Mac frustration

[cellio]

It'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).

Comments

[sethg]

FWIW, I have an LaserJet 1020 and I can print to it from Linux. Maybe there's some shim to make the hplip drivers work on a Mac?

[mbarr.livejournal.com]

Shouldn't be that hard-

a quick google turned up:

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=376544

See if that helps.

Printing from PC to MAC

[tc-tick.livejournal.com]

On my windows machine I have to go to network places/entire network/microsoft network/mac name and login as guest/no password. After that the printer works fine until I reboot one of the machines.

I also have problems sometimes if the mac is rebooted that I have to reselect printer sharing (turn off/on) to get it working again.