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Mac Sharing a PC Printer (HP), kills printer?
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I recently connected a mac tower running 10.5 to our home network. I went to printer utilities to add the printers on the network, and the HP 2110 connected to the WIndows XP box showed up. However, I didn't have the HP 2110 driver so I chose what seemed to be the closest one and hoped for the best. It never printed so I just figured it didn't work. Looking for the driver, looks like I needed the 10.5 disks to install it so I gave up. (the install cds are at work, where I can't get to them.) I decided I didn't need to print that badly and moved on.
Except, ever since then printing to that printer has been a major PITA from the XP box. The print spool fills up and takes up all the operating system, even after installing windows updates etc.
Could the mac have messed up the printer for the pc? How can we fix this? I already deleted the printer from the mac printer utility...
Any help would end marital strife. Thank you.
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I take it you've tried turning the printer on and off again and leaving it off for 30 minutes?
Is this an all in one 2110? What driver did you choose?
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he turned it off and on, unplugged it, reinstalled the HP software on the XP box, and updated XP. Not sure if he unplugged for 30 minutes.
I think I chose the 2100 as it seemed closest. It is an all in one printer.
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Originally Posted by andi*pandi 
he turned it off and on, unplugged it, reinstalled the HP software on the XP box, and updated XP. Not sure if he unplugged for 30 minutes.
I think I chose the 2100 as it seemed closest. It is an all in one printer.
As far as I'm concerned, the only 2100 HP ever made is the one that I have. It's a black and white laser printer that prints at 10ppm. No resemblance to what you have at all! 
I'm not sure why the XP machine won't print to it. What happens if you download the drivers from HP and then hook it straight up to the Mac?
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HP's site doesn't have the drivers, they refer you to the OSX install disks. :/ Which I sadly don't have.
I guess 2100 was the wrong one to pick!
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Remove the printer on the XP box in Printers & Faxes and recreate it. Make sure you can then print OK from the Windows box. Once that's working, worry about getting the Mac to print to it. Focus your troubleshooting on the easiest part (getting the printer to print from the connected computer) before worrying about the more complex part.
Steve
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Yes, we were mainly concerned with just getting the printer back to work with XP... it took microsoft support to find that the file I had sent from the mac was stuck in the spooler somewhere. (He had sworn that he cleared that, but!) After deleting that the XP is fine to print.
Thanks folks. I will look harder for the real drivers next time I want to print from that machine.
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