Greetings,
Posting this in the hopes someone out there may have some insight.
The organization I work at has approximately 80 Hewlett Packard printers\MFP’s. We have HP’s that range in age – some as old as 7 years and some that are brand new. Within the last month or so, we have run into a weird anomaly where five of these printers\MFP’s appear to be entering into a sleep mode, and then loose network connectivity. The printers that are giving us grief are the following:
HP LaserJet M5035 MFP (2)
HP Color LaserJet CP3505
HP LaserJet M775 Color MFP
HP LaserJet M525 MFP
HP LaserJet P3005
When one of the printers goes offline, I cannot ping it from our print server or from various PC’s. Oddly enough, I can always ping the printers from my PC, and when doing so, the printer starts communicating on the network from other devices, including the...