[X4U] Printer Sharing. Flakey,

[Philip J Robar]

On Apr 30, 2006, at 12:55 PM, Adrian Stubbs wrote:

> I have a G4 Sawtooth to witch is attached a Samsung Ml-1710 Laser  
> printer via USB. My wife uses an iBook. We are networked wirelessly  
> with a Netgear router. It's really a crap shoot as to whether or  
> not she will be able to print on the Laser printer when she's  
> working on her iBook. 75% of the time, or maybe more recently, she  
> just can't see the printer and no amount of messing around will  
> make it visible. Sometimes it is visible though even when my G4  
> Sawtooth isn't logged on... but just at the login screen.

You might want to look at Printer Setup Repair: http:// 
www.fixamac.net/software/psr4/index.php. (Note that it's shareware.)

Also printing is presumably better in Tiger. But, I couldn't find any  
information to substantiate that other than it includes it's own  
printing fixing utility and GIMP-print for supporting older printers.


Phil
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