HP LaserJet 4000tn: "Unable to connect to printer" (IP printing)

The two Leopard machines on my LAN (one wired, one wireless) have trouble printing to my trusty LaserJet 4000tn. Panther, Tiger, and Windows XP machines work fine.
The printer is on the LAN and I'm trying to access it with IP printing. It gets stuck at "Unable to connect to printer; will retry in 30 seconds…"
If I power-cycle the printer, it will print the job.

I've just read through the thread and I might know what the problem is. Your printer is probably getting an IP address dynamically (using DHCP). I've found this to be a problem in some environments because the printer will sometimes suddenly get a new IP address and the computers, having received a specific IP address when they were configured, can't find the address. As a matter of course, when I install a new network printer I allocate a specific address to it. The downside is that your router's DHCP configuration will have to be redone to save a couple of IP addresses for the manual allocation.

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