Overview

This article provides a service technician or user a very useful way to
create a peer to peer network using only a single Ethernet cable
to access the device embedded web server (
EWS
).
This allows the user to make changes or to flash the printer with code.
This can be used in cases where a security policy will not allow 3rd parties on their network.

Solution

Connect the printer to the laptop using an
Ethernet cable
.
If it was previously connected to a wired network, perform a power-on-reset (
POR
) on the printer.
Perform any of the following procedures to acquire the
IP address
and
Subnet mask
.
Print the printer’s
Network Setup Page
report.
View the IP address and subnet mask from the printers
Network Setup Menu.
Ask the user for the IP address and Subnet mask.
If the IP address cannot be known, change the IP address through the Network Setup Menu to
169.254.1.89
with a Subnet mask of
255.255.0.0
.
Perform a power-on-reset (
POR
) on the printer if it was previously connected to a wired network.
Customer Printer IP Address:__ __ __.__ __ __.__ __ __.__ __ __
Subnet Mask: __ __ __.__ __ __.__ __ __.__ __ __
On the user's personal computer (
PC
), click
Control Panel
>
Network and Sharing Center
>
Change Adapter Settings
Right-click on Local Area Connection, and select
Properties
.
Double-click Internet Protocol Version 4 (
TCP/IPv4
).
Select Use the following IP address, and enter an
IP address
identical to the one from the printer except increase the last set of digits by 1 (i.e., 169.254.1.89 increased by
1
=
169.254.1.90
), and same
Subnet Mask
as the device (i.e.,
255.255.0.0
), then leave the
Default Gateway
blank.
Type the user printer IP address into the address bar of your browser to access the printer’s embedded web server (
EWS
).
Use the
printer's actual IP address
and
not
the IP address that was increased by
1
.