Printer Sharing issue?

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dfemorton

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I have a Dual processor G4 mac at home on and a Win 2000 pc with an Epson stylus RX500.

The Rx500 is connected to the pc and the Mac shares this printer from the pc,however when I try to print anything from the Mac the Epson just prints out jibberish code??

Is this a driver issue? I thought that mac OSX update would load all the latest drivers but maybe not..

Any advice would be great for someone thats really had a crash course in Mac issues over the last month..

Tried the basics,reboot,ununstall reinstall with printer setup utility but no joy.
 
Are you using the Epson supplied drivers or the in-built OSX ones ? Sounds like the printer is getting sent a postscript print job and as it is not a postscript printer it can't handle it.
 
dfemorton,
Nearly all inkjet manufacturers' drivers don't support windows/network printing. The drivers bypass CUPS, so the only comm protocol that works is the one the driver was written for - usually USB. This is the reason that Apple included the Gimp-Print drivers in OS X (the open source drivers are fully CUPS-capable). Your printer isn't supported in the version of Gimp-Print included in Panther (vers 4.2.5), but it is in the newer version 4.2.7 available here:
http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/MacOSX.php3

Good luck.
 
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