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Lebo77 · Jun 22, 2004, 07:58 AM

One more issue.

At home I have a Lexmark PrinTrio X75 printer. It's a USB printer connected to my windows 2000 box. I have it shared in windows, and can see it over the network from my powerbook, but the driver is not listed. I went to lexmark and dowloaded the OS X drivers and installed them. These allowed me to print if I connect the powerbook directly to the printer via USB, but I still can't print to it via the network. The X75 does not show up in on the list of printer types in the Add printer dialog under windows network printing.

Has anyone encountered this type of problem before?

videian28 · Jun 22, 2004, 08:07 AM

your lucky, I was trying the same thing last night with a samsung printer hooked to a winxp box and followed the OSX instructions to the letter, I could not even see the machine at all from my panther machine.

they have ALOT of work to do to make this functional

I was doing some research last night on getting this to work, I read somewhere that windows does not share the USB port printers so well, so maybe try it via the printer port..(which I tried and no change for me)

ghporter · Jun 23, 2004, 07:59 PM

I know Samsung drivers are going to be an issue because my ML-1430 was a real pain to set up. You have to use the ML-1200 series drivers to get that printer to work. I'll bet that there are many other printers that don't natively do PostScript or a broad-based PCL like HP uses that have this problem too.

In most cases, you should be able to use a BSD driver that's specific for your printer if one's available.

If you can't see the printer connected to a Windows box, make sure that the printer is shared (it should have a little hand under the icon) and that you've rebooted since you made the sharing setting.

Stefan · Jun 26, 2004, 06:13 AM

Originally posted by Lebo77:
Has anyone encountered this type of problem before?

i have not had the problem or tried what you are trying to do since i have no windows box. but i read about this in an article and it said that you have to start a service in windows called "unix printing system". you might want to look at your windows setup for that.