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deslucent - Jun 26, 2006 - 12:40 am

Hi,

I am a first time Mac user using a recently bought intel imac. When I first purchased the Mac I was able to print wirelessly on my HP Laserjet 1020 connected to my Dell PC.

However I have not been able to do so of late.The Mac is able to detect the HP printer and the print document appears in the print queue but does not print. The status of the document is "printing" though it is not.

I do not encounter this problem when printing from a pc laptop connected to the same wireless network.

Initially I thought the fault would lie in the Mac itself and tried reintalling the printer a few times. Then I read some discussions and they said I had to activate "priting from UNIX systems" on WinXP which I have done.

Thanks a million.

Cheers.

gsahli - Jun 26, 2006 - 8:40 am

It doesn't seem likely that you were able to print before.
Your printer is a non-postscript printer and it requires a CUPS driver to use the OS X built-in network protocols. HP doesn't provide CUPS drivers. To have a complete CUPS driver, you need to install the PPD, the foo2zjs driver and the foomtic and ghostscript packages from these links:
http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_pr...-LaserJet_1020
http://foo2zjs.rkkda.com/
http://www.linuxprinting.org/macosx/foomatic/

Then you can follow this guide for setup:
http://www.ifelix.co.uk/tech/3015.html

Or, you could follow a different approach and make the Windows PC the postscript server:
http://iharder.sourceforge.net/macosx/winmacprinter/

Good luck.