Professional Print and Layout and PRO-1000 WIFI issues

[Proclivis]

I used the Wifi Standard Setup on my PRO-1000, such that the router sees its Mac address and assigns an IP 10.0.1.72 and I can ping it from my Mac Pro and get a response. Then from Professional Print and Layout I search by IP4 and enter the IP and it cannot see the printer. The router is a Time Capsule. The Mac is running Sequoia and PPL is 1.5.0.

Since the ping works, and the router shows that the Mac address matches the IP, PPL just cannot see the printer.

Is there some other way that Standard Setup required for this to work or are there known issues with PPL?

Note, I know their is air print, but I am trying to print directly so that it does not go through a driver and the macOS can't interfere with printing.

[Patrick]

Hi Proclivis,

I'm not sure what you mean by "I know their is air print, but I am trying to print directly so that it does not go through a driver".  The driver must be installed in order to print using Professional Print & Layout.  Also, please note, the latest version of Professional Print & Layout for Mac is 1.6.0.  The driver is available here:

imagePROGRAF PRO-1000 Support > Downloads

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[Proclivis]

Let me start with its failure to work. I setup IP based printing on another mac, the copied the tree of files under Library/… to the nonworking mac and got it to work. 

I do see that in the list of printers is both one for USB and one for IP. I assume that in PPL the printer choice is connected to the list of printers.

Now, I was told something that ordinary logic would suggest is not true, but if true would be of interest. It is that when printing with IP, PPL applies the ICC and sends data directly to the printer by network, or the driver bypasses the macos color management layers and forwards data to the network.

Given that apple keeps changing color management, if what I was told is true, it would mean printing would become independent from macos and more stable.

So I would like to know if PPL using IP for the printer really bypasses the macOS color management layers, whether the driver is involved or not. 

[Rick_Floyd]

I gave up on using the printer with WiFi and switched to a usb direct connection.  That is 100% reliable where WiFi was 10-20% at best.