[Ti] printer sharing ?

[t molnar]

Thanks for the info.
I suspected so. Guess I will just "plug and play" directly to the 
printer. Or is that "plug and pray" as they used to (?) say in the 
windows arena.

cheers,
tim

>Tim-
>
>I wish I could give you some good news, but as far as I can tell, it 
>is not possible, with out using some sort of hack, to share a 
>printer between OS 9 and X with USB printer sharing. I had to 
>upgrade all of my machines that I need to print with to OS X in 
>order to get this to work. And if I'm in 9 I have to boot the iMac 
>DV I use as the print server to see the printer. It's quite possible 
>that I'm wrong here, and I would LOVE to know if it is possible 
>somehow, in order to get the two legacy machines I have printing.
>
>Matt Fosberg
>
>On Sunday, March 2, 2003, at 11:44  AM, t molnar wrote:
>
>>Hi all,
>>I have an epson 980 printer  hooked up to an older supermac running 
>>OS 9.2 via a usb pci card.
>>The supermac and my tibook are on the same hub. The computers see each other.
>>
>>Though I have printer sharing on with the supermac (simiar to a 
>>powermac 9500) and another mac with OS 9 can use the printer 
>>through this machine. The OS X print center in my tibook doesn't 
>>see the epson at all.  another mac with os 9.x does see it and can 
>>access it through the hub.
>>
>>Do I have to have some specific drivers installed for OS X print 
>>centre to show this shared printer?  The OS 9 systems of course 
>>used some installer for setting up the epson printer.  Is there 
>>some work around for having OS 9.2 in my tibook do the sharing?
>>
>>Not sure how to proceed with this. Any suggestions welcome.
>>
>>cheers,