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From: Michael Breslau on 24 Jun 2008 15:30 Windoze XP - wired ethernet - iMac 10.5.3. - Canon IP4500 printer Latest printer drivers from Canon on all computers Bonjour client from Apple on the PC If I print from the XP box, nothing comes out of the printer. Out of desperation, I configured another printer on the PC, this time using the default Postscript driver (written by HP it turns out) This actually works very well, but I loose all my special functions like duplex printing. Scanning the internet reveals the cross-platform printing is fraught with problems... Question: Can anyone suggest a Postscript printer driver for the PC that is code compatible with the special features if the IP4500? thanks, Mike
From: Michael Breslau on 25 Jun 2008 15:32 In article <vilain-833C74.23383024062008(a)comcast.dca.giganews.com>, Michael Vilain <vilain(a)NOspamcop.net> wrote: > In article <mbreslau-BBE0E3.15295924062008(a)news.speakeasy.net>, > Michael Breslau <mbreslau(a)speakeasy.org> wrote: > > > Windoze XP - wired ethernet - iMac 10.5.3. - Canon IP4500 printer > > Latest printer drivers from Canon on all computers > > Bonjour client from Apple on the PC > > > > If I print from the XP box, nothing comes out of the printer. > > > > Out of desperation, I configured another printer on the PC, this time > > using the default Postscript driver (written by HP it turns out) > > This actually works very well, but I loose all my special functions like > > duplex printing. > > > > Scanning the internet reveals the cross-platform printing is fraught > > with problems... > > > > Question: Can anyone suggest a Postscript printer driver for the PC > > that is code compatible with the special features if the IP4500? > > > > thanks, > > Mike > > This is an inkjet printer. Where are you getting that this is has a > postscript interpret in it? Typically, inkjets don't have postscript. > It adds to the cost of the printer. The Canon site for this printer is > > http://www.usa.canon.com/consumer/controller?act=ModelInfoAct&fcategoryid > =184&modelid=15596#ModelDetailAct > > There are XP drivers for it. From the spec, it's a USB printer with no > ethernet or networking capability. Are you sure you have the right > printer spec here? The page doesn't say anything about this being a > network printer. > > Rather than pull your hair out (if you have any) further, why not setup > a SAMBA shared printer with the thing attached to the iMac? > > Do you expect this group to be very effective at answering a XP printer > question? Why not try the XP groups? You'll get more help there. If you read my post, You'd see that a postscript printer driver worked, whereas the correct Cannon driver failed... The worst art is that the Canon driver worked fine EXCTLY ONCE and never again... I'm posting to a Macintosh group because I abhor Windows and its groups... MIke
From: Kadin2048 on 25 Jun 2008 23:51 On 2008-06-24, Michael Breslau <mbreslau(a)speakeasy.org> wrote: > Windoze XP - wired ethernet - iMac 10.5.3. - Canon IP4500 printer > Latest printer drivers from Canon on all computers > Bonjour client from Apple on the PC > [...] > Question: Can anyone suggest a Postscript printer driver for the PC > that is code compatible with the special features if the IP4500? > > thanks, > Mike If I understand your setup correctly, you have the Canon printer (which is USB) hooked up to the Mac, and then you are using OS X's Printer Sharing feature to let the Windows machine print to it. /Assuming/ this is the case, it makes sense that the Postscript driver works, while the normal USB printer driver doesn't. That's normal behavior for *any* printer that's shared using OS X's Printer Sharing feature. The way Printer Sharing works is by having the Mac expose the shared printer as a generic Postscript device on the network. This is done because Postscript is sort of the linga franca of printing; it doesn't matter what platform you're running, chances are it can produce Postscript somehow. You don't need to worry about having or installing drivers on the client machines this way -- you just use either a generic PostScript driver, or Apple's LaserWriter (which was a Postscript printer) driver. WHen the Mac sharing the printer gets a Postscript document to print, it then translates it into a format the printer can understand (using the printer's proprietary driver or CUPS, usually) and sends it to be printed. So anyway, this was just a long-winded way of saying that I think the behavior you're seeing is perfectly normal, and in other situations really desirable (imagine if you had a printer that didn't have Windows drivers, somehow). As for using the advanced features of the printer, I'm not really sure it'll be possible. I'm just not sure that Printer Sharing passes that sort of stuff to the actual printer. At least I've never gotten it to work. The only driver I can think of that you might want to try, besides the HP generic-Postscript one, is an Apple LaserWriter driver. I think they're included by default in WinXP. YOu can try the regular LW, LWII and LW Color, and see if any of them give you duplexing options. (The only LW I'm aware of that did duplexing was the 8500 and I can't remember whether it used its own driver or just the LW driver.) If the Apple drivers don't let you do duplexing, I'd assume it's not possible with that configuration. Your next-best option might be to connect the printer directly to the computer you need to do the most advanced-feature (i.e. duplex) printing on, and then share it with the other one. OF course, that involves using the Windows machine as a print server, which may be ugly. Good luck, Kadin.
From: Michael Breslau on 26 Jun 2008 14:57 In article <_r6dne4GadS1j_7VnZ2dnUVZ_uednZ2d(a)comcast.com>, Kadin2048 <Kadin(a)address.invalid> wrote: > On 2008-06-24, Michael Breslau <mbreslau(a)speakeasy.org> wrote: ....> > Good luck, > Kadin. Thank you very much - that was the information I hoped to get when I posted my query. MIke
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