Printing on OS X

[bboyroe]

I have an epson usb printer attached to my pc and i was wondering if it is possible to print to this printer from my ibook running OS X over my LAN, if so then how do i do it? Thanks in advance for any help

[Dazzla Veteran]

Surprisingly enough, USB printer sharing (at least that's what I think this is) isn't enabled in OS X 10.1.x. You are going to have to wait until Jaguar is released in september, I've tried USB printer sharing on this and it works fine.

Also, if the printer works fine directly connected to the iBook then in theory it should be automatically detected in the print centre, but like I said, if this is what USB printer sharing is, then it's not enabled.

[bboyroe]

So when i get jaguar i should be able to print to the printer attached to my pc over my network?

[Dazzla Veteran]

Yeah, definately. It's enabled in the beta's. I connected my HP to my XP laptop and networked my imac to it. It printed fine no probs.

[FlyerXL]

Slightly off-topic, but how is the jaguar beta?

[Dazzla Veteran]

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lol, just kidding ;)

It's not bad, there's quite a few cool things in there such as iChat, USB printer sharing. It's also much faster as well, but it is buggy, although it never got worse then an application crash, it's still worse then the current 10.1.4.

Mind you, I'm still yet to have anything even approaching a blue screen on any release, even jaguar.

Here's some screenshots:

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[Dazzla Veteran]

Have you tried Dave:

http://forums.macnn.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb...c;f=46;t=005889

[Wickedkitten Veteran]

don't quote me on this but I think if you connect the printer to your mac with either dave or another prog you can connect to it using your pc

[bboyroe]

i have tried using dave but it appears to only support pcs and other macs printing to the mac with dave installed on it, you cant print to a printer connected to your pc using dave, i would happily connect my printer to my mac but with it being the ibook i dont really want to leave it switched on. Plus I carry it around all the time. Looks like i will have to wait till the release of jaguar.