Submit Hint Search The Forums LinksStatsPollsHeadlinesRSS
14,000 hints and counting!


Click here to return to the 'Printing from Mac to Windows attached HP All in One' hint
The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. This site is not responsible for what they say.
Printing from Mac to Windows attached HP All in One
Authored by: mschiller on Apr 12, '04 03:00:56PM

My printer is the above mentioned PSC1210. I have a TiBook as my portable, but my desktop is a PC running windows XP. (Apple needs to get an affordable sub $1000 upgradable! mac without a monitor... My PC cost me about $600 and does what a $2000 Powermac would have done at the time, but that's another story). Anyway I have tried time and again to get printing to work in the opposite direction. I want the full Software package installed on Windows, so that I can scan etc, but I'd like to print from my Mac. I tried and tried again with SMB/LPR printing and never got it to run right. Files would spool (show up on the windows box on the appropriate printer), this happened with SMB and for kicks I also tried LPR. I used the HPIJS driver on my mac, and that seemed to work fine if I connected the printer directly, but not over the network to the windows "print server"...

The only way I ever got printing to work was a custom CUPS output filter script which would upload a pdf file (might have been postscript? can't remember) to my Winblows box via SMB then a script on windows would see the new file in that folder and print it (and then delete it). It didn't work too well as you can imagine, since the script didn't work right if there wasn't a logged in user. [A big problem since I use Microsoft Remote desktop!]

Anyone come up with a better solution?



[ Reply to This | # ]
Printing from Mac to Windows attached HP All in One
Authored by: aacp@club-intern on Apr 12, '04 08:07:04PM

Hello,
I'm not sure to be a real help, but that's what i've made to print from my eMac to an "old" HP690C connected to a PC under Windows 98. The Mac is OS X 10.3.3, and connected to the PC via ethernet.
1- I installed the printer on the PC with the disquettes (!)
2- with a right-clic on the printer (on the PC) i choose "properties" to share the printer. The icon changed to an icon with a hand.
3- on the mac i used the "printer configuration" program (in the "utilities" folder) to "recognize" the printer under "windows printing" (not "printing via IP" or "open directory") and then i install the printer ("add a printer"), from OS X (10.3.3 has the 690 driver already).
4- know under the pop-up "windows printing" i have my deskjet and i can print from the mac (pdf and non-pdf files).

I'm sorry for the names of softwares and folders, but i'm using a french system...

I don't know if 10.3.3 has your driver, but maybe you can install it from a CD.



[ Reply to This | # ]
Printing from Mac to Windows attached HP All in One
Authored by: mschiller on Apr 13, '04 10:50:10AM

I haven't tried it with Panther, but in 10.2.8 doing exactly that resulted in no print outs...

The print job would spool onto the windows box (shows up in printer jobs on the PC) the printer would pull a peice of paper in and then the LED on the printer would start flashing...

Using the same driver on the Powerbook resulted in perfect prints if attached via USB rather then the network..



[ Reply to This | # ]
Printing from Mac to Windows attached HP All in One
Authored by: real71 on Apr 13, '04 05:39:47AM
Hi, I have a HP PSC 1350 all in one, that I use on the Mac, but I wanted to print through my PC XP, solution:

turn on Print Sharing on the Mac 10.3.3

then on the PC find the HP PSC 1350 on the network

change the drivers in the Advanced tab in the printer properties to AGFA-AccuSet 1000SF v52.3

You should now have a network printer working

It only prints black and white, but thats all I need from the PC, This might help someone.

[ Reply to This | # ]