Bonjour windows prints garbage

Hello,
I have bonjour in windows xp connected to my HP psc 2410 that is attached to my Airport express.
I accepted the default driver generic/pcl
I get garbage printing no matter what driver I select.
I am running windows xp in parallels.
Thanks
Frank

I resolved this my hooking the printer to my pc and installing the drivers.

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I have posted about this before, about my own success in getting Windows 7 laptops to print via Bonjour through an Airport Extreme. I thought I had it all figured out. However, yesterday I replaced my older model Airport Extreme (first generation 1102.n) with the most current model (considered 5th generation). I configured the new Airport Extreme via Airport utility which allowed me to copy the exact settings of the old one. Everything appeared to work fine until I tried to print from my HP laptop running Windows 7. This laptop printed to our Canon Pixma MP490 (the Canon is hooked up via USB to the Extreme) via the older Airport Extreme and Bonjour without any problem. Interestingly, I had no problem installing the printer on the laptop using Bonjour--it shows it and appears to be in proper configuration. I correctly put the Extreme's IP address as 10.0.1.1 as I have done before. When I try to print, the dialogue box appears and shows the Canon 490 ready to go, but when I click to print, nothing happens, nothing appears in the que for the Canon printer. I have tried the usual remedies, deleting and reinstalling the printer, restarting the Extreme and the laptop itself. It just doesn't want to talk to the printer. Any thoughts are appreciated. I have done extensive web searching without any new ideas.

The cover page of the following document is unprintable. You get an error message saying "no pages selected" if you start with page 1. You can only print the report if you avoid page 1 and start on page 2. I do not have problems with any other PDF documents.
http://www.bcauditor.com/files/publications/2011/report_4/report/OAGBC-Environmental-Asses sment-Office.pdf
I'm using Windows XP and a Laserjet 1000. This problem occurs with both Adobe Reader X or Foxit Reader 4.1.1.8005
Similar problems have been posted on http://forums.adobe.com/thread/392800
So it must be something peculiar about the way the cover page is designed.
Name: Jim Ronback

Bonjour Printer installs OK but prints garbage symbols

I have installed Bonjour 1.0.4 on a fresh installation of Windows XP SP2. It installed fine and bonjour already had my printer in its list of drivers (HP DeskJet 815c), so set up was easy (I have my printer plugged into an airport express which my windows machine connects to over the LAN).
My mother's iMac printed to the printer fine over the LAN.
The Windows machine printed garbage instead of a nice simple A4 page of black & white. It prints garbage symbols, one or two lines a page and was going to go for many pages instead of just one.
I never restarted after installing either Bonjour or the printer but I wasn't prompted to.
Any suggestions on what I might do? Would the generic printer drivers be worth a go?

Hi
Try the drivers from the link below on the windows 8.1 unit
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareCategory?os=4158&lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en&sw_lang=&product=4204...
Hope this helps.
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DO you need Bonjour for printing on Windows?

I'm just wondering if Windows PCs connected to the AIrport Extreme need to have Bonjour to print? On our Macs there is no problem. We see the printer as a Bonjour printer. The problem is that we have a lot of clients who come to our office who have PCs and we don't want to tell them that they have to install Bonjour on their laptops just to print. Any ideas?

No you don't. But since AEBS doesn't have DNS support, you will need some kind of name resolution in order to find the printer (or any service) on your network. Bonjour for windows provides this function. If you insist on not installing it, you can assign a static IP address to your network printer, and use this fixed IP address when you add a new printer.

Printing via Bonjour to Windows printer

Can I use Bonjour to print from a Mac to a shared printer that is USB connected to a Windows Vista PC? If so could someone kindly point me in the right direction as to how to do it please.
I set up a Bonjour printer on the Windows PC and printer properties tell me this printer isn't suitable for sharing. This seems a rather bad start! Next when I try and add this printer to the Mac there is no Bonjour option in Snow Leopard's System Preferences > Print & Fax > Add Printer.
Any advice will be gratefully received. Thank you very much.

