RE: Mac - Windows Printers

["Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Now *THAT* sounds exactly like the kind of info "we" needed
yesterday
morning ...

... hopefully Rob will see this now and hopefully he'll now be able to find
the drivers that we were trying to find yesterday!

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Ho yin Ng
> Sent: 16 April 2006 10:10
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Mac - Windows Printers
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> All non-Apple printer drivers should install to
> /Library/Printers/PPDs/Contents/Resources,
> and within that last directory should be a number of subs for
> the various language localizations - select whichever is
> approriate, and you should then find a list of installed
> drivers for all the various makes (other than Apple whose
> drivers can be found in /System/
> Library/...)
>
> Note - these are NOT in the users ~/Library tree! The only
> entries there will be those specifically configured for the
> individual user, and will be named according to the specific
> printer, not according to the generic printer type.
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> Does that help?
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> Ho yin
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> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Phil Harris
> Sent: 15 April 2006 18:11
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Mac - Windows Printers
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> Exactly - we sat for a good couple of hours this morning
> trying to get this working...
>
> ...we could *SEE* the printers on the network...
>
> ...we could get data to squirt to them...
>
> ...the problem was the drivers, they weren't in the Apple
> printer drivers list so we downloaded the printer drivers
> from HP, ran the driver install programs which helpfully said
> "You have successfully installed the printer driver for the
> HP blahdeblahdeblah" (and on running it a second time it said
> "You have already installed the printer driver for the HP
> blahdeblahdeblah") but quite unhelpfully it gave no
> indication of exactly *WHERE* it might have decided to put
> the bloody drivers when it installed them!
>
> Nothing new appeared in the installed drivers list.
>
> Phil
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
> > Of Rob Mouser
> > Sent: 15 April 2006 17:33
> > To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> > Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Mac - Windows Printers
> >
> > Oh yes Chris, it all reads great in theory! Believe me I've
> read pages
> > and pages of such. I've also read pages and pages of forum
> posts that
> > describe the whole darn thing as a black art!
> >
> > As my post says I CAN see the printers, I can connect to
> them I just
> > cant add to the driver list!
> >
> > I'm going to try Ians suggestion once I can find a long USB
> cable as I
> > cant be ars*d to take them out of the rack!
> >
> > Macs running Windows?........BRING IT ON! Cool design and a
> functional
> > OS :-) (Oooops that should get the flames roaring :-))
> >
> > Rob
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