Brother HL-5250DN Problem

[FN-GM]

Hi

At home I have had a Brother HL-5250DN laser B&W printer for a few months now shared between 4 computers it has been working perfect until the other day. I don't understand what’s going on with it! It is a network printer connected via Ethernet.

When i go into "Printers & Faxes" it says the printer is offline. I checked the printer via Internet Explorer it says "ready". At this point i can't get it work the only way to get it to work is by deleting the printer and adding it again then its fine until I reboot, then it says its offline again.

I have done the following:

Swapped Network Cable
Swapped Ports On Switch
I Can Ping The Printer When It Says Its Offline
Checked The Printer Port

Anyone Got Any Ideas?

Thanks

PS: Running Windows XP

[Midget]

If it's anything like the one I had then you just need to switch it off and on again at the switch on the printer.

[FN-GM]

nope tried that should have posted that realy

[ReverentCreature]

Hi there,

I had the same problem with two of my Magicolour printers after the school holidays. I fixed the issue by changing the printer to point to the LPT port (so I could delete the IP address port) and then recreating the printers TCP\IP port. When I recreated the port instead of using "Generic Network Port" in the list I chose a Magicolour driver.

Hope this helps.

[FN-GM]

I took your advice did as you said and im still getting the problem.

[FN-GM]

anyone else got any ideas please?

[Ric_]

If isn't just set as offline (a tick option on one of the menus when you open the print queue)?

[mrtechsystems]

In Computer Management in Services restart the print spooler wait a couple of seconds

If not reinstall the drivers

Please post let me know hpw you get on

Mr Tech

[FN-GM]

Thanks chaps none of them worked but I think I have cracked it, I have found an older driver and it appears to work so far. But I can't understand why it has only just started happening.

[danielson81]

I had a similar problem with a HP Laserjet. We had just installed 44 PCs and a PC was competeing for the IP address, despite the printer having a static IP!

All sorted now ! Quite worried it managed to happen! :?

[PEO]

Z

Do you have a copy of the printer driver you used to sort the problem. Im having same issue, glad im not the only one.

cheers

[ZeroHour]

Newer firmware?
Also have you tried resetting it completely to factory defaults?