Printing to a PC Printer

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Printing to a PC Printer

Is there any way to print from an iMac to a PC printer? I can't locate a Mac driver for the printer (a Dell 4409-od1). Without a Mac driver, is there any way to print to it? Perhaps by using Parallels? Save the document as a PDF and swing over to the PC side? Any suggestions (short of buying a new printer) welcome.

-Ray

3GHz Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.4.7), 3GB RAM

Posted on Aug 1, 2008 3:33 PM

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Answer 1

iFelix

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Aug 2, 2008 6:24 AM in response to Raymond Fox

Raymond Fox wrote:
Is there any way to print from an iMac to a PC printer? I can't locate a Mac driver for the printer (a Dell 4409-od1). Without a Mac driver, is there any way to print to it?

Possibly.

A way around this is to make your PC into a postscript RIP/server (it translates postscript and sends the result to the printer):
http://iharder.sourceforge.net/current/macosx/winmacprinter/

Perhaps by using Parallels?

Yes that will work, as there is a Windows driver for the printer.

Save the document as a PDF and swing over to the PC side?

Another option that should work, especially as OS X has PDF creation built in.

iFelix

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Raymond Fox Author

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Aug 2, 2008 10:12 AM in response to iFelix

Thanks for the rundown, iFelix. Sounds like a lot of hoops to jump through, but it's worth a shot. I'll let you know how it goes.

-Ray

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