Macs and PCs talking to an HP

[James Baumann]

Hopefully someone can help me with this one.

At work I am the only Mac person (because I work with dummies).  I'm using 
an old G3, still on v. 9.2.

Myself and another person working off a Windows machine both have to print 
to an HP 8550 color printer through the network.  I have been told that 
because the printer has to be set a certain way for Apple Talk to 
communicate with the printer, it makes printing difficult for the Windows 
person (serves them right, I say).

Anyway, they are threatening to take my Mac away.

If I was to convince them to upgrade me to OSX and a new computer, would 
that help solve this network/printing problem?  I believe I read that the 
UNIX back would make networking better for Macs, but I wasn't positive if it 
would in this way.

Any help would be appreciated.



james

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