Sharing Printers

I have my printer shared over my network. I have my network password protected, however I allow some friends to use my wireless connection. I have a laptop which I use to wirelessly print. I'm wondering if there's a way I can set a password for my shared printer. Any application that will allow me to do that? Any help on the matter would be appreciated. Thank you.

I know you can do this - but I haven't done it myself. You'll need to edit the CUPS config file /etc/cups/cupsd.conf. There's documentation in the file as well as at http://localhost:631 (Software Admin manual).

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  • Problem with multiple instances of shared printers being installed on client computers when the spooler service is started

    Hello,
    We have Windows Server 2012 and clients using Windows 8.  We've been having some printer problems for awhile now that I haven't been able to figure out for the life of me.  The main problem is the fact that printers are installed on computers automatically
    once the drivers are installed.  The side-effect of multiple instances of each printer showing up is very annoying but I suspect fixing the initial problem will resolve this secondary one.
    Here is the rundown:
    We add the shared printers on logon to the clients using the GPO thus installing the drivers locally.
    Whenever the spooler on the client is restarted with the drivers installed, all of the
    shared printers that were previously installed get duplicated 5 more times (for a total of 6 instances of each shared printer) on the "Devices and Printers" page.  This happens
    all the time.
    Removing them only fixes the issue temporarily, as soon as the spooler or computer is restarted, it seems these shared printers are somehow found on the network and the duplicates return.
    Two of these printers are located on different clients, installed locally and shared while the other three are all installed on a server and shared through it.  The issue is the same on all of them.
    Cleaning the spooler completely (registry and files from C:\system32\spool) fixes the issue temporarily as well since, as soon as the drivers are reinstalled, the issue occurs again.
    I've tried many things (disabling the GPO, editing the GPO, printer shares, registry, etc.) and searched tirelessly online for a cause and solution but I'm stumped.  Does anybody have any idea what might be causing this problem and how to resolve it?
    Thanks for your time!
    Update #1: I just tried adding the NoNetCrawling option in the registry found in this article -> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/320138/en-us
    I couldn't find the same for Windows 8 unfortunately.  I also tried disabling network discovery and all other sharing options to no avail.
    Update #2: I tried isolating the computer to a different subnet and restarting the spooler and, sure enough, the issue didn't occur.  This proves that the issue is network share related.  Also, as soon as I change the IP back to the regular domain
    subnet one, the multiple printer instances re-appeared again.
    Update #3: I just tried doing the same thing but on the server where the printers are installed and shared and, sure enough, despite being in a different subnet, the issue occurred.  This leads me to believe there is a setting on this server at fault.
     Question is, which one?

    We have deployed a brand new Active Directory domain for a customer. ALL the servers without exception are Windows 2012 R2 and all clients are Windows 8.1 32bit VDI clients.
    The issue that we have is around network printers. 
    We are deploying 4 printers  from a Windows 2012 R2 Server via the print management/Deploy Printer and assigning that to a GPO. The printers are deployed to the Computers which should mean that the users get all 4 printers which they then should be allowed
    to set their default and personal settings for that printer.
    Our printers are deployed like this:
    1. Created security group
    2. Assigned VDI computers to the security group
    3. Created GPO to reflect security group
    4. Modify GPO to do security filtering based on computer group membership
    5. Deployed 4 x printers through Print Management to the GPO on a per machine basis
    However, on the users Devices and Printers screen we are not seeing the 4 printers. For some users
    they see duplicates of all 4 printers so e.g they can have upwards of 8 or more. Other users have no printers displayed whatsoever. The next time they log off or restart they then have a different amount of printers displayed.
    If they try and set the default then it will set and the next time they check the default may have moved to another printer even without logging off or back on.
    Now, where this gets strange is within an application such as MS Word 2013 or Notepad if they use the file and print menu the printers will be listed, even if the user has no printers displayed in Devices and Printers. If the users selects a printer then they
    can then print OK.
    If we check HKCU\Printers||Connections then the CORRECT 4 printers are showing as to what is being deployed via the GPO so I know that the Windows 8.1 terminals are receiving the correct printers from the GPO.
    To try and correct this over the course of the week we have deployed the printers via Group Policy Preferences to the user and then the PC to no avail. Currently we are using the Print management\Deployed Printers to deploy all 4 printers to the computer via
    the Computer GPO.
    I believe that this issue is related to the display somehow in Devices and Printers rather than a GPO or print server issue as we can see via the registry the clients are receiving the 4 correct mentioned printers as shown in the registry. 
    FYI: We only have around 30 users and all users are getting this problem. All users are receiving the same GPO's and have the same few apps installed, Office 2013, Adobe Reader etc.
    What we want is for the computers to receive all 4 printers. All users should be able to use all 4 printers but the user should be able to select their particular default, depending where they are located or what they are printing that particular day. Their
    particular default should persist after reboot. (We have 2 x Copiers and 2 x HP Laserjets) All users have redirected documents and desktop but the rest of the profile is on the VDI and persists after their reboot. The profile is not roaming as the user is
    assigned a particular VDI.
    After a week of scratching our heads with this we are open to suggestions and any would be appreciated.
    We have tried following the issues on this thread to no avail either as they still return.

