Any way to use an Oki 3200 on a Mac

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Any way to use an Oki 3200 on a Mac

I bought an Oki 3200 colour laser printer about a year ago then swapped from my permanently breaking Windows laptops to a MacBook Pro about 9 months ago.
The MBP is great but there are no drivers from OKI for the printer and I've been unable to get any online so initially printed by dual booting in Bootcamp.
Anyone know how to get a Windoes only printer to work on a MBP?
I now have Parallels Desktop and run XP in it and would prefer not to have to restart to print, but I think you need printers installed in OSX to use them through Parallels.

Thanks

Macbook Pro 15", Mac OS X (10.4.8), 2.16 GHZ, 2Gig, iPod 30 Gig and Nano

Posted on Feb 9, 2007 3:30 AM

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Answer 1

Feb 9, 2007 5:04 AM in response to dulcettones

This thread suggests you can...

http://lists.freestandards.org/pipermail/printing-user-general/2006/008573.html

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dulcettones Author

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Feb 9, 2007 7:03 AM in response to Neil Phillips

Tried the gimp print and ghostscript.
Neither seem to have a driver for a 3200 although there were a lot of other OKI printers.
Thanks for the help though.

Anybody else have any ideas?

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Answer 3

Feb 9, 2007 7:38 AM in response to dulcettones

Did you see the "Intel Mac OS X" link on the Okidata driver page for this printer? Looks like it's been there for a year.

http://my.okidata.com/pp-C3200n.nsf/openingdrivermenu?OpenFrameSet

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dulcettones Author

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Feb 9, 2007 3:29 PM in response to Paul Bielski

Unfortunately that's for the c3200n, I have a c3200 (no 'n') which is windows only, hence my problem. I had previously tried this driver but my MBP won't recognise the printer.
Thanks for trying though.

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IS300Sam

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Feb 9, 2007 3:54 PM in response to dulcettones

Looks like that will not be possible. I have the 5150n, and it works like a charm. Love it. Have you contacted Okidata to see if they have a driver on the way?

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dulcettones Author

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Feb 9, 2007 3:58 PM in response to IS300Sam

As far as I know there's no plans for a driver as the 3200n has outmoded my 3200.
Will have to wait till I get a network set up with my wife's desktop (Windows) as a server.
Shouldn't I be able to print to it as a network printer then?

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Answer 7

Feb 9, 2007 5:33 PM in response to dulcettones

Unfortunately, without drivers for the operating system, even if you use a Windows computer as a print server you may not be able to print. That is because the drivers describe, to the operating system, the capabilities of the printer.

You might try the drivers for the 3200n though as I believe that it is the same printer with the addition of 10/100Base-TX.

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