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A next step in USB printer sharing between PC & Mac
Authored by: interneth on Nov 18, '02 10:50:59AM

This hint definitively brought me closer to sharing a USB-printer (a HP deskjet 980Cxi) from a PC (my wife's) and a Mac (G4, 400, OS 10.2). Now in setting up a new printer within Windows (ME) the wizard recognizes the new printer definition that was made with CUPS. Trying to print however a Word-document from the PC results in an error message telling that the printer sent an error message. I start to believe that there is something wrong in the HP-driver (hp inkjet installer2.1.0f) or in the connection between G4 and printer, all the more because something doesn't work in a connection between my iBook (on Airport) and the printer connected to the G4. In this case the printer isn't shown at all when adding a new printer on the iBook. Who has further hints? TIA,
Paul



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A next step in USB printer sharing between PC & Mac
Authored by: mugwump on Jan 16, '03 04:08:16AM

Hi -

Were you ever able to get your PC to connect and print on
your USB printer on your Mac ??

I've been struggling with this for a month or so, and just
can't get it to work. My wife has an XP laptop upstairs
and I have an iMac downstairs that has a USB HP LaserJet 1200
attached to it. We share a cable modem connection by using
a cable modem router - the iMac is hardwired to it, while the
XP laptop has a wireless connection (the basestation is
hardwired to the router). We can each get to the Web with
no problems.

The "Add Printer" wizard seemed to work fine to set up a
network printer. I used to get as far as being able to start
a print job from the PC and actually get a "settings" page to
come out on the LaserJet - however, the only thing that comes
out after that is many pages of garbage. Each page has one or
two lines of strange characters on top, and that's all.

Tonight, I followed the instructions re: changing the Samba
config file - but now I can't even get the XP Add Printer
thing to even recognize the LaserJet anymore. Sigh . . .
I even went back and deleted all the printer stuff on the
PC, and reinstalled both the standard HP driver and the
Gimp-Print driver on the iMac. Still can't get past the
the point of the PC recognizing the URL for the printer.

Any ideas ?? ;^)

Thanks !!

Steve



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