  • Group Policy To Delete Old Shared Printers That Are No Longer Shared

    I am having an issue where I am successfully using Group Policy to deploy some new printers. 
    (Computer Configuration > Policies > Windows Settings > Printer Connections > Use the Share name \\Server\Print_Shared_Name)
    but I have on those same desktops some old shared printers (\\Server\Old_Printer_Name). They are IP printers being shared off the server but this printer no longer exists on the server and the IP address is also no longer being used. Tried to use some group
    policies to delete the printer for the non-admin users but am having no luck with the printer being removed from the machine. The desktops are all Win7 Service Pack 1 and the Server is Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard
    Things I have tried:
    1. In my same working policy that I use to install the new printer I tried to add on the following
    (User Configuration > Preferences > Control Panel Settings > Printers > New > Shared Printer > Delete > For the share path I enter the old share path name that it shows but actually no longer works so \\Server\Old_Printer_Name)
    ^This did not work when I sign into the desktop as a non-admin user that has the printer still installed or as an admin that also had the printer installed, ran gpupdate, gpupdate /force, rebooted, restarted print spooler
    Tried the same steps above but with the following instead
    (Computer Configuration > Preferences > Control Panel Settings  > Printers > New > TCP/IP Printer > Delete > I then enter the \\Server\Old_Printer_Name IP Address that it used to use
    Same results
    2. I also tried to create a registry deletion policy still under this policy that installs the printer as follows:
    (Computer Configuration > Preferences > Windows Settings > Registry > 
    New > Registry Item > Delete > I used the following path: HKEY_CURRENT_USER for the hive and key path is Printers > Connections > Manually entered the key from the desktop for the printer I am trying to remove so ,,SERVER,Old_Printer_Name)
    ^This did not work when I sign into the desktop as a non-admin user that has the printer still installed or as an admin that also had the printer installed, ran gpupdate, gpupdate /force, rebooted, restarted print spooler
    3. I also ran a Group Policy Result and it says that it ran the policy just fine
    I've tried these steps and everything was case sensitive but have had no luck. Anything that anyone can suggest or if I am in the wrong area, please kindly point me in the right direction

    Hi,
    >>(Computer Configuration > Preferences > Windows Settings > Registry >
    New > Registry Item > Delete > I used the following path: HKEY_CURRENT_USER for the hive and key path is Printers > Connections > Manually entered the key from the desktop for the printer I am trying to remove so ,,SERVER,Old_Printer_Name)   
    For we are editing the registry hive under HKEY_CURRENT_USER, the setting should be User Configuration\ Preferences \Windows Settings \ Registry
    Best regards,
    Frank Shen

  • GPP Delete policy not working on Windows Server 2008 R2 RDS when deleting shared printers with status access denied.

    Hi!
    I Have one AD Security group for each shared printer, I have one GPP that map the printer if the user is in the security group that belong to the printer. And one GPP to delete the printer if the user is NOT member of the security group. The security group
    is also applied in “Security” tab on the printsrv with PRINT rights  and “everyone” is removed. This works 100 % on Windows 7 clients and Windows 2003 Terminal Servers. But on Windows 2008 R2 RDS this dont work.The Delete Policy will not delete the shared
    printer. No warning in any logs, and the gpresult shows that the gpo setting applyed sucessfully. The only way I can make the Delete policy work is if i give the user print rights on the printer on the printsrv. Looks like for the policy to work on 2008
    R2 the user must have print rights on the printer object on the printserver. The GPP Delete Policy will not delete printers that have status : access denied. Anyone else had this problem?

