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Print to a shared non-PostScript Windows XP printer
Authored by: oogabooga on Nov 27, '03 11:36:21PM

I have an old HP Deskjet 820Cxi hooked up to a machine running XP. Even though I had it up and shared on the network, NOTHING seemed to be working to print - not Windows printing, not IP printing, nothing. The pages would leave my Mac and just 'disappear'. (It doesn't help that Gimp-print doesn't have a driver for this printer, either.) I ran through this solution in a few minutes tonight, and it worked like a charm.



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Print to a shared non-PostScript Windows XP printer
Authored by: rsylvester on Nov 14, '04 10:47:20PM
I have been searching for about a month for a successful way to print from my Powerbook G4 to a networked Windows XP machine, and tried soooo many solutions with no success.

The best I got was printing page after page of garbled nonsense, or printing blank pages till the paper ran out in my printer.

This Ghostscript solution is the first one that works!!! Not only was I able to print to an HP LaserJet on an LPT port on an XP machine, I was also able to print to a Xerox WorkCentre on another networked XP machine. The kicker is that the WorkCentre doesn't even have Mac drivers! I'm able to print to a printer I shouldn't even be able to print to!

This is a valuable solution, and though it requires a few steps, it can be done quickly enough - and it means surefire success!

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