Wednesday, August 24, 2016

How to restart your printer remotely

first of all, you need to prepare a reboot file:

%-12345X@PJL COMMENT
@PJL DMINFO ASCIIHEX="040006020501010301040105"
%-12345X


Copy this to a notepad and save it as: reboot.txt (actually, you can named it anything you want...tehee!)

Now, to make a connection using CMD command to the printer.

On CMD, type the path where the reboot.txt is. Since i put mine at desktop, it will looked like this:

c:\user\unit01\cd desktop
c:\user\unit01\desktop

then, type ftp. It will be looked like this one:

c:\user\unit01\cd desktop
c:\user\unit01\desktop
c:\user\unit01\desktop\ftp
ftp>

type open 192.168.*.*, where this is the IP of your printer. afterwards, it will be looking for your password:

c:\user\unit01\desktop\ftp
ftp>open 192.168.*.*

hit enter if you didn't have any password, until the ftp> appeared again. and lastly type:

 ftp> put c:\user\unit01\desktop\reboot.txt

hit enter and wait for the ftp> to show again. notice the printer that it will restart by itself.

type the word "bye" to exit from the ftp mode.

...and that's how to restart the printer remotely.

I tested it to our office printer (HP Laserjet 4315dtn) and it works like magic.


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