    Hi,
    Based on your description, it seems that we need to give users appropriate permissions, for the error
    Access is denied is more or less related to permissions.
    However, we can avoid deploying the GPP printer delete policy. As far as I know, we can use Item-Lvel Targeting of GPP to push the shared printers
    to the targeted users or groups.
    Regarding ILT, the following articles can be referred to for more information.
    Preference Item-Level Targeting
    http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc733022.aspx
    Security Group Targeting
    http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc772471.aspx
    Best regards,
    Frank Shen

  • Network shared printers stop working; default printer changes

    Hello,
    Have an odd printing issue that seems to be ongoing and am trying to come up with a good solution or fix for it.
    We have an environment that has a Windows 2012R2 Print Server, that is sharing various printers which are also set to List in Directory.  Some of the printers are HP and are using the HP Universal driver which shows as "True" for Packaged in
    the print management window, and some of the printers are Canon which are using device specific drivers and show as "False" for Packaged.  My understanding is that the packaged attribute simply indicates that Point and Print can then download
    the driver and install/use it without any security prompts whereas if it is not Packaged, then the driver must be installed on the local server/workstation by an Administrator.  We have Group Policy defined such that all Point and Print restrictions are
    Disabled.
    We then have multiple Remote Desktop Session Hosts based on Server 2008R2 (x64).  Users connect to these hosts via thin clients (Wyse) and there is a domain login script using KiXtart that creates printer connections to the shared printers using an address
    of \\printserver\printername.  We also set the default printer via the login script each time depending on user's group membership.
    Each part of this setup is on it's own routed VLAN subnet, so the Print Server is on 192.168.0.x/24, RDSHs are on 192.168.1.x/24 and the printers themselves are on 192.168.2.x/24.  There is no firewall or other restrictions between the subnets, all traffic
    is allowed to flow.
    The issue we are having is two parts, the first is the larger issue, but both are a pain:
    1) Randomly (no discernible pattern/reason/timeframe), some Canon printers will stop appearing in Print dialog boxes from applications when a user tries to print.  It only seems to happen on the Canon printers.  The printer will still show in Control
    Panel -> Devices and Printers, but when you right click it and try to go to Printer Properties or view any of the printer settings, you'll get an error saying the printer is not accessible/valid.  I have also tried a WMI query for "select * from
    win32_printer" and the printer will not be returned.  To temporarily fix it, we right click the printer, and choose to remove it and then go through the wizard to re-add the same printer from the directory again.  That will correct it and the
    user can print again, view all properties, etc.  This doesn't happen to every user but happens sporadically and once it happens to a user it seems to pop up once every week or two.
    Now, we have made a change and installed the Canon printers in question locally on the Remote Desktop Session Hosts themselves using TCP/IP ports so that each user logging into the session host will see all of the printers.  This also seems to have resolved
    this issue.  So it leads me to think there is some sort of timeout or connection getting dropped, but for no real apparent reason.  This is all on a virtualized platform and so the Print Server and Session Hosts have very reliable LAN connections
    amongst themselves.  And further, we never see the issue with the HP printers, they seem to maintain their stability at all times.
    2) The other issue we are seeing is that from time to time the default printer setting changes or vanishes altogether.  It doesn't happen to every user but once it does happen it happens regularly (multiple times a day).  This happens even when using
    the locally mapped TCP/IP printer or when using the network print server.  From what I have read and found, this generally seems to be a known issue regarding redirected client printers and some GP settings related thereto.  But we aren't redirecting
    any local client printers, everything is network based/shared.
    In digging into these two issues I have run across the following error we get regularly in the PrintService Event Viewer log:
    The print spooler failed to import the printer driver that was downloaded from \\printserver\print$\x64\PCC\ntprint.inf_amd64_59246c3ac1bd3f2a.cab into the driver store for driver Microsoft enhanced Point and Print compatibility driver. Error code= 800f024b.
    This can occur if there is a problem with the driver or the digital signature of the driver.
    And digging further into that seems to be that their was an error validating one of the DLL files as seen at the following thread:  http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/9fe186e4-52f7-4552-a223-b2320cfc9ed5/driver-install-semi-fails-with-800f024b?forum=winserverprint
    We get the exact same error that is shown there UNISRV.DLL being flagged as invalid, and have applied the hotfix indicated in KB2701894.
    I am not sure the above error is realted to the issues at hand, but figured it is a good starting point to eliminate it as a potential cause of the issue.
    Any input or suggestions on what to do to diagnose or further resolve this would be greatly appreciated!

