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LPD Printing to Inkjets on W2K Box
Authored by: jwillsey on Oct 01, '02 04:12:55PM

I tried the smc barracade 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 an W2K box.

On the W2K 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 reccomended, and created my printer using the IP address and LPD queue name I had just set up on my W2K 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!!

Whoo Hoo!!



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