We have 6 eMacs running Panther and 2 running Tiger. One of the Panther eMacs has a Canon i9950 local printer (very good!) and another has an older HP DeskJet 1220C. I've shared the printers as network printers and installed them on each eMac. They kind of work, but users complain:
1) When they come to select a printer, they see a huge list of network printers as well as the locally attached printers on the two eMacs! This is confusing and surely there is some way to suppress seeing printers installed as network printers on other hosts?
2) Users don't get all the printing options on network printers. There are more printing options & functions if they sit at the machine with the printer connected locally. So this is what they queue up to do, instead of using the network printers!
The printer sharing is done via Appletalk. We have got a iserve running 10.3 in the server room for storing users work, configuring policies, etc, but this doesn't seem to be involved in the printing.
I not sure how to proceed with sorting these out. Am I stupid or something? I have searched this forum for a while without turning up much. I know a bit about Macs, but not a lot.
1) When they come to select a printer, they see a huge list of network printers as well as the locally attached printers on the two eMacs! This is confusing and surely there is some way to suppress seeing printers installed as network printers on other hosts?
2) Users don't get all the printing options on network printers. There are more printing options & functions if they sit at the machine with the printer connected locally. So this is what they queue up to do, instead of using the network printers!
The printer sharing is done via Appletalk. We have got a iserve running 10.3 in the server room for storing users work, configuring policies, etc, but this doesn't seem to be involved in the printing.
I not sure how to proceed with sorting these out. Am I stupid or something? I have searched this forum for a while without turning up much. I know a bit about Macs, but not a lot.
