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Print to an unsupported USB printer on Airport Extreme
Authored by: ipswichclam on Dec 12, '04 02:29:56PM

After much trial and error, I was able to print to my Laserjet 6L through the Airport extreme base station. This is was I had to do:

1) open Printer Set up utility
2) hold option while clickin on "Add"
3) choose "Advanced" from the top drop down menu
4) chose "App Socket/HP JetDirect" from the Device drop down menu
5) after "socket://" type in the IP address of your Airport base station. It is
probably 10.0.1.1 You can look this up using the Airport Admin Utliity. Do **not** enter a port address (i.e. :9001) at the end, as is needed for some other parallel printers
6) choose HP and then HP Laserjet 4 Series CUPS+Gimp Print v4.2.5
It seems that Laserjet 4 driver does the trick, not the Laserjet 6L driver.
7) Oh yes, make sure that the firmware for the Airport Extreme base station is v5.4. This is NOT the latest version, you have to downgrade to it if you have done all of the recommended upgrades. This firmware can be found in the Apple site.
8) finally, it seems that the printer must be "on" to print. Just press the button on the printer so that the green light comes on. In otherwords, the Airport can't wake up the printer, but I think that you can send a bunch of documents to the printer, and then hit the button later when you are ready to pick up your job, and it will then begin to print.

Hope this helps someone!



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Print to an unsupported USB printer on Airport Extreme
Authored by: Hendrik on Feb 02, '05 06:51:28PM

Thanks a lot!!!

With the description above i've been able to connect my OKI B4100,
accept that i used a different driver (OKIDATA OL410e)



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Print to an unsupported USB printer on Airport Extreme
Authored by: sebas10 on Nov 05, '06 05:03:42AM

This worked partly for me ! thanks for the tip
I have an HP Deskjet F370 (F300 series) This printer is not present in the model list, so I used HP PSC 1100. And the v6.3 version of airport.



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