Canon LBP5050n not reconnecting after reboots

[Malfie]

This printer has it's own ethernet port and installs under Vista32 through a D-Link ADSL modem/router,quickly as per instructions. However, sooner or later, upon rebooting the PC, the printer is not found even though it's status says "Ready". As best I can determine this is not an isolated occurance with Vista. The only sure way to regain connectivity is to remove the driver and reinstall/reboot.. not a real solution.
It does exactly the same thing on my networked Vista notebook.
Can anyone assist?
Thanks

[EINSTEIN_007]

So, have you tried to reinstall the driver for your printer and checked whether its working or not?

[Malfie]

As I said ...
"The only sure way to regain connectivity is to remove the driver and reinstall/reboot.. not a real solution."
What I'm doing is checking that it works after doing the above.. and it always prints.. The problem is that after x boots it fails to connect upon reboot.

[Hardwareman]

hey can you give more details about your printer
may be i can find whats wrong?? but it's really sounds like a problem with the driver.
try to update the drivers for vista since re installation rituals sucks

[Malfie]

Don't know what else to say about the printer other than its a new model (Canon site says LBP5050N **NEW** ) and it seems it came out about 6 months ago. http://www.canon.com.au/products/pri...50n_specs.aspx
It was just showing as "OFFLINE" although if I click offline it says OFFLINE Offline.
I just changed the Advanced Port Setting from Raw to LPR and set the queue as lbp5050 and LPR Bye Counting Enabled and the printer became available and I was able to print a test sheet.
Maybe that's the fix, maybe not.. Just have to see how it goes.
The printer driver is the latest V1.1
I'll come back with a report in 2 days to give it time to prove itself.
Thanks for the reply.