Should printers have fixed ip addresses?

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David Wood

I've posted this before but would be interested to hear from any
organisations using DHCP & host name only for printers. The accepted
opinion seems to be to use fixed but I have my doubts. At my workplace we
run 100+ printers on DHCP Obviously in a Unix environment you may need
some fixed addresses
Personally it seems pretty archaic to use fixed ip addresses in a largish
company with all the problems of keeping a spreadsheet and occasional ip
conflict.
 
Could you advise me whether the printers were using reserved DHCP scope or
any available?


Alan Morris said:
We have over 1000 publicly shared networked printers at the Redmond
Microsoft location. The default configuration is DHCP.

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David Wood said:
I've posted this before but would be interested to hear from any
organisations using DHCP & host name only for printers. The accepted
opinion seems to be to use fixed but I have my doubts. At my workplace
we run 100+ printers on DHCP Obviously in a Unix environment you may
need some fixed addresses
Personally it seems pretty archaic to use fixed ip addresses in a largish
company with all the problems of keeping a spreadsheet and occasional ip
conflict.
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