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Sharing a printer connected to imac with windows

Mar 30, 2008 8:52PM PDT

My Epson Stylus Photo 1390 Printer is connected to imac 10.4.10. It is working fine with other macs. I want to connect the printer with my windows machines on the same network. I installed Bonjour on my PC and run the add printer wizard with Generic Postscript driver. As a result i am able to print A4 pages but in the list of layouts, i cannot find A3. So i cannot print on A3 pages.

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You might want to consider
Mar 31, 2008 1:13AM PDT

installing the real Windows drive for that printer, rather than use the Generic Postscript driver.

It may make a difference

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i had already installed the driver for that printer
Mar 31, 2008 4:16PM PDT

i had already installed the latest driver (downloaded from the internet) for that printer in all my windows machines. But then it stopped printing even A4 prints.

Is it because my printer driver on imac is not as new as that on windows?

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It's a possibility,
Mar 31, 2008 9:55PM PDT

so why not update that printer driver too?

At the worst it will rule out a driver old age problem

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I found the solution
Apr 1, 2008 2:59PM PDT

I finally found the solution, and now my windows can print wid full functionality.

Here's the procedure

1. On the Mac (the one that the USB printer that you want to share is connected to), go to the Sharing
preferences pane and ensure Printer Sharing and Windows Sharing are both turned on.
2. From your browser go to http://127.0.0.1:631 - this is the web interface to CUPS. When asked to
enter a password, login with your Mac OS X administrator account.
3. Go to the Printers tab and add a new printer (yes, in addition to any existing printer configuration
that already exist for the same printer). Choose a name that?s short and descriptive (no spaces).
Let?s call it ?windowsprinter?.
4. When asked to select a device, select USB printer.
5. You?ll be asked for a Device URI. To find out, open up a terminal and type lpinfo -v. You should see
your USB printer coming up. Mine came up as ?direct usb://Epson/Stylus Photo%201280?
serial=CN516851RPUN?. Copy and paste this (without the ?direct? part - i.e., I?d have copied
?usb://Epson/Stylus Photo%201280?serial=CN516851RPUN?) into the ?Device URI? field.
6. Select a ?Make? of ?Raw?. Keep going until the printer is added.
7. You?re done configuring from the Mac.
8. Now go to your Windows machine and add a new printer (Control Panel -> Printers and Faxes).
Select ?A network printer? ?. Don?t browse for the printer, you will enter its IP address directly in the
?URL? field. Enter ?http://your.macs.ip.address:631/printers/windowsprinter? (replacing
?your.macs.ip.address? with your Mac?s IP address and ?windowsprinter? with the short name you gave
your printer).
9. Now, all that?s left is to install the correct Windows printer driver on the Windows machine.

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A long solution, but if it works, who cares
Apr 1, 2008 9:48PM PDT

where did you get this information from?

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from here
Apr 3, 2008 8:35PM PDT
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(NT) Thanks
Apr 3, 2008 9:34PM PDT