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I have printer woes. We bought a new printer (an HP Officejet 6210) and hooked it up to DH's iMac (OSX 10.3.something). It prints beautifully from there. I installed the software on my PC (WinXP), and set it as my default printer. But when I tried to find the drivers, I was told that they did not exist. So I re installed the software, from the CD that came in the box, and still, the drivers do not appear in my list of available printer drivers.
The computer seems to think that it's printing just fine -- except it never gets to the part where it actually prints anything. It goes from "preparing job" to "sending job" to nothing.
Any ideas?
I never install the drivers that are on the CD. The ones that are available at the vendor's web site are usually newer.
Yeah, I installed a batch from the web site too. Except it's not that the drivers don't work, it's that they're not showing up on the list of drivers at all. I have no idea where the ones from the CD put themselves, and the ones from the website ended up in c:\\temp\\HP_WebRelease.
This probably insane, but could it be that because the printer's plugged into a Mac, I need to install the Mac drivers, even though I'm trying to print from a PC?
Did you turn on Windows sharing on the Mac? Is the Printer shared from the Mac?
Yep, that was the first thing I checked.
Googling seems to indicate that our may be the only Mac/Windows household set up this way -- there's tons of advice out there for how to get Macs to get along with Windows-attached printers, but practically nothing on the opposite situation. (Which makes sense, as Macs are far better at that sort of thing, but in our case, it just doesn't make sense to not put the printer in the office, with the Mac, where it'll get used every day.)
Clearly, the solution is to get me a Mac.
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Try using just a generic postscript driver.
Did. Didn't work.
The more I poke around, the more I don't think it's the driver after all. I think it's a network issue.
Is the printer connected to the network or to the Mac USB port? I've got an HP on my network that works with my Macs and PC's with no worries.
If it is on the Mac do you have the "share this printer" option turned on? Once I get home I'll have to check just where that setting is located.
