Selecting newly installed print driver

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First, I'm a noob on MACs so forgive the nooby nature of the question.

I'm setting up a printer on a Macbook to use a printer shared from Windows 7. Followed the tutorials I found for the network side of things and that seems to be fine (Mac send unprintable files to the Windows print queue).

The problem is the print driver on the Mac. The printer is a HP PSC 1315. It's not on the list when you Select Drivers during printer setup and even after loading the HP 111 updated, still no joy.

I downloaded the 1315-specific driver package and ran the installation but I have no idea how to find the driver to use during printer setup.

Help!

Thanks
 
In order to print to a Windows-shared printer from your Mac, you have two options. You may use either a CUPS driver for your printer. You may also setup your printer within Windows as a PostScript printer and then use a generic PostScript (LaserWriter) driver to print to it over the network.
 
So no way to use the native MAC driver? If I had one of the printers in the OOTB printer list, I would not be able to use that?
 
The easiest way to get that printer to work - is to plug it directly into the Mac USB port.

Some printers are not well supported (or not at all) for a network connection to that printer. That may include your Windows shared printer. You may need to use alternate drivers, and in this case, look for CUPS drivers for that shared setup. Some HP models are probably the worst, and the blame lies with HP, not Apple.
 
Physically connecting the printer to the Macbook is not an option on a full-time basis since other people need to use it as well.

HP provides MAC drivers for the printer and when connected locally it works fine. If I do connect it locally, and the drivers load, how can I find those same drivers when doing a manual printer setup using the Advanced setup icon?
 
lensman said:
... If I do connect it locally, and the drivers load, how can I find those same drivers when doing a manual printer setup using the Advanced setup icon?
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Asked and answered. HP provides USB drivers. USB drivers do not work over a heterogeneous network. CUPS drivers do. This is why two members of this forum recommended to use a CUPS drivers.
 
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