

You should be able to see in the printers menu what the name of the computer is as the name will be something like “Sharp MX-4140N on Server1.” You’d need to get in front of Server1 and knock this out there. The configuration will need to be done from that computer/server. *If the configuration tab is greyed out this means the printer is installed on another computer or a server. Enjoy using the full functionality of your machine.Tick the dots where the fingers are pointing, duh.Go to the Configuration tab (see * below if this is greyed out).Click Printer Properties…not properties.The print driver wasn’t configured, it is a quick fix! Follow along with the video above to take your print driver by the horns and make it do whatever you want.Ĭonfigure Sharp Print Driver – Windows OS Feel free to request a quote from our site, or read up about how we do business at people will call in after their IT folks improperly setup their Sharp printer and mention that they can’t print from tray 3, or they can’t print with staples. We provide the best service in town and we stack ’em deep and sell ’em cheap. Skelton Business Equipment is a premier and certified Sharp printer dealer in Houston, TX. Is you Sharp printer offline anymore? I think not. Make sure you have a green light flickering through the Network Interface Card (NIC), and if necessary print a NIC page to make sure it’s not on DHCP and the IP has changed to something other than what’s listed on your ports tab. If not, check the network connectivity to the Sharp itself. If you want to cancel these, go to the machine and touch Job Status to Stop/Delete the job.Īt this point the printer should become “Ready” rather than Offline. …hear the printer warming up? It’s about to print out everything you tried to print since it went offline. Stand up and clap to celebrate your man vs.Uncheck the box at the bottom that says SNMP Status Enabled.Click Configure Port (If you cannot configure the port this printer is being shared from a server and you need to make these adjustments from the server).Click the Ports tab at the top of the window (if you don’t have a ports tab you opened the wrong “Properties”).Right click on the Sharp printer, click Printer Properties.Open Printers and Faxes or Printers and Other Hardware.If your printer is called, for example, Sharp MX-5110N on SERVER, then the printer is installed on a computer called SERVER and that’s the computer you want to be in front of for the steps below. * This needs to be done from the computer that the printer is installed on. We have placed quite a few of these copiers in Houston, and we know our stuff! While the printer probably requires a bit of attention, a quick change in the port settings will get you back up and running in the meantime. Every once in a while when the Sharp printer requires maintenance it will send a signal to the surrounding network that it is offline.