    Alan, I'm getting this error 600 in my company. Is there any fix for this problem?
    After installing KB2919355 on Windows 2012 R2, when I try to map a shared printer I receive the following error message: A policy is in effect on your computer which prevents you from connecting to this print queue. Please contact your system administrator.
    If I uninstall the patch the shared printer maps correctly.
    I also notice that if I copy the driver \\server\print$\x64\PCC\ntprint.inf_amd64_a7ac65d1b7714fb1.cab
    from a Windows 2012 R2 before applying KB2919355 to the server that has the patch applyed (and rename it), I can map the printer.
    Does anyone know if there is a fix for that?

  • Issue w/ shared printers and multiple copies

    I just bought a Samsung ML-2010 today to replace my aging HP LaserJet 5L. The printer works fine (albeit rather noisily) except for one issue: I can't get it to print multiple copies of a document; if I specify multiple copies, I always get a single copy. I have downloaded the latest driver from Samsung's web site.
    Has anyone experienced this? If so, have you found a solution?
    Update: It appears to be a problem with shared printers. I have the printer connected to a wireless print server. When I share the printer through my desktop machine (so that I can queue long jobs on the desktop and put my PowerBook to sleep) , I have the issue. When I print directly to the print server from my PowerBook, multiple copies work just fine.

    Never mind. I have no idea how I fixed it, but multiple copies are now working when the printer is shared by my desktop machine.

  • Can't Add Shared Printers in Leopard!

    Leopard's shared printer support has been very poor for me. I have a Brother HL-2040 and a Dymo label printer hooked up to an iMac and under Tiger, any Mac on the network could print to either of them. Since upgrading both my iMac and MacBook Pro to Leopard, things have been very different. For the first few weeks, I had to keep "adding" the printers, because they would keep disappearing from the list of available printers. I'd click "add" and it would find the drivers and away we'd go. It was a 20 second process that was a little annoying but I could live with it.
    However, in the last day or two, things have deteriorated. Now, when I click "add" (either from the print dialog box or from the Print/Fax System preference) it seems to look for a driver, and can't find one. So I type the printer model name into the search box and it finds it. I click on it and click "add" but it gives me an error, saying that the printer could not be added.
    So both shared printers appear (via Bonjour presumably) as available, but error out when I try to add them.
    If anyone has any workarounds I'd love to hear them. For now I have to plug the printers directly into my MacBook whenever I want to use them.

    Plug the Dymo into your computer directly and print a label. That will load the drivers. You can then add it successfully via Bonjour. What you want to see however is a 'Bonjour Shared' printer when you add - if the Labelwriter only shows up a as shared printer it won't work in my experience.
    The problem turned out to be that if you're connected via a base station you need one that supports multi-cast for Bonjour to work correctly. This drove me crazy until I finally ended up buying a Belkin to replace the Zyxel. Printing to the shared Labelwriter works perfectly now.

  • Sharing printers in Windows Vista

    Sharing printers in Windows Vista:
    http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-us/help/e3faee7d-a7cd-40aa-b240-006dca11dc451033.mspx
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    Hello,
    I have followed the instruction to set my HP Photosmart C7250 for sharing but when I get to the dropdown to select turn on printer sharing I get the error message:
    Printer settings could not be saved. Operation could not be completed (error 0x0000007a).
    What does this mean and what should I do to fix it?
    thanks,
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  • How to you "publish" Bonjour Shared printers using Workgroup Manager?

    Dear Friends,
    Hello. We have just spend considerable time setting up Mac OS X 10.6.4 server to host some printers to our Mac clients (previously we had used a Windows print server but it was too slow and inflexible). We have the printers we need set-up and shared out as Bonjour Shared printers because that sends out all of the duplex setting we need. I have tried to "publish" these using Workgroup Manager and they do not show up on the list. How do you "publish" these printers using WGM? NOT: We can't just let people select "nearby" printers because we want to set a default and use kerberos security.

