I have a apple pc and cannot hook up a dell 966 wireless printer, why?

Because nobody has made Mac drivers for your Dell 966 wireless printer. It's like buying a diesel car and wondering why it won't work when you put gasoline into it

My opinion: find a mac supported printer

John B.

Depending on what you want to use the printer for you can use the usb cable to connect it to your PC and be able to print if all the right things are done.But if you want to use it as a net work printer you still have to use usb cable and connect to your server.

There are a couple threads that Grant posted how to add and configure printers.

Should not have to find something different or that printer would not work, they should.

Might want to tell us what Mac and what OS.

Re: Dell 966 Printer with MacBook

OK guys, here it is...

These are the steps I took and am now wirelessly printing from my MACBOOK on the Dell 966 All-in-one

1. You need a windows machine to initially set this up.
2. Turn the printer on and manually set the Network Settings from the Setup menu on the LED to what you want the printer to be. I recommend not using DHCP. I pick the >= 200 range for devices such as this, EX:
Enable DHCP: No
IP:192.168.1.200
MASK:255.255.255.0
GATEWAY:192.168.1.1
NOTE:It will not let you set up the SSID here. I do not use security, but just don't broadcast my SSID.

3. Connect the USB to the windows machine and run the setup disc for the Dell as a Network install.
Select the USB device when searched, then choose to configure the internal network adapter. (This actually configures the printer's adapter)
It will ask you if you want to run the printer on USB or Wireless, choose whatever you want for the windows machine.
The SSID and security are set in these steps!

ON THE MAC
4. Go to Lexmark and download the LPD 9300 Series Driver:
http://downloads.lexmark.com/cgi-per...p=Mac%20OS%20X

5. Open this dmg and run the installer. It will not find your printer, so choose to install a remote printer and search for 192.168.1.200 (in our example).

6. It will show a Dell AIO 966, select it and continue.

I tried this with several web installers from Lexmark, but this one finally worked only after this process.

I am going to connect my MACBOOK PRO now, I was just excited to get the news out.

Good Luck
-Bob

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