Help

I'm Running Mac OSX 10.3.1

I have a wireless network setup.

Attached to a Windows XP machine I have an HP LaserJet 1000.

I want to print from the Mac to the Laser jet.

On the XP machine I have printer sharing turned on.

On the MAC when I go into the printer setup.I have windows printing picked.
I choose network neghborhood and I can see the printer name there. I select
it.

Everything seems setup correctly and the machines can see each other. But
when I print from the MAC it act just as if it sent the job over. The
document disepears from the MAC queue as if it had printed. But on the
LaserJet nothing happens.

What am I missing?

Can someone direct me to a tutorial on how to make this work?

Beyond the printing I have the Windows/MAC filesharing working fine.

Regards,

Wayne

In article <YcOdnTceeeYSkSqiRVn-uA@comcast.com>,
"Wayne Happ" <whapp@comcast.net> wrote:

> Help
>
> I'm Running Mac OSX 10.3.1
>
> I have a wireless network setup.
>
> Attached to a Windows XP machine I have an HP LaserJet 1000.
>
> I want to print from the Mac to the Laser jet.
>
> On the XP machine I have printer sharing turned on.
>
> On the MAC when I go into the printer setup.I have windows printing picked.
> I choose network neghborhood and I can see the printer name there. I select
> it.
>
> Everything seems setup correctly and the machines can see each other. But
> when I print from the MAC it act just as if it sent the job over. The
> document disepears from the MAC queue as if it had printed. But on the
> LaserJet nothing happens.
>
> What am I missing?
>
> Can someone direct me to a tutorial on how to make this work?
>
> Beyond the printing I have the Windows/MAC filesharing working fine.
>

While Panther improves the Mac OS's ability to print to shared Windows
printers, there's still a missing link... unlike in Windows, where the
ability to print across the network is a system-wide ability, in all of
the Mac OS versions, it needs to be built into individual printer
drivers... as a result, even if you have HP's Mac driver for the LJ1000
installed, you won't be able to print, since HP hasn't put 'network
smarts' into its printer driver.

And network-smart drivers from the major manufacturers are rare...

But there's an open source solution-- Gimp-print
(http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/MacOSX.php3)

While it lists itself for Jaguar, it works fine w. Panther in my
experience. Download both the main Gimp-print download and the
Ghostscript download (at the same site)... when installed, it will add a
long list of drivers for the various major manufacturers.

I note, however, that the LJ 1000 is neither listed among the officially
supported models nor among the 'not officially supported but reported to
work with the listed driver' models... so some experimentation may be
required-- and it may not work to your satisfaction.

Good luck!