How can I share a HP with my imac and power book?

severine26severine26
Posted:
in Genius Bar edited January 2014
Hi,

I have a 2 years old imac without airport card and I just bought a HP PSC 1610 printer, a 12" power book and a airport base extreme.

Can you tell me step by step how I can share this printer with my 2 computers. When I plug the printer with the airport extreme using the USB cable, it doesn't work.

Thank you

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 4
    baranovichbaranovich Posts: 184member
    For starters, all the computers need to be connected to a network (either a wireless or wired one). It doesn't sound like its the case.
  • Reply 2 of 4
    regreg Posts: 832member
    According to this list your PSC 1610 is supported for printing only.

    http://www.efelix.co.uk/tech/1013.html

    Here is the step by step for your set up.

    http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107456

    Others have stil had problems and had to us the work around from maacosxhints

    http://www.macosxhints.com/article.p...30915050404405

    Make sure you have the printer drivers loaded on your machines and you should not have a problem.



    reg
  • Reply 3 of 4
    severine26severine26 Posts: 53member
    Thank you, it works on my laptop but not on my imac. Is it because my imac is not wireless? I can't connect my imac to the printer in using the USB cable because the USB plug of the printer is taken by the airport extreme. Can I buy some kind of USB T (2 plugs) for printer, in order to connect my desktop and the airport extreme (for my laptop) to the printer at the same time.

    Thank you for your help

    sev
  • Reply 4 of 4
    kingofsomewherehotkingofsomewherehot Posts: 4,179member
    just buy an airport card for thte iMac already!
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