Pinging a printer to see if it works over the network

I've been printing from a Windows 7 computer to a PSC C6180 over a wireless network. All of a sudden it stopped printing. I don't if a power surge or something blew some stuff out (the fax part is already gone) or if it is something else.
I removed the printer and removed the installed software in order to put it back in its "initial state."
Before I removed the software, I tried to add a network printer to see if that would do it. At the point in the process where it looks for printers, it didn't find it. It makes me wonder if it will work over the network at all, but I do note the blue 802.11g LED is lit.
Before I reinstall the software (AIO_CDA_FSW_Full_Win_WW.130_140.exe is what I have) I want to ping the printer and see if the computer can see it. What's the ping address?

Hello ErnieLane,
Please follow steps 1-4 described in Access the Embedded Web Server to print a configuration page, it will contain the current IP address (if any).
Hope this will help.
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> Curious,
>
> I'm been using Dreamweaver for awhile now, both at work
and at home as a
> hobbyist. My preferred setup when working on a set is to
be connected via
> FTP
> to the set so that I can work on the documents directly
without have local
> and
> remote versions of the documents.
>
> If I do choose a local directory and then also a remote
directory with and
> Local/Network connection for the remote files that works
failry well but I
> end
> up getting local copies of files and folders that I'm
working on, which is
> good
> for performance but not so good when there is getting
and putting of
> documents
> and a slow connection.
>
> My preferred method using a Local/Network connection for
the remote files
> is
> to do that and not even have a local folder and no local
files.
>
> Like I said, the only remote connection for me that
seems to work well is
> the
> FTP connection.
>
> Wondering what others experience is and what they
recommend. I guess I
> may
> have to change the way that I work but I would prefer
not to. I have used
> other programs as well (e.g. BBEdit (which I like, I'm
working on a Mac),
> TextMate). These are a little faster but there is still
some performance
> issue
> when working over the LAN.
>

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