Hi Irbrenda I remember you from http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=10331377#10331377 not a million years ago!
The Printfab driver works a treat for me - it's just I don't want to buy it. I am presently using a trial version which expires in 30 days after which I either cough up 49 Euros or it will deface all my print outs with "pay up you measly creature you know it's worth every penny." Actually I'm not sure what 49 Euros comes to in £'s (or even US$'s for that matter) but it's more than I want to spend on a printer that I thought would seamlessly network out of the box.
The man on the phone at Canon said they "don't support cross platform drivers, particularly for a model that has no pretence of network capability, try Bonjour mate". However I'm beginning to think Bonjour is not going to crack it as I think it works for Windows printing to Mac printers and not the other way round. This new post was to see if anyone would correct or confirm this.
So my choices would seem to be:
Transport print jobs from Mac to Windows on a memory stick or network them across and then print them with Windows - an inelegant solution to engage in personal perambulation of this sort in the 21st century.
Give Printfab 49 Euros - painful to contemplate, I'm a frugal kind of guy.
Maybe try a USB print server from eBay - ditto the frugal guy story.
Slash my wrists - nah, life is sweet really. Yes Irbrenda, don't forget that, life is sweet, don't self harm re this or even trash your machinery.
Unless, of course someone out there has another idea maybe involving Bonjour.

Printing w/Leopard & AD-based Windows Print Queues:

