Comment by jlgaddis
10 years ago
I learned years ago to always assign IP addresses to printers via DHCP but to set up reservations for them so that the IP doesn't change. Of course, this was at the time that configuring an IP address manually on a printer involved a two-line LCD screen (if you were lucky) and clicking buttons on the front to increment each octet of the IP address by one each time you clicked.
Re-addressing a couple hundred printers was not fun when each of them was configured manually via the front panel.
> clicking buttons on the front to increment each octet of the IP address by one each time you clicked.
That is exactly how, just over a week ago, I gave that brand new printer its Wi-Fi password: moving a cursor and incrementing through a character set.
Just like naming the presets on a Yamaha audio effects processor I bought in 1989.