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Printing to a Networked PostScript Printer
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At ony of the places I work, they have a giant office-type Sharp AR-C160 color copier/printer. It's using a Fiery print controller to hook it up to ethernet. All the PCs there can print to it, and I'm attempting to get my Mac to print to it as well.
I've installed the drivers for it, which I would think can talk to it since they had the Fiery logo on the installer. Once the PPD files are installed...then what do I do? I went to Print Center to add the printer, but I'm not sure what to add and where.
Anybody have an idea? IP Printing, Open Directory, Rendezvous (nothing found), Windows Printing?
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You need to find out the following:
1. Whether it supports IPP or LPR (or both)
2. The IP address of the unit
If it supports IPP, use that in Print Center. If it only supports LPR, then use that instead.
If it doesn't use either one, you should be able to use Windows printing, but I haven't ever set that up on the Mac, so I can't tell you exactly how to do it. (But I know that others here can.)
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Originally posted by tooki:
You need to find out the following:
1. Whether it supports IPP or LPR (or both)
2. The IP address of the unit
If it supports IPP, use that in Print Center. If it only supports LPR, then use that instead.
If it doesn't use either one, you should be able to use Windows printing, but I haven't ever set that up on the Mac, so I can't tell you exactly how to do it. (But I know that others here can.)
tooki
I know the IP (dug through the touchscreen menu and found it). Not sure about IPP or LPR...will have to check the manual for that, I suppose.
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I'm fairly confident that it supports both, if it's a halfway recent model. The question is whether those protocols are activated. You can't hurt anything by trying them. Try IPP first, then LPR if IPP doens't work.
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With the printer added via IPP, I go to print a file, and jobs keep stopping as soon as I start them..and nothing prints. Weird. Also - no indication on the printer that it got any data.
With LPR, I get "Remote host did not accept data file (32)"
I just dug through the printer touchscreen menus - IPP and LPR are both ON, but have no settings for each.
I also just tried sharing the printer on a Windows box on the network, then printing to the Windows machine from the Mac, and the job gets sent to the PC and it shows up in the appropriate printer's queue. But after a few seconds, I just says "Error - Printing" next to Remove Downlevel Document. I wish it were more descriptive about what the error *was*.
Hmmh.
(Last edited by macgyvr64; Nov 18, 2004 at 05:27 PM.
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Hmmm, that's weird. Did you plug it in as generic Postscript device or did you use the proper .ppds? Is there a Unix machine around that can use that printer?
What about authentication?
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I used the PPDs that their software installed...there seems to be no authentication. The printer has no way to set it, and the machines don't ask for it.
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Originally posted by macgyvr64:
At ony of the places I work, they have a giant office-type Sharp AR-C160 color copier/printer. It's using a Fiery print controller to hook it up to ethernet. All the PCs there can print to it, and I'm attempting to get my Mac to print to it as well.
I've installed the drivers for it, which I would think can talk to it since they had the Fiery logo on the installer. Once the PPD files are installed...then what do I do? I went to Print Center to add the printer, but I'm not sure what to add and where.
Anybody have an idea? IP Printing, Open Directory, Rendezvous (nothing found), Windows Printing?
Have you look at the manual for help (Sharp USA web site has the manual in PDF format). Also, they have the PostScript driver on their website. Have you download the drivers from the website yet?
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Originally posted by veryniceguy2002:
Have you look at the manual for help (Sharp USA web site has the manual in PDF format). Also, they have the PostScript driver on their website. Have you download the drivers from the website yet?
The manual only has Mac OS 9 instructions, and I got the drivers from their site (to make sure I had the newest)
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