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Oct 18, 2006, 12:18 AM
 
I have a G4 tower with a usb printer attached (an hp). I also have a Macbook, running winxp. I can print from my Macbook when running MacOS wirelessly. I can find my G4 while running xp and share files. I cannot print to the darn printer though. I can find the printer, and when I do a test print it even appears to go through, but alas, nothing comes out. I've looked all over the place on how to fix this and I'm on the verge of seriously going nuts. I would love to just ditch xp, but I need it for my Real Estate career so I can print out the MLS sheets (the software only runs on xp). I would appreciate any help at all. Thanks and cheers!
     
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Oct 18, 2006, 07:05 AM
 
What printer is it? Some USB HPs have decent drivers and work fine to share, while others just will not work. USB printers in general don't network well, and particularly with OS X, due to a lack of driver capability.
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Oct 22, 2006, 04:17 PM
 
hp c3140 printer.
     
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Oct 29, 2006, 05:58 PM
 
i have an ibook g4, an airport express and a photosmart 1315 printer. I can not seem to plug the printer into the airport and it get it to printer wirelessly. Of course when i connect the printer directly to the ibook there is not problem in printing.
     
   
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