Wireless Printing to Artisan 835 from Laptop?

[Frederick]

My Epson Artisan835 works fine on my wireless LAN, when I print from
my desktop computers. Now I want to print from a Dell 8500 laptop
wirelessly. I installed 'epson13776.exe' software on the laptop, but
cannot print from the laptop. The print operation runs as if working
okay, and the print queue empties properly, but nothing prints. I am
missing something!

Has anyone done this successfully? If so, can U perhaps guide this
dummy?

Thanx

Big Fred

 

[David H. Lipman]

My Epson Artisan835 works fine on my wireless LAN, when I print from
my desktop computers. Now I want to print from a Dell 8500 laptop
wirelessly. I installed 'epson13776.exe' software on the laptop, but
cannot print from the laptop. The print operation runs as if working
okay, and the print queue empties properly, but nothing prints. I am
missing something!

Has anyone done this successfully? If so, can U perhaps guide this
dummy?

The Epson drivers are standard TCP/IP software with NetBIOS over IP. Thus you can access
the memory card slot of the Artisan as a network share.

Under XP the drivers point to the IP address. Under Vista and above it should show up
under Device Manager a a "WSD Print Provider" and as a "WSD Scan Device". It also shoul
appear under networks as a NetBIOS and SSDP.

You say you have a "Dell 8500 laptop" which I presume is an Inspiron 8500 but don't say
what OS is on the Inspiron but I'll assume WinXP. In that case it should show up under
Printers as "Artisan 830(Network)". Does it ?

I successfully print from both XP and Vista to the Printer as well as scan over the
network from both computers. It also shows up under "My Network Places" on my WinXP as a
"Name on Epson". Where I renamed the "name" to CompactFlash so I see it under "My Network
Places" on my WinXP platform as a "CompactFlash on Epson".

 

[David H. Lipman]

My Epson Artisan835 works fine on my wireless LAN, when I print from
my desktop computers. Now I want to print from a Dell 8500 laptop
wirelessly. I installed 'epson13776.exe' software on the laptop, but
cannot print from the laptop. The print operation runs as if working
okay, and the print queue empties properly, but nothing prints. I am
missing something!

Has anyone done this successfully? If so, can U perhaps guide this
dummy?

Mine is also set to statically to 192.168.1.4 and I can go to http://192.168.1.4/ and see
its web page.

 

[David H. Lipman]

The Epson drivers are standard TCP/IP software with NetBIOS over IP. Thus you can
access the memory card slot of the Artisan as a network share.

Under XP the drivers point to the IP address. Under Vista and above it should show up
under Device Manager a a "WSD Print Provider" and as a "WSD Scan Device". It also shoul
appear under networks as a NetBIOS and SSDP.

You say you have a "Dell 8500 laptop" which I presume is an Inspiron 8500 but don't say
what OS is on the Inspiron but I'll assume WinXP. In that case it should show up under
Printers as "Artisan 830(Network)". Does it ?

I successfully print from both XP and Vista to the Printer as well as scan over the
network from both computers. It also shows up under "My Network Places" on my WinXP as
a "Name on Epson". Where I renamed the "name" to CompactFlash so I see it under "My
Network
Places" on my WinXP platform as a "CompactFlash on Epson".

I was not correct in my above statement "Under XP the drivers point to the IP address."

Actually when you install the drivers you are asked if it is connected directly (USB) or
over the network. When you indicate that it is a network device, the driver installer
seeks an Epson MAC address and once found and the printer is identified, a Printer Port
Provider is created as "EpsonNet Print Port".

See:
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