For those interested, I have written an overview of printing in Leopard 10.5.0 to Windows print servers (published queues Active Directory). Your mileage may vary. This document contains the good the bad and the ugly.
Objective:
Get Leopard based Macs to print to AD published SMB print queues hosted on Windows 2003 print servers. Sounds easy, huh?
Overview:
Print Servers:
Windows 2003 print servers.
Printers:
All the printers in my test were all new HP network b/w printers or network MFP b/w printers. All of them were less than 2 years old. None of them were consumer-grade home USB printers.
Mac Clients:
My test clients were Intel MacBook Pros and Intel iMacs running 10.5.0 Leopard. All of them had user AD accounts and all Macs were bound to AD using Directory Utility (or dsconfigad)
The AD clients have a unique naming convention at my company. In my environment we use the initials of the person for their login name (SAM). Example:
Real “human” Name: “Stephen Paul Jobs”
Long Active Directory Name: “Steve Jobs”
Short Active Directory Name: “spj”
“Legacy” NT Names: “domain\spj”
Full domain name (used for email etc): “[email protected]”
(you get the idea...)
Note: My Mac clients are not in an Open Directory domain. No “Magic Triangle” in this environment. Pure AD for the sake of this example. I am not managing the Mac clients via MCX in this scenario.
Print Protocols:
All the print queues hosted on the print servers were standard SMB/CIFS print queues. The syntax (UNC) looks like this:
smb://print_server.domain/queue
(This syntax is invisible to most users printing to AD-published printers (or any network based printer really) . Most users will have no idea what protocols are being used.)
Procedures:
Part 1: Set up a new printer from an existing AD-published print queue:
From the Apple menu select “System Preferences...” (or launch it from /Applications). The Printer Setup Utility app no longer exists. Apple has discontinued it fro various reasons.
Click on the Printer & Fax pane.
Click the “+” button on the left. This will launch the Apple Printer Browser (called “AddPrinter”, and lives in /System/Library/CoreServices), which looks similar to the previous browser in Tiger. The Printer Browser by default will usually show network printers vai Directory Services (AD/OD etc) as well as Bonjour printers and Mac OS X based shared printers – if they are shared via IPP and LPR under certain circumstances).
Select the desired AD-published print queue you want to print to by highlighting it in the browser list and clicking the “Add” button. (Note: Print queues published via Active Directory will show up as “Open Directory” printers, even though this is not 100% technically correct.)
Before the queue will be added, you will be prompted to authenticate as a local administrator. If you are not an admin you are screwed. Enter your name and password.
Once the print queue is added, it will show up on your Mac in several ways (barring any bugs – see below). Here are the ways to tell if you have added the print queue successfully:
A The new print queue will now be displayed in the Print & Fax system pref pane (but not always – see below).
B You will see a printer proxy application in ~/Library/Printers/ which corresponds to your new print queue. This is the print monitor app that will show up in your Dock when you print to the queue.
C You can see the new print queue via the CUPS admin page at http://localhost:631/printers.
D You can see your new print queue from the Terminal by typing this command: “lpstat –v” (type “man lpstat” for more info on the lpstat and related commands)
E You can also see your printers by launching an print-enabled application such as TextEdit or Safari and printing a page. You will be presented with Leopard’s new print dialog box (which now includes a print preview pane). From the “Printer” drop-down menu you can see all of your printers. You can add a printer from here too (which takes you to the steps listed above)
(of course, most end users will only use option A listed above. The other options are more abstract and complicated)
Now that the AD print queue has been setup on your Mac, you can print to it (maybe).
Part 2: Printing to an AD-published print queue:
Open a document you want to print.
Choose “Page Setup...” from the File menu if you need to configure the job. (Optional)
Choose “Print” from the File menu.
From the Print dialog box, choose the desired print queue from the Printer menu
Click the Print button.
You will need to authenticate with a valid Active Directory username and password. You don’t have to have administrator credentials, but you have to verify that you are a domain member. In my environment, my Windows print server doesn't require authentication, but for some reason Leopard or CUPS makes you authenticate. (See below). Not only is this a major PIA, but the authentication dialog box itself is formatted to include the wrong credentials format for authentication in the first place.
Volia! Done. Easy huh? Not really. Read on for the ugly stuff.
My Complaints and Caveats:
OK, so here’s where I vent, complain and scratch my head. Join in on the fun.
Sometimes shared print queues don’t show up in the Print & Fax system preference pane after they have been added. I have no idea why. The local CUPS admin page (http://localhost:631) on my Mac test clients can see the connected queues, and the queues show up in ~/Library/Printers. The “lpstat –v” command shows the connect queues too. But for some reason, sometimes network print queues that I have previously setup (and use regularly) don’t show up in the Leopard Print & Fax preference pane. Local USB printers always show up fine for me.
2. When challenged to authenticate a print job to a Windows print server (AD), the Mac’s authentication dialog box pre-populates the AD user’s name in the “Name” field incorrectly. Example:
A user named “Joe Is Cool” (short name “JIC”) prints a job to the print server. The print auth dialog box challenges him for a name and password. It is pre-populated already with the name of “Cool, Joe”. When a valid AD password is entered, the job is rejected (it fails authentication and gets put on hold – which is hard to see this unless you explicitly look at the Printer.app proxy tool in the Dock). However, if the user replaces “Cool, Joe” with his official AD short name of “JIC” and then enters his AD password, the print job is accepted and printed. I wish Apple didn’t try and pre-populate the dialog box! Can this be avoided or prevented?
In my environment, my Windows print server doesn't even require authentication, but for some reason Leopard or CUPS makes you authenticate. I’m working with my Windows administrators to figure this out. It will only accept user names with the short name format. It will not accept long (full) names or NT legacy names.
3) The Printer Setup Utility app, which used to live in /Applications/Utilities, no longer exists. Apple has discontinued it for various reasons. Mainly security and simplicity. I wish it was still available, but the system pref pane works fine (well, usually)
4) Active Directory-based print queues will show up in the OS X Printer Browser as “Open Directory” printers, even though this is not 100% technically correct. Why can’t OS X tell the difference between OD queues and AD queues and label them as such?
5) Leopard has locked down the ability to add network printers. You now must be a local administrator in 10.5 or later. I understand the importance of this security measure in certain environments, but why can’t there be an option in the Security preference pane to “Allow non-admins to add printers”? This would make me very happy.
6) Setting the default printer and resetting the CUPS system now require you to right-click in the left side of the Print & Fax pane. There no longer is a button or menu option to do this.
7) Sometimes after a job has printed the printer proxy app (from ~/Library/Printers) stays in the Dock and won’t go away.
Conclusion
Please chime in on your experiences, bugs, opinions and comments.
Message was edited by: Daniel Stranathan

