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).
Re: Printing from PC to MAC
Date: 2009-06-25 02:58 am (UTC)I didn't do anything to the Mac to put it in "Workgroup", but it seems to be there. That's how the PCs came and we didn't change that.
Dani's Mac is also on the network (same place as mine). Double-clicking on that doesn't generate a password prompt either. (He has a public directory that's showing up there.)
I suppose the worst-case scenario is that I move the printer cable between machines as necessary. I hope unplugging it from the Mac doesn't mess up the Mac, though; it took so long to get here that I'm afraid to mess with it.