Figure since I could never find a solution and only people talking about the Gerber cable, I figure I would post my solution. Picked up an old Edge 2 for cheap to just do some chrome stuff and the whole usb to parallel thing seemed ridiculous. The guy I bought it from gave me the actual Gerber cable but after messing with a that for like 5 hours I gave up on it. So I had a couple of old print servers laying around from old junked Mutohs and decided to give it a try. Tried an SEH at first and got it to print once then things went south. This happened on our Mutoh as well so figured that one was junk. Then I tried a Netgear PS101 and with a few tweaks it works great and every time.
The biggest thing is making sure you do closed network and making all the ip addresses close together, even the router. It's set up on Win10 with Flexi12 which runs 3 other ink jets. Setting the tcp ip 4 to the desired addresses was is easy to do in the the network Ethernet window, never have to deal with the devise manager. Flexi was simple just selected the tcp option put in the address for the print server that was set in the Netgear setup. A whole lot ranting and whole bunch of reboots did the trick.
Now I just need to figure how to get rid of all the white dots in the prints and the whole crazy cartridge switching thing.
The biggest thing is making sure you do closed network and making all the ip addresses close together, even the router. It's set up on Win10 with Flexi12 which runs 3 other ink jets. Setting the tcp ip 4 to the desired addresses was is easy to do in the the network Ethernet window, never have to deal with the devise manager. Flexi was simple just selected the tcp option put in the address for the print server that was set in the Netgear setup. A whole lot ranting and whole bunch of reboots did the trick.
Now I just need to figure how to get rid of all the white dots in the prints and the whole crazy cartridge switching thing.
