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Wireless Printing & OS X
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Join Date: Oct 2002
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All the refs that I have come across make the point that you cannot print to wireless router/print server setups because of a limitiation in OS X and the print drivers supplied. And postscript is a must which effectively rules out many inkjets. Yet the Airport Express does it. Anyone has any experience to refute this?
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I have printer with built-in ethernet connected to a wireless router. I print to it with no problems at all.
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How silly of me not to mention that I meant USB printers.
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I've never tried, but I can't see why using an external USB print server then connecting it to your wireless router wouldn't work...
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Join Date: Mar 2001
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I've noticed problems with most USB printers over a wireless connection (shared from a PC or connected to a USB print server). In contrast, the same printers work fine if they're connected using a parallel port.
If possible, get a printer with a parallel port and a corresponding print server.
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Moderator  Join Date: Sep 2000
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I wirelessly print to my Canon iPixima 5000 (USB) with no problems whatsoever with a generic CompUSA router.
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Administrator  Join Date: Apr 2001
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Originally Posted by teszeract
All the refs that I have come across make the point that you cannot print to wireless router/print server setups because of a limitiation in OS X and the print drivers supplied. And postscript is a must which effectively rules out many inkjets. Yet the Airport Express does it. Anyone has any experience to refute this?
Your information is quite incorrect. OS X supports a number of network printing methods, including SMB, CUPS and built-in IP printing, as long as (and here's the key) the printer's driver supports it. THIS is the one thing that stops most people from printing through networks from their Macs.
Right now I have a Brother 2040 that works perfectly with the PC driver, but when you use the Mac to print to it, it prints two blank pages after your print job. That's better than my Samsung's driver-it didn't support network printing at all, so I got to learn a lot about the world of CUPS and settled for a driver that worked OK, but not perfectly.
Oh, and this belongs in Networking, so here it goes!
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Glenn -----
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I had this problem with a HP Laserjet 1010 connected with USB to a 'Doze PC. The Mac driver that shipped with the printer didn't support printing over the network.
However there are alternative open source printer drivers available. I used one called HPIJS, and there is a Gutenprint which I think supports a lot of printers.
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