[indigoimac]

I have a PowerBook G4 that I have been using at home as a print server, amongst other things. It has been running 10.5 like the rest of my systems, but now they are running 10.6 and I am having a real issue managing the drivers between them.

The printer is an Epson R320 and I have the epson driver installed on both machines -- but they are different versions because of the intel and ppc difference.

Basically the issue is that the 10.6 machines say they are using the driver provided by the PowerBook, but they're not because I am unable to access a bunch of settings -- like changing print resolution.

Has anyone successfully addressed this?

[olePigeon]

Have you tried using an AirPort Express instead of the PowerBook? The AirPort Express just turns any USB printer into a LPD/IP printer; drivers installed on the client machine are used.

[indigoimac]

Not yet, though I'm getting to that point -- it also serves as a backup server with an external hard drive which an Airport could handle, but since it's an extra and it was working fine for over a year w. 10.5 it would be nice to have it working again without shelling out $

[indigoimac]

This is getting to be borderline ridiculous I spent way too much time screwing with drivers on this and that including the new Epson set that Apple pushed today. Does anyone know how to manually set up an LDP or IPP server to more or less set the laptop up like an airport to let the client machines use their own drivers?