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Windows printing off a Mac-connected USB printer
Authored by: 199cm on Apr 20, '06 09:04:27AM

No. You don't need Bonjour or another soft for this. If the printer is shared on mac, just go on PC to network places, choose view computers in workgroup and your mac will there appear. Double click on mac icon. You will see shared folder and shared printer/printers. Double click on printer and windows will add them. Here the point is - when you will be asked for a printer driver, don't choose one for your printer. The right driver is Apple postscript printer driver.

That is. Now you can print from Windows to mac-shared printer.



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Windows printing off a Mac-connected USB printer
Authored by: webBarista on Apr 20, '06 12:37:28PM

Having just fought with XP refusing to delete a shared printer so that it could be re-added using the method in the previous comment, I have to say I found the Bonjour setup wizard to work very slick. So far it doesn't seem to be suffering from the problems I had with the standard sharing method.

A good hint if your allowed to install Bonjour on your XP system.



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Windows printing off a Mac-connected USB printer
Authored by: manifest37 on Apr 20, '06 03:46:39PM

That method does not work with this printer specifically and probably many other printers. It never prints. You select the i960 driver and nothing ever happens. Hook the printer up to an Airport Express and neither Mac nor Windows can print to it in a useable fashion.

This method how ever worked!! Awesome! I tried creating a generic postscript printer on windows and then sending it via lpd that didn't work either. Thanks again!



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