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Printer sharing with 10.5 and 10.6
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Senior User
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
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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?
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Last edited by indigoimac; Oct 7, 2009 at 10:57 PM.
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Clinically Insane
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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.
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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 $
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15" MacBook Pro 2.0GHz i7 4GB RAM 6490M 120GB OWC 6G SSD 500GB HD
15" MacBook Pro 2.4GHz C2D 2GB RAM 8600M GT 200GB HD
17" C2D iMac 2.0GHz 2GB RAM x1600 500GB HD
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Senior User
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
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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?
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15" MacBook Pro 2.0GHz i7 4GB RAM 6490M 120GB OWC 6G SSD 500GB HD
15" MacBook Pro 2.4GHz C2D 2GB RAM 8600M GT 200GB HD
17" C2D iMac 2.0GHz 2GB RAM x1600 500GB HD
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