Mac frustration
Jun. 22nd, 2009 10:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cellioIt's a lovely machine in many ways, but if I can't figure out how to print from it, it's going to be rather limited.
I have an HP LaserJet 1020, which apparently does not work natively with the Mac. I first tried to just share it from my PC, but that doesn't work -- at best I can get jobs to appear to queue from the Mac but go nowhere. These instructions were written for Tiger but I did basically the same stuff (the UI has changed). The Mac doesn't have a driver and won't even let me select one I downloaded (see next step), and "generic postscript" doesn't work. So then I moved the printer to the Mac and followed these instructions, which gets me as far as a job showing up in the print queue on the Mac and never printing. (But hey, on the way it showed me a picture of my printer, so it knows something.) Whee.
I don't care which machine it's connected to so long as I can print from both. Currently I can print from neither. I guess Apple tech support is my next stop. Sigh.
Edit: fixed on the Mac side (Windows can't print to it via the network yet).
I have an HP LaserJet 1020, which apparently does not work natively with the Mac. I first tried to just share it from my PC, but that doesn't work -- at best I can get jobs to appear to queue from the Mac but go nowhere. These instructions were written for Tiger but I did basically the same stuff (the UI has changed). The Mac doesn't have a driver and won't even let me select one I downloaded (see next step), and "generic postscript" doesn't work. So then I moved the printer to the Mac and followed these instructions, which gets me as far as a job showing up in the print queue on the Mac and never printing. (But hey, on the way it showed me a picture of my printer, so it knows something.) Whee.
I don't care which machine it's connected to so long as I can print from both. Currently I can print from neither. I guess Apple tech support is my next stop. Sigh.
Edit: fixed on the Mac side (Windows can't print to it via the network yet).
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Date: 2009-06-23 12:24 pm (UTC)Last night in a round of "this is the definition of insanity" I tried repeating the steps. Obviously I did something differently, because now the printer connected to the Mac works. (Can't get Windows to use it remotely yet, but I'll deal with that later.) I think the difference might have been that after installing the driver, I disconnected the printer before rebooting. When it booted with the printer already attached and then configured it, it didn't work. When I rebooted and then attached the printer (after having installed the driver), Leopard just found and auto-configured it. Weird.