[G4] Mixed Network Printing

[Rav Norodom]

 From Jaguar, I am not so sure. But from Panther, Yes you can:

1. Open System Preferences, select Print & Fax, and check "Share my 
printers...."
2. In System Preferences, select Sharing, under Services select 
"Windows Sharing" and "Printer Sharing"
3. In Windows ME, add printer that appears as "Deskjet 940c" (or you 
printer's name) under "powermacg4" or name of your Mac that is defined 
under the System Perferences. When ask for driver, select Apple 
LaserWriter (Mac accepts only PostScript language from Windows). When 
ask for driver's components, insert Windows ME Reinstallation disk and 
select "win9x" folder. All Apple's LaserWriter driver components are in 
there. When print from Windows, the file goes straight to Apple's print 
spooler. There won't be file showing inside Windows' print spooler. All 
file will be printed in color under Apple LaserWriter driver. When I 
tested printing from Outlook Express in Windows Me to Mac's Deskjet 
940c printer, the characters prints out weird looking. I don't know 
what else I need to do to make it right at this point.

I also had tried the other way around also (printing from Mac to PC 
printer). The character prints out fine but the quality is not so 
great. It's ink dithering is too visible which causes grayish tone over 
all.

Later on, I bought a separate printer for my PC just to safe my 
headache. I think Laser Printer that has PostScript and network 
hardware built-in can really get the job done right when printing from 
any platform. USB printer is good only for sharing among single 
platform.


Rav



On Feb 15, 2004, at 5:07 PM, Kevin Willis wrote:

> 	I just bought a cheap LexMark USB printer today and I am trying to 
> add it to my mixed Windows/Mac network.  The printer has Windows and 
> Mac drivers, so it will work with everything in the network.
> 	I was hoping to connect it to my G4/400 running Jaguar and use the 
> printer sharing service with Jaguar to serve as a print server for the 
> Windows machines.  Is there a way to do that?
>
> Thanks
>
> Kevin
>
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