LAN printer warms up, but won't print
I had previously possted this in Current Hardware, but go no response except to suggest that this be posted here. Would not have guessed that this was a genius issue, but here goes.
My wife now has a Mac Mini (pre Intel version) running OSX 10.4.9. When she tries to print, our LAN printer starts its warm up routine, but won't print. We have a home LAN that is PC-centric, e.g., the one printer (Samsung ML-1710) on the lan is hooked to an XP Home machine.
She has tried to set up the printer which shows as a Samsung, but as a "generic postscript printer."
When she attempts to print, the printer whirs as usual as part of its "getting ready to print" procedure, but then does not print.
I suspect that it is because it is set up as a generic, rather than with it's proper drivers.
I have downloaded a printer driver from the Samsung site, but I cannot figure out how to install it.
We have experimented until we are blue in the face, but cannot get a page out of the printer.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
My wife now has a Mac Mini (pre Intel version) running OSX 10.4.9. When she tries to print, our LAN printer starts its warm up routine, but won't print. We have a home LAN that is PC-centric, e.g., the one printer (Samsung ML-1710) on the lan is hooked to an XP Home machine.
She has tried to set up the printer which shows as a Samsung, but as a "generic postscript printer."
When she attempts to print, the printer whirs as usual as part of its "getting ready to print" procedure, but then does not print.
I suspect that it is because it is set up as a generic, rather than with it's proper drivers.
I have downloaded a printer driver from the Samsung site, but I cannot figure out how to install it.
We have experimented until we are blue in the face, but cannot get a page out of the printer.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Comments
Try iFelix's guide
Any ideas?
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/pro....mspx?mfr=true
If there is a router between the computers you will also need to enable the 'bridge' mode.
It was able to print locally, so I moved the USB cable back to the PC and set it up under Windows Printing. Now back one step as the printer does not now go into the warm up routine. Just sits there.
At least the brick wall was moved a few feet and lowered a few feet.
I tried reinstalling the printer to print from the PC. It found the printer, but set it up as a generic postscript printer again, so I clicked on Show Info, and the info dialog box (d/b) has a top selection box with
Name & Location (which if I understand it, is just informational as to name and location)
Printer Model
Installation Options (which there do not appear to be any)
So clicking on Printer Model took me to the System screen showing the installer. When I clicked on that nothing happened, so I moved down to the desktop where the .dmg file was and clicked on that. It went away, but left a new option in the next selection box down the d/b which is called:
Local system V printer (whatever that is)
but it still doesn't print.
So it is clearly needing to find the installed driver or reinstall the driver for Windows Network printing and I don't think it has done either yet.
Any ideas at this new elevated stage of ptinting locally / not printing remotely?
Any ideas at this new elevated stage of ptinting locally / not printing remotely?
Does the Mac connect directly to the PC or is it through a router?
It connects through a router (D-Link DI-604)
The printer now prints perfectly directly (through the Mini's USB) and it is clear that this only happened after a long process that resulted in the correct drivers being installed.
Now trying again to print through the PC, and trying (apparently unsuccessfully) to again install the necessary driver (this time to drive the "Windows Printing" print option), it now will not even engage the printer enough to start it's warmup routine (as it did at the beginning of this exercise.)
At the start of this thread, I wondered if this should even be posted in a "genius" area. I am not very advanced, but in 38 years of personal computing (mostly PC), I am now ready to say that I have never encountered as difficult a print job problem (and this on a machine that supposedly is totally intuitive and manageable by children). Hopefully there is at least one "genius" here who can sort this.
Can anyone take a step back and perhaps get a new insight into what I need to do to get the printer driver installed for the purpose of printing though the PC? Thanks in advance.