I've been told that because this printer model is not supported by Apple that if I connect using Airport Express (via USB into Express) that I may only get basic printing rather.
Does anyone know what this means...does it cancel the copy and scan functions? Does it support different font's, colours etc.....?
Print to an unsupported hp series f300 (Deskjet f370) USB printer on Airport Express.
The instructions have been well documented for how to get an unsupported USB printer to work with an OS X machine when it is directly connected. Use the HP Linux Inkjet driver in OS X, among others. What has not been documented is how to get that same USB printer to work when it is connected to an Airport Extreme base station. The proper settings are far from obvious. This is for you, because it took me several hours to figure out the trick.
The well documented part: You must first install the printer drivers. Install either the HP Linux Inkjet Driver (HPIJS) or Gimp Print. Second, you must install EPS GhostScript, which is included in both previous links.
The trick to getting all this to work, is to choose the proper printer port in the Print Center when adding the printer. Open the Print Center. Hold down the Option key and click on Add Printer. Pull down the list of printer types. The Option key will cause a new item to appear in the list called Advanced. Choose Advanced. A list of devices will appear. Choose AppSocket/HP JetDirect. Note that you use the HP JetDirect device regardless of the manufacturer of the printer connected to the base station, because the base station acts like an HP JetDirect print server.
Type in something for Device Name, whatever you like. Type in the device URL as socket://10.0.1.1 which is the default IP address of an Airport Extreme base station. Check your base station settings if you are unsure of its address. The address must match the base station's actual address. Pull down Printer Model and choose the manufacturer and choose the printer model from the list. Click Add. If the printer is not listed search for an equivalent printer
After much trial and error, I was able to print to my hp deskjet f370 (series f300) through the Airport extreme base station. This is was I had to do:
1) open Printer Set up utility
2) hold option while clickin on "Add"
3) choose "Advanced" from the top drop down menu
4) chose "App Socket/HP JetDirect" from the Device drop down menu
5) after "socket://" type in the IP address of your Airport base station. It is
probably 10.0.1.1 You can look this up using the Airport Admin Utility.
6) choose HP and then HP PSC 1100
It seems that PSC 1100 driver does the trick
7) finally, it seems that the printer must be "on" to print. Just press the button on the printer so that the green light comes on. In otherwords, the Airport can't wake up the printer, but I think that you can send a bunch of documents to the printer, and then hit the button later when you are ready to pick up your job, and it will then begin to print.
Hey, I'm using Mac OS X Tiger and I'm having near to the same problem with my HP Deskjet F380 All-in-One printer. I want it to print over Airport Express but it won't. I tried following the steps setup in the forumn response but I did things differently. First of all when I hold the option key while clicking the add in printer setup utility, nothing happens. So I added an IP Printer with the HP Jet direct socket and used the HP PSC 1100/footmatic hpijs driver. When I go to print it say its connected and ready but nothing happens. Any help in the matter would be greatly appreciated.
