Sharing a USB printer with a Windoze machine?

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Michael Breslau - 07 May 2008 20:35 GMT

Setup: iMac, 10.5.2, wired ethernet LAN, Cannon IP4500 printer on the
iMac. In the next room, another iMac and a Lenovo Thinkpad running
Windoze XP.

Question - is it possible/practical to share the printer among these
computers? I could buy another printer (they're cheap enough) but I'm
running out of space. Is there an ethernet print server or some software
that I could use to print from the XP box?

TIA,
MIke

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Andy Hewitt - 07 May 2008 21:35 GMT

> Setup: iMac, 10.5.2, wired ethernet LAN, Cannon IP4500 printer on the
> iMac. In the next room, another iMac and a Lenovo Thinkpad running
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> running out of space. Is there an ethernet print server or some software
> that I could use to print from the XP box?

Install Bonjour on the Windows machines (downloadable from Apple), I did
that here, and printer sharing worked a treat between Macs and Windows
boxes. I did have the printer connected to my G5 though.

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Steve W. Jackson - 08 May 2008 15:07 GMT

> > Setup: iMac, 10.5.2, wired ethernet LAN, Cannon IP4500 printer on the
> > iMac. In the next room, another iMac and a Lenovo Thinkpad running
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> that here, and printer sharing worked a treat between Macs and Windows
> boxes. I did have the printer connected to my G5 though.

I also have an XP system using my USB printer hosted on an iMac. My
iMac G5 is connected via Ethernet to my router, and several other Macs
in-house access its printer in the usual Apple way via wireless. My
work system is XP and uses that very same printer via Bonjour for
Windows and its wireless connection to my network with little trouble.
The only hiccup is that I had to tell Windows that my printer was a
Generic/Postscript printer when it's actually an Epson...but so far I've
had no troubles.

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Steve W. Jackson
Montgomery, Alabama

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Sharing a USB printer with a Windoze machine?