That "10 minute" printer IP fix took me 3 days in Austin

The old article said changing a static IP on a networked printer is a quick settings tweak. I spent 72 hours across 4 different tech support chats because the driver kept grabbing the old address from a cached profile in Windows. You need to flush DNS, reset the printer's network card, and reboot the router, which nobody mentions. Has anyone else had a simple fix balloon into a weekend project?

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nancy1546d ago

I read somewhere that Windows keeps a list of old network locations and it grabs those before it even looks at the router. That matches what you hit. Last year I helped a friend with a Brother printer and we had to delete the entire network profile from the registry before it would accept the new IP. The router reboot was the thing that finally made it stick. It's always the hidden cache stuff that eats your whole weekend.