Printer sharing with Windows XP/Tiger... HELP!!!!

2 things to clarify for my sake.

1) Your wanting to print from XP to the Mac or through Airport Extreme/Express?
2) Do you have Bonjour for Windows installed?

If you are printing from XP to a Mac, I have always found that nearly impossible, except now with Bonjour.

If you are printing from XP through an Airport Extreme/Express station then is Bonjour installed?

- Frank

No problem...So the PMac is connected via usb...my Canon won't print via usb to windows or apple. So if you have AE try plugging it in to that if this next step doesn't work.

Bonjour = Rendevous. Bonjour is the newer Network Chat/File Transfer/IM program for Apple. It was released with Tiger, soon after it hit the freeware market for windows. Bonjour

Once setup of Bonjour for windows is complete you should be able to setup your printer on windows without using AE.

I have never seen that before. Today I'll reinstall my canon and see what happens. I can give more help after that.

- Frank

Well if you want to use it as just a printer it can be networked generic or not (i think). If you want to use all the functions then it has to be a stand alone printer on windows.

Mike
I've had the same problem. You might want to chek out the following
http://www.ifelix.co.uk/tech/tiger.html
I have not been successful with 10.3 but I'm just getting back. Perhaps we will both get lucky and find our answers in 10.4

good luck...

Mike,
Your conclusion is wrong. There is such a thing as a RAW queue on any CUPS-based system (OS X is one). With a RAW queue, the print server acts only as a comm link from ethernet to printer without filtering the input. If you'd like to try that I can help. Here's how I use that: I have a cheap Epson R200 printer connected to my Mac. I have the printer set up using the Epson driver (Epson USB) and get complete use of all features. I have another printer added in Printer Setup called Epson_RAW. It is only for sharing to my WinXP computer (it can't be used on the Mac itself, because all the normal postscrit RIP/filtering is disabled). The PC connects and prints to this RAW queue by IPP with this URL:
http://{IP of_Mac:631/printers/EpsonRAW_queuename
I get full use of the features of the Epson driver. One thing I don't get is access to the Epson head-clean utility. But I still have that on the Mac, of course.

Does this sound like what you want?

I just found this link with pretty good instructions:
http://www.stocksy.co.uk/information/pantherprint/pantherprintxp.php

If you got an airport express and plugged the printer into that, your PMAC could use it obviously and you could set up a new print driver on each XP machine with a TCPIP port and IP address of the Airport express, with type =RAW - I do that very successfully to print from my XP laptop to my airport express attached printer(s)

If you're interested post back and I'll give you full details

Hi.. new post to this thread. Having exact same issues between XP clients and USB printer connected Mac G5 - jobs were disappearing and showing up on completed jobs list.

After reading this thread I set up a "Raw" printer on cusp following the link provided by Greg. The XP machines are now successfully sending to new Raw queue, however jobs show up in Active Jobs list but appear to be stuck there.

CUSP Printer status shows following message:

Printer State: processing, accepting jobs.
"GenericClass: waiting for device"
Device URI: usb://HP/PHOTOSMART%201315?serial=MY24H1413YTS

Any ideas?

Andrew, wondering if you entered the exact queue name? from Show Info

I believe so.. as I said the jobs I sent from the XP machines do show up in the right queue on the mac, but they just seem to get stuck there. I can see the jobs in the queue using both CUSP and the Print Queue under the Print & Fax preferences page. Both methods give me the "GenericClass: waiting for device" message.

Some progress in the last 24 hours. I've determined two ways to get the XP machines to print to my HP Photosmart printer via USB on Mac.

Method 1: Have added "original" printer (i.e. not Raw) to XP machine but with an "Apple Color LaserWriter" driver instead of the correct HP Photosmart 1315 driver. This appears to work quite well, based on the concept that the Mac receives the print instructions from the XP machine in Postscript form and translates to HP language internally. Obvious drawback is I'm using a proxy driver and therefore and likely losing some functionality. I haven't been able to fully test this; simple Word documents appear to print fine although I did have some trouble printing a PDF.

Method 2: I traced the "GenericClass: waiting for device" message to a particular issue for some models of HP printers related to an application called "\Library\Printers\HP\HP Communicator". By removing this program and rebooting I was able to print from the XP machines using the Raw method described previously. Thus my XP machines can print using the proper HP driver. However at the moment the Mac itself cannot print - the printServer merely halts the print jobs in the queue. This also requires further investigation.

What I need is either a HP Photosmart 1315 driver (or good quality proxy) for the Mac which can operate without the HP Communicator application, or some way of enabling/disabling the HP Communicator program with each print job (i.e. enabled for Mac printing and disabled for XP printing).

Finally, based on the discussion group traffic I've seen, it appears this issue with has been around for at least a couple of years. Surely Apple and HP could get their act together on this one.