the driver and disable bi-directional printer support and see what happens.