Printing to a Lexmark x83 on a Windows box

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I have a Lexmark X83 on a Windows XP box on my home network. I recently got my new G5 and am trying to get it to print to the Lexmark. I would like nothing more than to yank the printer from the XP box and stick it on my mac, but due to other people using the printer on the network, that is not a possibility. I have tried regular OS X methods, DAVE and even Samba, with no luck on either front. The printer is shared and other people (Windows) on the network print fine to it. I know OS X should be able to do this.

Does someone know how to do this successfully?
 
First Step, Download and install Gimp-Print from VersionTracker.com, it has tons of printer drivers for HP, Lexmark, Epson, and Cannon Printers.

This is the link for gimp-print and yes it is freeware.
http://www.versiontracker.com/morei...id=15970&db=mac

(if you need drivers)
Next:

On your Windows XP Machine:

1. Log in as Administrator
2. Click Start>Settings>Control Panel
3. Then Click add/remove programs
4. Then Click add/remove windows components
5. Open the Other Network File and Printer Services section.
6. Put a checkmark in Print Services for Unix.
7. Click Ok; Click Next ( It will probably ask for your Windows Cd at this point)
8. Click finish
9. Close the add/remove programs window

Next steps will have the service start automatically, which is the prefered way to do it:

1. Click Start>Settings>Control Panel
2. Double click Administrative tools
3. Double click Services
4. Double click TCP/IP print server
5. Change the startup type to Automatic
6. Click ok and close all open windows.

Next steps setup the printer for tcp/ip printing

1. Click start>settings>printers
2. Right click the printer you want to share and select sharing
3. Click the radio button for Share as and fill in the share name you want to use. (Mine is hpphotos; for hp photosmart)

Now move to your Mac and finish things up.

1. Launch the Print Center for the Applications>Utilties folder
2. Click the Add Printer button
3. Change Appletalk to IP Printing (Ah making sense now eh?)
4. Enter the Windows XP Computer's IP address in the Address Box (Will probably look like 192.168.x.x, if you don't know go to your windows xp machine and from the Command Prompt type ipconfig, it will give you the network address for your windows machine
5. Uncheck the default queue radio button
6. Enter the name of the printer shared name (ex. mine is hpphotos) that you setup on your windows machine.
7. Select your printer model, if you installed gimp print it should be there, if not pic a close model number, my photosmart showed up.)
8. Close print center after the printer was added.
 
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