Printing to networked IBM printers

Jan 28, '03 09:37:10AM

Contributed by: tcurtin

I recently started using an ibook in an office surrounded by PCs (ironic, since I work at IBM and the group I work for probably tested the G3 in the iBook I'm using...). Up until today, I couldn't for the life of me print to any of the Ethernet printers in the office. A simple solution, but tough to find:

  1. open print center and click add
  2. select IP printing
  3. enter the ip address of the printer
  4. uncheck "Use default queue on server" and set the queuename to PASS
  5. printer model "generic"
  6. if you want to give the printer a more descriptive name, and you're running in 10.2, select the printer in the list in printcenter, and hit command-i. The "name and location" menu on that screen lets you change it to anything.
As an added benefit, once you've set this up in OS X, classic printing will work to the same printers, although they don't seem to get the descriptive names, just the IP addresses. I'm guessing you could fix that if you booted into Classic.

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