    Eric T Gadsby wrote:
    Anthony,
    Thank you for you help. The procedure you outline is what we have attempted to do. We add the Bonjour-shared printers to a client and then open Work Group Manager on the same computer but when you go to the "Printing" pane of "Preferences" the printers do not show under "Available Printers", neither do USB printers.
    Hope this clarifies our problem. We would like to use Work Group Manager as advertised but it doesn't seem to be working for us.
    Welcome to my world…
    This 'bug' has existed for several major versions of Mac OS X Server (10.6, 10.5, and maybe 10.4). I did report it more than once to Apple as an official bug but they don't seem to 'get it' despite my best efforts.
    You can do the following
    Add a printer directly to a computer running WGM,
    Then use WGM to 'push' the printer out to clients,
    The model of the printer will then also be pushed out to clients so they automatically select the correct driver but not the correct paper tray/duplex/etc. settings.
    You can do the following
    Add a Mac OS X Printer Server queue to the computer running WGM (which must not be the same computer acting as the Mac OS X Printer Server) if you do this via the Bonjour advertisement of the queue then it will not get the model, or any settings from the print server.
    You can then push this queue out to clients via WGM
    You cannot do the following
    Add a Mac OS X Printer Server queue to the computer running WGM (which must not be the same computer acting as the Mac OS X Printer Server) if you do this via IPP, then the WGM machine will get the model automatically, but not any paper tray/duplex settings.
    However this queue cannot then be seen in WGM and therefore cannot be pushed out to clients.
    Apparently doing custom XML, would allow also pushing out printer settings, but this is so far from 'the Macintosh Way' that only a masochist would do it.
    This area is one of the few where the Mac is significantly worse than Windows, it is an area that Microsoft (mostly) sorted literally decades ago. Not only in the Windows world can you push the printer model, and the printer settings, but you can even if needed push the entire printer driver out to the (Windows) clients.

  • Printing From iBook To Printer on a Vista, Can't see Vista shared printers

    Printing From iBook To Printer on Windows Vista Desktop, Can't see shared printer on a Vista machine from a Mac, although Windows notebooks find it immediately. When same machine is booted into XP the priners share perfectly with both of my iBooks, but when the same machine is booted into Vista with the printer shared etc, the iBooks don't see the printer. Other Windows machines on the newtork do see the shared printers in Vista.
    I have previously always had success sharing printers on Windows XP machines with my iBooks. . However upon installing Vista on my desktop I find I can no longer find the printer in the Mac's printer setup utility. When I dual boot back to XP everything works fine, but on the same machine when I boot into Vista I am unble to see the printers. The Mac printer setup utility finds the Vista machine on the network, but the printers are never visible. Is their some secret or channge in Vista that prevents Mac's running , in my case,Tiger 10.4.8 from seeing a shared printer on a computer running Vista
    On the Vista machine, if I boot into XP The printer is shared and Windows notebooks can print to it, but neither of my iBooks can see the Printers when Vista is running.
    ibook G4 1.33ghz 12, 1.42ghz 14 Mac OS X (10.4.8) 1gig ram,

    Some good resources:
    http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10877_11-6174109.html
    http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=4305954&#4305954
    http://www.microsoft.com/technet/network/evaluate/vista_fp.mspx
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    PowerBook G4s   Mac OS X (10.4.9)   Windows XP & Windows Vista Boxes

  • Printing From iBook To Printer on Vista Desktop, Cant see shared printers

    Printing From iBook To Printer on Windows Vista Desktop, Can't see shared printer on a Vista machine from a Mac, although Windows notebooks find it immediately.
    I have previously always had success sharing printers on Windows XP machines with my iBooks. . However upon installing Vista RC1 on my desktop I find I can no longer find the printer in the Mac's printer setup utility. When I dual boot back to XP everything works fine, but on the same machine when I boot into Vista I am unble to see the printers. The Mac printer setup utility finds the Vista machine on the network, but the printers are never visible. Is their some secret or channge in Vista that prevents Mac's running , in my case,Tiger 10.4.8 from seeing a shared printer on a computer running Vista
    On the Vista machine, if I boot into XP The printer is shared and Windows notebooks can print to it, but neither of my iBooks can see the Printers when Vista is running.
    ibook G4 1.33ghz 12, 1.42ghz 14 Mac OS X (10.4.8) 1gig ram,

    That might have been the situation for the beta's and first RC's, but I have a final build. Plus the fact that other Windoze notebooks see the printer on the Vista box just fine leads one to believe it is a mac/Vista specific issue.
    If anyone actually has experience with a MAC and Vista , I would appreciate hearing from you.
    thanks,

  • Printing From iBook To Printer on Vista Desktop, Can't see shared printers

    Printing From iBook To Printer on Windows Vista Desktop, Can't see shared printer on a Vista machine from a Mac, although Windows notebooks find it immediately.
    I have previously always had success sharing printers on Windows XP machines with my iBooks. . However upon installing Vista RC1 on my desktop I find I can no longer find the printer in the Mac's printer setup utility. When I dual boot back to XP everything works fine, but on the same machine when I boot into Vista I am unble to see the printers. The Mac printer setup utility finds the Vista machine on the network, but the printers are never visible. Is their some secret or channge in Vista that prevents Mac's running , in my case,Tiger 10.4.8 from seeing a shared printer on a computer running Vista
    On the Vista machine, if I boot into XP The printer is shared and Windows notebooks can print to it, but neither of my iBooks can see the Printers when Vista is running.

