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nikg - May 3, 2005 - 6:10 pm

I have a small network with two PC's both with USB all-in-one's and a new Mac Mini. I can share files just fine but I can't connect to the all-in-one devices on the PC's to print. They are a HP OfficeJet 4110 and an HP OfficeJet G55. I have tried to download the software from the HP site but it expects either a IP or USB connected printer. Does anyone know how to do this?

kainjow - May 11, 2005 - 6:55 pm

Have you enabled sharing for your printers on your PC's?

You'll have to do this first, and then the Mac should be able to see them fine if they have the drivers for those printers.

Kevin

nikg - May 11, 2005 - 7:45 pm

Thank you for your reply. The both HP printers are shared and can be printed to by any PC on the network. The issue is that the options presented for connection are only USB or IP address radio buttons. If either is selected then an automatic scan runs which fails to find anything. In a MS Windows environment you could manually put in the printer as \\server\printer. I have tried using that with create and the unix equivalent //server/printer but neither have worked so I'm out of ideas

kainjow - May 11, 2005 - 7:51 pm

What version of OS X are you running?

nikg - May 11, 2005 - 8:10 pm

10.3.9

kainjow - May 11, 2005 - 11:10 pm

Have you tried going to Printer Setup Utility (in /Applications/Utilities) and then click Add in the toolbar, then from the pop up menu select Windows Printing, and select the workgroup and the computer/printer?

Kevin

nikg - May 13, 2005 - 4:47 am

Thanks that did find the printer and add it but as a generic postscript printer. It does print, but control codes.

kainjow - May 13, 2005 - 9:33 am

What do you mean "control codes"? You often have to select the type of printer from a pop up menu when you're selecting the Windows printer. But it shouldn't really matter that much since the PC will handle the actual printing.

nikg - May 13, 2005 - 10:38 am

I printed "May had a little lamb" from Appleworks and the printer outputed %!PS-Adobe_3.0
%RBINumCopies: 1
%%Pages: (atend)
%APL_DSC_Encoding: UTF8
%%Title

I then turned it off as, although it has added it a OfficeJetG55, is not sending it the file in a recognisable format. It does say it is a Generic Postscript printer, which clearly it is not, and there is no way to change this (that I can see) to say a PCL printer

kainjow - May 13, 2005 - 3:01 pm

Back in Printer Setup Utility, when you're browsing through the workgroups, once you've selected a printer/computer, there is a pop up button at the bottom labeled Printer Model. Are you able to choose your model through this?

nikg - May 13, 2005 - 5:27 pm

Getting close thank you but the OfficeJets are not in the HP printer selection. I tried choosing "Printer Model - Other" which lets me browse for the printer driver but I'm not sure were the driver software is or what the file type is so that I can search for it

kainjow - May 15, 2005 - 12:15 am

Well Nik I'm not sure what to say at this point.

Have you ever been able to use these printers over the network before from these Macs?

nikg - May 15, 2005 - 6:12 pm

NO, the Mac Mini is a new acquisition. Maybe I'm better attaching at least one of the printers to the Mac and using it, apart from anything else, as a print server