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Mac Forum / Applications / Other MS Products / October 2005Printing to Windows Printer
Apple's Web site says "A list of shared Windows Printers" will come up when you're networked to a PC with file and printer sharing enabled. I've been trying to get this working for a month with my 10.4.2 ibook, and WinXP (SP2) tower with my Canon Pixma i4000. No such list comes up. I've tried a variety of things -- including downloading the Canon drivers to the Mac -- twice -- and after manually entering domain, machine and printer names (and selecting one of the drivers comes up under Canon BJ - none of which correspond to Pixma models) finally can print MINIATURE versions of pages (unacceptable). So I called Apple Care and they had me plug the Mac directly to the printer. The iBook then immediately knew it was connected to a Canon Pixma i4000 and WILL print this way -- but I STILL can't access the driver settings to choose paper type, quality, draft, duplex, etc. So I can only print standard quality/standard letter size only. Fresh out of ideas..... i feel your pain. i have never been able to print to a printer hosted by a pc from my pb (10.2.x, 10.3.x, 10.4) i did try the CUPS printer monkey motion, no joy. tried hint after hint from macosxhints.com , still nothing. Also, not able to print from pc to printer hosted by mac. pc's were running 98, xp, 2000. I did have a glimmer of hope with a hp 3310 multi function, but required dl of like 3 different pieces of software for each machine, patches, etc. so i gave up. rick > Apple's Web site says "A list of shared Windows Printers" will come up > when you're networked to a PC with file and printer sharing enabled. > I've been trying to get this working for a month with my 10.4.2 ibook, > and WinXP (SP2) tower with my Canon Pixma i4000. No such list comes > up. |
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