LPD Printing to Inkjets on Win2K Box

Oct 03, '02 08:50:46AM

Contributed by: jwillsey

This is a followup from the SMC Barricade hint, but folks in my situation might not find my comment as the subject sounds different.

I tried the SMC Barricade tip for getting the CUPS printer drivers set up by going to http://127.0.0.1:631 and changing my printers from generic PostScript to Epson Stylus printers. For the first time ever, I can print to my color printers without swapping cables between my Mac and Win2K box.

On the Win2K box, I set the TCP/IP Print Server Service to automatically start, then created a new local printer, created an LPD port and pointed it to my Epson inkjet. After getting a successful test page, I went to the Mac.

On the Mac, I went to the Print Center as recommended, and created my printer using the IP address and LPD queue name I had just set up on my Win2K box. Then I went to http://127.0.0.1:631 and clicked on Printers -> Modify and changed my printer from generic PostScript to an Epson Stylus Color. It works!!

Now I can print over Ethernet from my Mac to both my old parallel Stylus 600 and my newer USB based Stylus Photo 875DCS using my Win2K box as a print server!! Before CUPS I thought I would only be able to use Postscript printers...

Whoo Hoo!!

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