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IP on your network, then you must configure the IP Address Allocation setting to static.
If using static allocation mode, three additional settings must also be configured: Static IP Address, Static IP Address Mask, and
Static IP Gateway. These settings will all depend on how the network is currently configured, and as such, cannot be
enumerated here. Contact your network administrator for more information about configuring a static IP address for your
network.
8.4.3 802.11b Network Identification Name
In order to provide a means of identification on the wireless network, a setting is available to assign a name or other
personalized string of up to 15 characters in length. This will allow you to refer to printers uniquely by name on the network. The
printer provides a default name of "OM7212".
If two or more printers, having the same assigned network name (whether by using the default setting or having similar name
assignments, as above), are active at the same time on the same network, additional name modification steps are taken to
ensure a unique name to each. For every printer with the same name that joins the network after the first, an additional
numerical suffix is added to the name. For example, using the default name "OM7212": the first printer joining the network will
use the name "OM7212"; the second will have its name appended to "OM7212-2"; the third, "OM7212-3", etc.
Because this name modification technique is dynamic in nature, the resulting network name that a printer ends up using can
vary based on the presence or absence of other like-named printers, every time the printer joins the network. Setting unique
names for each printer is therefore recommended if using more than a single printer on the same network.
8.4.4 Name Resolution Issues (Attention: Network Administrators)
There are two options available when it comes to name resolution with OmniPrint printers. The first, and probably most widely
used, is broadcast name resolution by way of NetBIOS over TCP/IP (NBT), courtesy of its Name Management Protocol (NMP).
Smaller Windows-based networks without a local DNS server will use this option for both static and dynamic IP address
allocation modes. This mode is more flexible than using the DNS solution (described below), as it requires no additional network
configuration, but the broadcast mechanism limits the scope of the printer to a single network subnet.
The second option requires a local DNS server, and works best with the static IP address allocation mode, but can be made to
work with Dynamic-DNS, if a DHCP server-side update mechanism is available – the printer cannot do its own Dynamic-DNS
update. In this case, a network administrator needs to configure the DNS server to provide a valid name-to-IP mapping for the
intended printers. Note that this mode is less flexible than the first option, but allows the printer to be used in a larger-scaled
network.
This configuration is entirely client (and DNS server)-specific, as the printer has no need for name resolution itself; the client
machines are the ones who need to resolve the printer's name. For Windows, the determining factors are whether or not the
client machine uses a DNS server to do name resolution, and then whether the DNS server has an entry to resolve the specified
printer's name. If these are both true, then DNS name resolution will be used. If either of these are not true, then the client
Windows machine will resort to the broadcast resolution method.
Other operating systems may require the DNS method to be used, as they may not have the capability to do broadcast name
resolution.
Note: NetBIOS name server (NBNS; WINS in Windows) support currently does not exist in OmniPrint printers. Windows is
always able to use broadcast resolution as a lowest common denominator, and the presence of a NBNS/WINS server is never
guaranteed.
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