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We also have a similar problem printing to a Brother MFC-8860DN Laser on a small home network.
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Hi
Baffled!!
Hardware - 2 windows 7 PCs (IBM R60 & Tosh Tecra M10) on a simple home workgroup network.
One aging Laserjet 6P/MP Postscript connected to one of them (Tosh) via a USB->Parallel port connector.
All was working fine and has been for many months. And then a print job failed. It was hard to get rid of the job so I ended up deleting the print queue on the Tosh (stopping spooler and deleting files (from spool\printers) and resintalling the printer on the
Tosh.
Win7 does not find the printer automatically so I have to pick a port. Im told I have 3 USB printer ports - how do I know which one to usel does it matter and I thoguht they were supposed to go away when not used? Anyway I pick one and yes I can print but only
garbage - loads of small 9pt - looks like line printer font) characters with osme overprinting
Hmm so a few checks
= Printer self-test works fine and reports no problems
= Printer test print works fine.
- Print test page from windows 7 is garbage - lines of small (6pt?) random characters, some overprinting - basically garbage.
- In desparation, I dug out an old XP laptop with an actual parallel port plugged in the printer (which had the printer installed on iun a few years back) and it printed perfectly first time.
I have deleted printers from devices and printers (also printers and printer drivers from print management), rebooted and reinstalled printers and drivers until I am sick of it.
I have tried LPT1 and the USB port
I have tried installing the printer on a different computer (the one that normally accesses it via the network)
So I suspoect a problem with the printer drivers. I have tried to ensiure fresh drivers were downloaded but I am not clear whether I managed to achieve this. In fact I suspect not.
How do I fix this?
So, how do I download a fresh set of drivers?
If I can do that, is it sufficient to delete all printers; delete all drivers; reboot and reinstall all printers?
And what do I have to do to ensure windows uses the fresh set of drivers - assuming I can download them
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Hi,
Since all drivers in Windows update are produced from manufacturer and then after passing the Windows Logo Program testing, then they can be distribute onto update, that should be little delayed. I suggest we download the latest driver applied to Windows
7 from manufacturer site.
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You can temporarily disable security software and Windows Firewall service to test this issue. If the issue still persists, let’s check the Spooler dependency services in registry.
a. Click Start , type regedit in the Search box, and then press ENTER.
b. Locate and then click the following registry key:
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c. Right-click Spooler, click Export, Save a backup file on your desktop.
NOTE: If an unexpected issue be encountered after modifying registry, please double click the file to restore the backup .
d. In the details pane, if the DependOnService value shows values of RPCSS and other key, right-click DependOnService, and then click Modify.
e. In the Value data box, delete other key, and then click OK.
f. Exit Registry Editor.
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Fix printer problems
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/printer-problems-in-windows-help#fix-printer-problems=windows-7&v1h=win8tab1&v2h=win7tab4&v3h=winvistatab1&v4h=winxptab1
Print Spooler Crash Troubleshooting Steps
http://blogs.technet.com/b/perfguru/archive/2008/08/06/print-spooler-crash-troubleshooting-steps.aspx
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After installing CS3, Photoshop prints garbage characters on my HP LaserJet 1300.
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Summary of the last.
In iChat > Preferences > Accounts the items should be marked as Use the Account
This will log it in but will not guarantee display of the Account's Buddy List as you can Hide it as I described before.
In iChat > Preferences > Accounts the list is drag-able so that they can be in any order you want.
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I have come across several of your posts in trying to resolve a problem connecting to a printer on a G5 from Windows 2000. This post I could reply to.
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I have an iMac with an intel processor running Leopard 10.5.2.
I have a Canon iP1800 connected to a windows xp PC and I am wanting to print to this printer over my network.
I can see the printer no problem and Mac OS will let me connect to it but my printer is not listed in the driver list.
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