Another 10.3 printer sharing question

chevy

chevy

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I read more or less all that was discussed here about this sibject, but I didn't find an answer to this configuration.

I have 2 Mac (Albert, Paul) and a PC (Dirk) behind a Wireless router. All machines have several accounts.
Albert and Paul run 10.3, Dirk is XP.
An USB printer is connected to Paul, it is shared.
Albert sees the printer an can use it (as does Paul, of course).
Dirk sees the printer when one logs on Paul using any of the user's accounts. Dirk's printer driver accepts to print for to the printer, but the file never arrives on paper. What do I do wrong ?
 
Are you using the printer driver on XP, or an Apple Laserwriter?

Use a Laserwriter driver on XP.
 
Check the print que on the printer serving computer when you send a job and see if it gets processed.

Send a test of the simplest text file you can, first, to make sure the connection between the PC and the printer is solid. It could be the program you are using is sending printer instructions that your mac print ripper can't understand (Raster Image Processing): http://desktoppub.about.com/od/rip/
 
bobw said:
Are you using the printer driver on XP, or an Apple Laserwriter?

Use a Laserwriter driver on XP.
Click to expand...

LaserWriter ? For a non-PostScript ink jet printer ?
 
Yep, when I setup my Espon 925, connected to a Mac, to print from XP, had to use a Laserwriter driver on the XP machine and it worked fine.
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I had a problem doing this at first with an Epson 925. I deleted the printer, and just installed the Gimp-Print on the Mac. On the PC, you need to select an Apple laserwriter printer to install and it will work.

Configure a copy of your Mac-connected printer:

Quit your Print Center if running.

Open the CUPS web interface: point your browser to http://127.0.0.1:631

Select "Manage Printers" then click "Add Printer".

Enter "Name" = Printer Queue name (this will be the queue name "seen" from Windows); "Location" = blank; "Description" = Printer name (this will be the name inthe Print Center)

Click Continue

Select "Device" = Your printer - as listed in the menu: don't select anything else

Click Continue

Select "Make" = Your computer's manufacturer (from the list)

Click Continue

Enter Driver = Computer driver (from the list, a gimp or CUPS v.1.1 (en) driveronly)

Click Continue to finish. Optional - click on the printer link shown in the final step and click the "Print TestPage" button.

Configure the printer on your Windows PC These steps are specifically for Windows 2000 Pro. Adapt for other Windowsenvironments.

Open your Printers control panel 4.2. Select the Add Printer Wizard. 4.3. Select "Network Printer".

Select "Connect to a printer on the internet or your intranet"

Enter the URL thus: http://server:631/printers/printer

server will be the NetBIOS name of your Mac if you have names resolution such asWINS or DNS available on your LAN; if not, replace server with the IP address of the Mac.

printer is the Print Queue name of your printer as defined in step 3.4 above.


Click Continue to the next pane. You will get an informative message like "Theserver on which the blah blah blah printer resides does not have the correct printer installed. If you want to install on your local printer click ok"

Click ok!

Select any Apple LaserWriter Postscript Printer as follows:

Select Manufacturer = Apple

Select any postscript printer, e.g. Apple Color LW 12/660 PS

Click continue.

Select Yes or No to whether you want the printer to be default and finish. Optional - right click the new printer and from the Printer Properties menu, print a test page.
 
..... I think we'll continue to load the file on the Mac to print ......
 
Looks worse than it is. Pretty simple to setup.

No need to install Gimp on 10.3.
 
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