If you have more than one printer in the same zone and you choose a name for one printer that is already assigned to another, the second printer registers itself on the network with the number 1 appended to the name.A change is persistent across printer power cycles. It may contain any printable characters however, the characters : = * are deleted from the name used on AppleTalk. The name can be up to 31 characters long. The name selected here prints on the Startup Page and Configuration Page the name also appears in the Chooser on a Macintosh. With a PC running Windows on a NetWare network, you can use the PhaserShare Administrator see Changing the printer's name: PhaserShare Administrator.With a TCP/IP connection and a World Wide Web browser, you can use PhaserLink software see Changing the printer's name: PhaserLink software.Use the Apple Printer Utility see Changing the printer's name: Apple Printer Utility.
There are three ways to change the printer's name:
