[X4U] Network printing WinXP to OS 10.4.8 THE Problem defined!

[Daly Jessup]

At 7:26 AM -0500 4/12/06, John Erdman wrote:
>I seem to have solved the client/server network problems but he 
>printing still doesn't work. Thanks for all yr suggestions.  Two of 
>them were very helpful.
>
>As far as I can deduce the problem IS the printer driver. Tho Canon 
>makes good USB drivers for the i560 for both platforms, almost none 
>of their USB printers have drivers that allow them to be used over a 
>IP network. And further they've written them in such a way that they 
>can't be easily  modified to do the job.
>
>Apparently I need a CUPS driver to make this work. I've not been 
>able to find one that is specific to the i560, tho many others are 
>available at SourceForge.org. If one written for another inkjet 
>printer would work I don't know how I'd ever find it except for 
>trial and error.

I wish I could remember exactly what I did to make shared printing 
work on a Windows machine. I do know that it involved a mixed Mac/PC 
network getting internet from a Linksys wireless router. I plugged an 
Airport Base Station (Extreme) into the Linksys and a USB printer 
into the USB port of the Base Station.  On a Mac, I used the Airport 
Setup Assistant to make the Airport Base Station join the Lindasys 
nework. Then on the Mac I created a Bonjour printer. On the PC I got 
it to find the wireless network, then created a new printer with a 
standard local TCP/IP port, giving it the IP address that the Linksys 
was giving to the Airport Base Station. I created the printer on that 
port (this was an Epson printer). I realized later that I hadn't 
needed to wire the Base Station to the Linksys. Over the phone I had 
the client unplug the Base Station from the Linksys, and it continued 
to work for both PC and Mac.

I believe the keys were: having a USB port on the Base Station for 
the printer, and making a local TCP/IP port on the Windows XP 
machine, and creating the printer on that port.

Here are instructions (I haven't tried it this way) for printing from 
Windows to a USB printer connected to a Mac. It may be old, but also 
maybe there's a hint there that you can use:
<http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20021101062604548&query=print+to+mac-connected>

Daly

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