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Few Added Hints
Authored by: shahn on Mar 29, '02 03:34:26PM

With help from jwwillsey, I got this hint to work and I'm now finally able to print to my personal LW 4/600 from my Wallstreet G3.

There is an important step that is not mentioned. You must also set up the LPR port on the Win2K machine and print to THAT port, not the original shared printer.

For instance, my set up: Laserwriter 4/600 connected via LocalTalk-Ethernet bridge to router; Win2K box to router with local IP address 10.0.1.100; PBG3 with local IP address 10.0.1.105

First, install the Unix printing services in Win2K using the Add/Remove Windows components control panel.

Next, add Laserwriter port: Select "Add Printer" in Printer settings. Select "Local Printer". Create a new port for "AppleTalk devices" (I capture the port so that all printing now goes through my Win2k box although I'm not sure this is necessary) and select the printer in the dialog box. Choose the closest driver. Name the printer, i.e. "Laserwriter" and enable print sharing, also called "Laserwriter"

Next, add the LPR port: Select "Add Printer" in the Printer settings. Select "Local Printer". Create ANOTHER new port for "LPR". Enter the IP address of your Win2K box (computer name should work here instead, but I used my IP address 10.0.1.100) and the printer name "Laserwriter". Select the same driver as used before. Give this "printer" a distinct name, i.e. "LPR-Laserwriter" and share it as well.

Now you can add the "LPR-Laserwriter" via the Print Center with success. Note: I had some difficulties printing to my LW 4/600 from Windows until I changed the output type (Advanced tab under Printer Properties) from ASCII to BINARY.

Works like a charm. Thanks to everyone for this awesome website. I check it everyday.



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RE: Few Added Hints
Authored by: curtian4 on May 09, '02 06:10:47PM

hi all,

anyone trying to do this using windows xp? shahn's procedure was helpful, but my printer still doesn't seem to want to print. i have a lexmark z52 set up on the winxp pc and i'm using the "generic" print driver on the os x mac. if anyone can spot where i've gone wrong, i'd appreciate it. here's what i've done:

on the winxp pc: setup 2 printers. 1 is the lexmarkz52 using the normal lpt1 printer port, and shared as lexmarkz52. 2 is lpr-lexmarkz52 using the lpr port with my winxp pc's ip address (192.168.0.3) and "lexmarkz52" in the printer queue input, and it is shared as lpr-lexmarkz52.

on the os x mac: in print center, i've added lpr-lexmarkz52 as the lpr printer, the host as 192.168.0.3, "lpr-lexmarkz52" in the queue input, and had to use the generic 'driver' because lexmark z52 was not an option.

when i print a document on the mac, say a webpage, it spools thru print center, which sends it over to the pc. then on the pc with each of the printer queues open, i can see that the document goes first to the lpr-lexmarkz52 printer, and is instantly spooled over to the lexmarkz52 printer. when the document is in the lexmarkz52 window, it acts as if it's printing--the kb of the document increases as it would if a physical document were normally progressing out of the printer (though no document does). finally, the document is deleted out of the lexmarkz52 print queue window as if it was properly printed.

so, i know the i'm getting the mac printed document over to my pc printer queue, but it's not printing out.

any ideas anyone?

btw: in windows xp, i could not find any settings for binary vs. ascii. i'm not sure if this is a xp issue or just my individual lexmark print driver.

thanks,
curtian4



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RE: Few Added Hints
Authored by: curtian4 on May 09, '02 06:24:27PM

I just did some more thorough reading and realized that i have to have a postscript printer (i've got an inkjet).

i'll try the ghostwriter solution.

thanks anyways,
curtian4



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