If your 1320c printer has the integrated network jack (early models did not), then my advice would be to plug it right into the router and add it to your network. ALL the computers on your network will be able to print to it, provided of course, that appropriate drivers are installed on each system.

If you connect to one system via USB, then for other users to access the printer it would need to be setup as a SHARED printer AND that PC would have to remain ON for any other users on your network to be able to print to it.

The only cautionary note I have is to set your printer to a static (manual) IP address that is outside the default assignment range of your router, yet within the subnet range. For example: If your router is setup to assign addresses from 192.168.1.2 thru 192.168.1.100, then set your printer outside this range to, let's say, 192.168.1.101. This way, the IP address of the printer is locked down and remains stable for all PC's on your network.

Hi,

You don't want to assign the IP address at the router, but at the printer itself.

At first, just plug the printer into your router and let the printer pickup an IP address. After a few minutes, print the printer settings pages (press the continue button for ~3 seconds) and find out what address your printer acquired. Using that address, open IE and enter that address into the URL bar, click Go. This opens the internal web page for the printer.

At the left side, click Print Server Settings link. On the new page, click the "tab" for Print Server Settings.

Click the link TCP/IP

Set IP Address Mode to "Manually Set"

With the range you provided, you should be able to set your printer IP Address to 192.168.0.200 (or higher, .254 is max)

Referring to the printer settings page, ensure the settings for Subnet Mask and Gateway Address remain the same.

Click "Restart Printer to apply new settings" box at the bottom...... voilà.

Print another printer setting page to verify the new setting and use this IP address when you install your drivers.

Good Luck !!

p.s...... there are drivers out there for Linux...... ya just need to hunt for them.

Thank you for the very good advise! The printer is new from Dell and it has the network port on it. That was a must when I purchased it. I try to think of the future(sometimes). As far as assigning the static IP address, I have read other threads regarding this and I have seen the same issue your talking about. This will be my first time assigning one manual to the router. Are you talking about a static DHCP? My normal range for the D-Link DI-624 is 192.168.0.100 to 192.168.0.199. I have read that Entries created with IP addresses outside of this range will not take effect. Is this true?

There is also no Linux driver for this paticular printer through Dell so I guess I can't print when using Linux. Only XP/ Vista and 2000

Thanks again for your help

Just left you a PM re: linux drivers.

I have the same printer, but cannot seem to configure it via the web browser (EWS).  When i make any changes, it prompts me for a password.  I have not set one yet using username "admin" and no password simply doesnt work.  I cannot clear the memory without the password to reset the password! duh.

Any help would be extremely gratefully received.

I'm using Windows Vista fully service packed with IE browser.

Answered your other "posting".....