iFELIX HELP ME - Windows Printing

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iFELIX HELP ME - Windows Printing

Okay, ive read you helping a lot of other people with their windows printing problems, ive read the little guide you suggest, and ive even downloaded those 3rd party gimp and Hpijs drivers, yet i still am unable to print. I have an HP PSC 1510, in the 1500 series, connected via USB to my pc. its shared, and everything blah blah blah. I can find it with the "more printers -> windows printing" buttons in the print utility. I can even read that it says HP PSC 1510 as the name of the printer. When it asks me to choose the model, there is no PSC 1500 series in the driver list. Even after installing gimp drivers and Hpijs drivers, there is no PSC 1500 series. It makes me more aggrivated that the 3rd party drivers included just about every other PSC series, except the 1500 series. Please help me.

MacBook Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Posted on Sep 27, 2006 9:28 AM

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BigWeenz Author

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Sep 27, 2006 9:32 AM in response to BigWeenz

Oh yea, also one more thing. I can plug the printer directly into my mac via usb, and it recognizes it as an HP PSC 1510, and prints just fine. When its over a network however, the driver for the printer just dissapears.

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Sep 27, 2006 10:30 AM in response to BigWeenz

Time to replace your printer. You can only print over the network using the same version of Windows that is hosting the printer.

See http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/fastFaqDocument?lc=en&cc=uk&product=343094&dl c=en&docname=bpu04830 for a list of restrictions on these model printers.

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iFelix

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Sep 27, 2006 11:12 AM in response to BigWeenz

Use this process

Printing to a printer on a XP PC from a Mac running 10.4.x
http://www.ifelix.co.uk/tech/3015.html

With the HP Deskjet 900 Gimp drivers.

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BigWeenz Author

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Sep 27, 2006 11:31 AM in response to iFelix

okay, i dont have a specific one for Deskjet 900, but i have a whole bunch in the 900 series. I have HP Deskjets:
916c
920c
930c
932c
933c
934c
935c
940c
948c
950c
952c
955c
957c
959c
960c
970c
975c
980c
990c
995c

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BigWeenz Author

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Sep 27, 2006 12:46 PM in response to BigWeenz

Update: i downloaded the gimp drivers version 4.2.7, which included the driver "HP Deskjet 900 Series." I used my printer with these drivers, however it never printed. The print window says:

"Unable to connect to SAMBA host, will retry in 60 seconds...ERROR: Connection failed with error"

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iFelix

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Sep 27, 2006 1:12 PM in response to BigWeenz

Does the XP PC have an account with a username and a password?

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iFelix

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Sep 27, 2006 1:14 PM in response to BigWeenz

There is however another method, make your PC into a postscript RIP/server (it translates postscript and sends the result to the printer) as outlined on this webpage.

http://iharder.sourceforge.net/current/macosx/winmacprinter/

This document gives a detailed explanation of how to set up an HP DeskJet 722C printer that is attached to a Windows XP computer so that the printer can be used by a Mac OS X computer on a local area network (LAN). If your printer is slightly different, or you have a different version of Windows, or you're using a different Unix than Mac OS X, you'll have to adapt these instructions with your own creativity.

Not tried it myself yet, but according to what I have read it can work.

iFelix

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BigWeenz Author

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Sep 27, 2006 2:49 PM in response to iFelix

:/
I tried that all the way until it said i should print a test page. It didnt print, so im just gunna say forget about it if its this much trouble, i can just switch wires if i need to. Thanks a ton anyway.

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Sep 27, 2006 6:10 PM in response to BigWeenz

http://www.twistermc.com/blog/2005/06/21/bonjour-for-wireless-mac-pc-printing

Bonjour is supposed to solve all thoes problems.

You load it on your Mac and your PC...BOOM it works. I am still running OS 10.3.9, so I cannot try it.

HOWEVER, one IT guy told me that it creates a lot of internet traffic. And, your IT guy might have to unlock some things inorder to let you do this.

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Answer 10

Sep 27, 2006 8:11 PM in response to Vernon Alexander

The problem is the model of printer. Remember "Winmodems"? These PSC printers are pretty much the same. You have to use the same OS to print over the network.

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iFelix

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Sep 28, 2006 1:58 AM in response to BigWeenz

I tried that all the way until it said i should print
a test page. It didnt print,

Is the PC running any kind of internet security software?

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