[FortyOne3X7S]

I have an HP LaserJet 1020 attached to a WinXP Pro workstation via USB. I have an Intel iMac networked with the PC wirelessly. I can detect the LaserJet on the iMac just fine, and on the iMac, documents spool and even say they have printed (they show up in the "completed" section of the printer control panel).

So, the iMac thinks the document printed, but it never did. When I look at the print queue on the Windows machine, I see "Remote Downlevel Document" in it. I assume that the iMac is printing to a port instead of starting the Windows Print Spooler, and this is why it is showing up with this name.

When viewing the LaserJet's queue on WinXP, the downlevel document is "Printing," and "113k/113k" has been transferred. But the document never prints - if I try to "cancel" the document in the Windows print queue, it says "deleting" for a verrrrry long time. Documents can be printed just fine locally on the Windows workstation. No documents can be printed from the OS X 10.4.7 iMac.

[pheonixash]

This is essentially the same problem I'm having with my HP PSC 1410 Series.

A few pointers:-
1. Have you enabled Unix Printer Sharing (Install that from the Add/Remove Windows Components Options)
2. Have you started up the TCP/IP printer service from Administrative Tools>Services, and set it up to start automatically.
3. Installed the correct drivers on the Mac? I see this to be the greatest bottleneck. I can print fine to an HP Deskjet 810C, but due to the non-availability of built-in support for the 1410, I can't install the correct drivers.

Just my $.02

[jsruok]

I had a similar problem. Fix: install printer driver for mac.

For me that included getting the driver off the manufacturer's site, connecting the printer to my iBook, setting it up as an USB printer and only then the driver was shown in the Windows Printing dialogue as one of the Printer Models. Printer is now connected to Win XP and remote printing is working just fine.