    That might have been the situation for the beta's and first RC's, but I have a final build. Plus the fact that other Windoze notebooks see the printer on the Vista box just fine leads one to believe it is a mac/Vista specific issue.
    If anyone actually has experience with a MAC and Vista , I would appreciate hearing from you.
    thanks,

  • Epson shared printers- can't control print quality

    Hi someone,
    We have an espon stylus photo 1280, and an epson stylus photo R200.
    Both are connected to one Intel iMac via USB.
    We have 2 other Macs - one iMac G5, and Mac mini G5 which are sharing these printers. All have the latest Tiger OS 10.4.6.
    They print fine, but the problem we're having is that the 2 computers which are using the printers via the network do not have access to Epson's special utilities when in the print dialogue screen - ie: they cannot change the print quality, paper stock, black vs colour etc. when just about to print.
    The only one that does have access to Epson's controls is the one which is connected via USB.
    We also can not see the printers from the other 2 macs in the Printer Browser when searching for them using appletalk, or epson appletalk etc....only in the Default Browser as "Shared Printers"
    Does this have something to do with it?
    How can we get the 2 Macs which are using the printers as "shared printers" access to the epson print options?
    thanks!
    Intel iMac, iMac g5, Mac mini   Mac OS X (10.4.6)  

    Are your printers "networked" as in using ethernet, or are they simply shared, using the OSX shared printers feature? I think it makes a difference.
    I had a similar problem. My printer, an Epson 1280 is connected to mu iMac G4 via USB, and is shared by my MacBook Pro. I was unable to access the Epson print utility features that allow setting quality, borderless prints, etc. I contacted Epson and they sent me the following fix. it took care of the problem. I can change the settings from either the primary iMac or from the shared printer on the Laptop.
    To correct the issue you are experiencing, we will perform a complete
    removal of the files and reinstall the driver.
    REMOVE FILES
    1. Double click on the MAC HARD DRIVE
    2. Double click on the LIBRARY folder
    3. Double click on the PRINTERS folder
    4. Drag the EPSON folder to the trash can
    NOTE If you receive an access denied error message, this indicates that
    you do not have root access. You will need to contact Apple for assistance
    on obtaining Root Access.
    1. Insert your 10.4 CD/DVD, double click on the CD/DVD icon on your
    desktop.
    2. Double click SYSTEM > INSTALLATION > PACKAGES > EPSON PRINTER
    DRIVERS.PKG
    Follow the prompts for the installation, restart your Mac when complete
    Please follow the steps below to install the resident driver for your
    printer in OS 10.4:
    1. Make sure that your printer is turned on and connected to your computer.
    2. Open your PRINTER SETUP UTILITY. This is found in HARD DRIVE,
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    DELETE. Once they are all gone Click ADD, then MORE PRINTERS at the bottom
    of the printer browser.
    4. In the window that appears, select EPSON USB from the drop-down menu at
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    PAGE SETUP select ALL, and then hit ADD.
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    steps below.
    After you have installed your printer driver for OS 10, you will need to do
    the following to add extra paper features such as borderless printing
    options:
    1. Go to Printer Setup Utility (found in HD > Applications > Utilities).
    Delete any existing references to the Epson printer from the list.
    2. Go to Add. Select Epson USB for a USB printer or Epson Firewire for a
    Firewire-connected printer.
    3. Highlight the printer name when it appears under Product. Under "Page
    setup" use the up-down arrows and select ALL.
    4. Click Add. The new printer options will now be added to the Printer
    list; you will see the printer name numerous times with different paper
    selections attached. (If you are unable to see the full description you
    will need to extend the name category.)
    5. Highlight the printer name/feature which you wish to use (For example,
    "Stylus Photo 2200 (Sheet feeder-Borderless)") and make it the default.
    Close Printer Setup Utility.
    6. Ensure Classic is not running. Open an OS X application and the file you
    wish to print.
    Setting up borderless prints in an OS X application (NOTE: not all
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