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I have 7 PCs with XP. Yesterday the printer worked fine on all of them.
Today only one of them can find the printer. They are all set up the
same, connecting to a switch, which the printer is also plugged into.
They can all reach the shared internet connection. They still have the
printer listed, but I can't connect even to look at properties. If I
ping the IP address, it can't find it. When I try to reinstall it finds
no printers on the network. I could connect one of them by direct
cable, but I need to connect them all. I don't know what else to try or
look for at this point, any suggestions?

Make sure that the printer is set to be shared. The drivers also have to be
set up to be able to see the printer across your network.

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I have 7 PCs with XP. Yesterday the printer worked fine on all of them.
Today only one of them can find the printer. They are all set up the
same, connecting to a switch, which the printer is also plugged into.
They can all reach the shared internet connection. They still have the
printer listed, but I can't connect even to look at properties. If I
ping the IP address, it can't find it. When I try to reinstall it finds
no printers on the network. I could connect one of them by direct
cable, but I need to connect them all. I don't know what else to try or
look for at this point, any suggestions?