Thursday, October 16, 2008
Printing From a Mac to a Shared XP Printer
Having tested the water, and moved from Windows XP to Mac Leopard OSX - it has been driving me crazy that I can't easily print at home.
It seemed like it was supposed to work - the Add Printers dialog has a button for Windows printers - but it just remained blank. My old Vaio laptop could see my Desktop's printer, but not the Mac.
I searched on the internet, and learned about Cups but that didn't work.
At one point I considered a hardware solution from Edimax, and then tonight I happened to type in the magic search words "Windows XP LPR" and boom - there it was, the magic recipe for printing from OSX Leopard. It lists some very detailed steps, and there are a lot of them, but by god it works.
Many thanks for R Harder for publishing this...
It seemed like it was supposed to work - the Add Printers dialog has a button for Windows printers - but it just remained blank. My old Vaio laptop could see my Desktop's printer, but not the Mac.
I searched on the internet, and learned about Cups but that didn't work.
At one point I considered a hardware solution from Edimax, and then tonight I happened to type in the magic search words "Windows XP LPR" and boom - there it was, the magic recipe for printing from OSX Leopard. It lists some very detailed steps, and there are a lot of them, but by god it works.
Many thanks for R Harder for publishing this...
# posted by Tim Mackinnon @ 1:37 AM 
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