BeamQueen82
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Q: installed network printer but can't print

I have tried for a full day now to install a Samsung Printer (which is networked on a PC) and print from my new macbook pro. No success.

 

I spent most of it online chat to apple but they couldn't solve the issue either.

 

Please HELP!!!

 

I have manage to look like I Have added the printer and the image is the same as the printer I Have and then I go to print and it just PAUSES and even if you click resume it still doesn't print.

 

I have tried so many different ways of adding the printer.

 

Also when you go to print it asks for username and password - is that your mac U/N and P/W or the PC the printer is connected to???

 

Thank you so very much.

MacBook Pro with Retina display

Posted on Dec 14, 2013 10:47 PM

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  • by Grant Bennet-Alder,

    Grant Bennet-Alder Grant Bennet-Alder Dec 14, 2013 10:59 PM in response to BeamQueen82
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    Dec 14, 2013 10:59 PM in response to BeamQueen82

    Also when you go to print it asks for username and password - is that your mac U/N and P/W or the PC the printer is connected to???

    That's the PC asking.

     

    OS X Mavericks: Connect to a printer shared by a Windows computer

     

    Windows printers are much easier to find if you have Bonjour for Windows installed on the Windows machine:

     

    http://www.apple.com/support/bonjour/

     



     


  • by LowLuster,

    LowLuster LowLuster Dec 15, 2013 1:51 AM in response to BeamQueen82
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    Dec 15, 2013 1:51 AM in response to BeamQueen82

    Sorry to say but you probably never will get it to work. A printer connected directly to a Windows PC is not a Networked printer. It is a Shared printer that may be visible on the LAN but it is not really networked.

    Now that we have that out of the way. It has been my experience that No Mac computer running any version of OS X can connect to and print to a printer connected directly to a Windows PC. Sure you can find the Shared priinter on the LAN and install the drivers for it on the Mac. And even maybe print a test page to it from the Mac (Doubtful). But when it comes to actually printing to the printer from the Mac nothing ever really come out of the printer.

     

    Stop pulling your hair out over this and spend the $100 or so to buy a new printer that connects directly to your LAN by either Ethernet cable or Wifi.

    BeamQueen82 wrote:

     

    I have tried for a full day now to install a Samsung Printer (which is networked on a PC) and print from my new macbook pro. No success.

     

     

    Thank you so very much.