Dell A940 Printer

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Dell A940 Printer

I just gave this, my old computer, to my father-in-law and cannot connect his Dell A940 printer...can I do this?

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imac G5 Mac OS X (10.4.9)

Posted on Apr 3, 2007 4:16 PM

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Answer 1

Klaus1

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Apr 3, 2007 4:36 PM in response to Janni.mac

Have you downloaded the correct driver?

Although I doubt that Dell would have one for Tiger!

Dell don't make printers, they just re-lable them. Do you know what printer it actually is?

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Answer 2

Apr 3, 2007 6:53 PM in response to Janni.mac

To Apple Discussions!

Check to make sure you have downloaded the latest printer driver. You will need to check Dell's website.

Otherwise, your best bet would be to go to the following:

Dell's Printer Technical Support website.

Call Dell's printer technical support on their toll free number: 1-800-915-3355

Use their Technical Support *LIVE CHAT*.

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Answer 3

Rod Hagen

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Apr 4, 2007 3:42 AM in response to Janni.mac

The Dell A940 is a rebadged Lexmark X5150 as I understand it, Janni.

See if Lexmark have Mac drivers for this printer. From what I can see the last one for this printer was only compatible with OSX 10.3.9, though, and is shown as not compatible with Tiger. - see http://www.lexmark.com/lexmark/sequentialem/home/0,6959,204816596666691854_682634834en,00.html

If not see if you can find a "Cups" driver through http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/MacOSX.php3 perhaps, though this may only enable the "print" function.

It may be worth bearing in mind that you can probably buy a faster, better, fully compatible, cheaper to run, printer for less money than the cost of replacing the ink cartidges on this 4 year old model, though!

Cheers

Rod

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