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How to print to a Win98, Win95, or WinME printer Network

Windows NT, 2000, and XP have built in LPD printing, but Windows 95, 98, and ME don't. However, using the free LPD-Win utility available online, you can still print from a Mac to a printer connected to a Windows machine. This tutorial explains how to set it all up.

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How to print to a Win98, Win95, or WinME printer
Authored by: steffan on Aug 16, '03 10:33:16AM

This article about LPD is actually way more than needed. You can enable smb printer sharing in CUPS and then print to it rather easily.

Use this from the terminal:

ln -sf /usr/bin/smbspool /usr/libexec/cups/backend/smb
killall -HUP cupsd

wait 10 seconds

1. Hold down the option key while clicking the Add button in the print center.
2. Select Advanced
3. From the device drop down select Windows Printer via Samba
4. Enter a name for the printer (this will also be used in -printer you can have as many
printers attached as you want!)
5. In the device URI you have a few ways to enter this. If there are no passwords used
then you will have a URI like this "smb://username@machinename/printername" Where
you see "username" do not change that to anything. Leave it as it is. On your MAC OS X 10.2+ machine open this URL http://127.0.0.1:631/sam.html - 8_7 and read it for more
information regarding this.
6. Select a printer model. By a default install of Mac OS X 10.2 there really are FEW
choices for printers so I have included the latest GIMP-Print drivers in the isntaller. You
now have over 300 options on PPD drivers and there are some really cool ones in there!
More can be found at http://www.linuxprinting.org .
7. When done with that click Add and then you are ready to go!

This should do it!



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How to print to a Win98, Win95, or WinME printer
Authored by: nwsnow on Aug 19, '03 01:36:45PM

wow.. this was super easy!

I didn't know about the hodling down option when clicking add.. Thanks so much for the very helpful comment. I feel like this comment should be it's own hint.



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How to print to a Win98, Win95, or WinME printer
Authored by: edwardsx on Sep 27, '03 10:48:32AM

I have a epson printer and there is no Epson listed. If I select generic it prints only garbage.

Thanks

edwardsx@charter.net



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How to print to a Win98, Win95, or WinME printer
Authored by: msvillarreal on Dec 30, '03 01:16:01AM

Look in the ESP option, there are a los of Epson model there.

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Maurice S. Villarreal
msvillarreal@mac.com



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How to print to a Win98, Win95, or WinME printer
Authored by: BMarsh on Mar 05, '04 12:18:02AM

I found a more detailed version of what steffan posted.

http://homepage.mac.com/william_white/print_to_windows.html



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