Network printers

After loading leopard my MacBook no longer recognize my wireless network printers at home. The main computer is windows based. What steps should I do to load the printer drivers to use the network printers.

hi all...again, i have no answer just another person with the same problem...i can connect to the internet fine, but not my home network. Sometimes it will see the other computers on the network and sometimes it will not. When i can see the computers on the network and connect the network printer everything seems fine...until i try to print. Then it says NT server connection failed...or something like that. If anyone can help that would be great! thanks

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Need helping printing to networked printers.

I need help setting up network printers that have a code on them for each individual. There is no place to put a code so the printer will know who is printing what. I have installed 3 printers and they will not print, they just go to a paused mode and when you hit resume in reverts back to pause because it is looking for a code. I have tried it another way but it asks for a user name and password and all we have are codes. The workplace is using a windows based server and the copiers are listed as followed.
Konica biz hub c450
Sharp ar m700n
sharp mx700n
I need help to be able to print from my mac. I also have parallels running with xp installed and all the printers are installed on that side and printing fine. Hopefully someone can help me out.
Thanks in advance

Hello and welcome to Apple Discussions.
In order to provide the user with the ability to input a user code, the respective printer driver would have to provide the facility. If this feature did exist on a previous version of OS X, then you may have to check the vendors web site to see if there is a driver for 10.6.
If you are not sure if the function was supported previously, then go through all the user menus for the driver. The function may be present but located in an unusual location. Or it could require an additional file (aka plugin) that could be missing from the driver installation or not compatible with 10.6.
The other thing to note is that if you have the Mac's printing via a Windows queue, you will have to provide user credentials for SMB print queues. This is typically a Windows user account - not the Mac's account details. If you don't want to create accounts for the Mac users on the Windows server, then you can use LPD rather than SMB to connect to the Windows queues. This does require UNIX Printing Services to be enabled on the server.
Pahu

Network printers take long time to show in control panel - devices and printers

G'day,
an annoying effect both on Win 8.1 and Win Server 2012 R2: after installing/connecting a network printer for a user, it takes about 10 minutes (sic!) till printer is shown in devices and printers...
Printer is shown and can be used immediately after connect in word/notepad, but properties of printers can only be managed via devices and printers. Work around for setting standard printer: open notepad, click
print and right-click printer.
But we have to choose a special printer profile, which cannot be done else than devices and printers.
Sometimes even previously installed printers do not show for minutes after logon...
Restarting spooler: no effect
Changing drivers: no effect
Printers are Konica C554 series and 4700P series with Konica PCL drivers.
Print server for network printers in Win Server 2012 R2 (VM on Hyper-V 2012 R2)
No other network issues.
Thanks and regards.
McButtonn

Open the printer folder the spooler team built. It's hidden but available and will list just the printers not the devices.
If the print shows up immediately, the spooler has the information. You will be running the shell command to invoke the old UI.
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/8d69181f-3b9f-43c0-ba6d-ba99fe5fc413/printer-visible-in-print-dialog-but-not-visible-in-devices-and-printers-revisited?forum=w7itprohardware
Enumerating into the Devices and printers UI is then the issue.
thanks
Alan Morris formerly with Windows Printing Team

Is it possible to create a configuration profile that will install multiple network printers and their associated drivers

Is it possible to create a configuration profile that will install multiple network printers and their associated drivers?
I was not able to find profile manager on my employer's installation of 10.6 Server. Is this only a feature of 10.7/10.8 server?

10.6 server does not have profile manager, profile manager is only available in 10/7 and 10.8 server
for 10.6 server you'll need to use wgm and server admin
printer management with 10.6, I recommend you read the relevant server manuals regarding
print server and user management, printer management

Upgraded to 10.5.8 and now can't see either of my networked printers

Hello all, I just upgraded my G5 dual 2.5 to 10.5.8. I have two printers that are both connected to separate Airport Extremes. My G5 ethernet port is connected to a linksys WET11 wireless ethernet bridge, which is in turn connected to the wi-fi network of the main airport. Here is my problem. I can surf the web just fine, so clearly my G5 is seeing the Airport. However ever since upgrading to 10.5.8 I can't add either of my networked printers in the printer setup. It just doesn't see any printers. I've reset the printing in the OS (control clicking on the print prefs and resetting followed by reboot) I've rebooted both the printer and the airport separately and I've double checked that the printer is set as a shared printer in the airport admin software. My laptop (an ibook g4) also running 10.5.8, has no problem seeing both networked printers and printing to them. I'm flummoxed as to why my tower suddenly can't. (It could see both with the exact same setup running 10.4.11) Any ideas? Your help is greatly appreciated, since this is very frustrating! thanks,
-Andrew

Your network setup is a little complicated. Can you explain it a little better and confirm that there's only one DHCP server in it - all devices get IP addresses from one of the Airport Extremes, for example?
It sounds like maybe you have two or more separated subnets.

Solution for Network Printers who've lost Appletalk?

Figured out what appears, so far, to be a solution to those having issues with older network printers and the loss of Appletalk in SL.
After trying everything recommended to make my HP 4050n work under SL, and just about to give up and start shopping for a replacement printer (much to my disgust - my 4050n has been a workhorse and is still in perfect working order, even at 10 years old!), I spied the $29 Apple USB Ethernet Adapter I purchased for my MB Air sitting on the corner of my desk.
Well, I had tried everything else to no avail (because my ethernet IP had to remain unchanged from its DHCP settings for my cable modem to work), I figured, what the heck, and moved the printer's cat 5 cable from my e-net hub/switch to the adapter plugged into a USB port. Lo and behold, SUCCESS!!!
The OS recognized it as a separate "USB Ethernet" device, allowing me to set a separate IP Address for the printer than the modem. Following the steps below, some as outlined already by others, I now have my legacy 4050n working and available as a network printer. Yay!
1. Cold Boot your printer to reset to original factory settings (see manual or mfgr.'s website for method).
2. Print out a configuration page using the printer's menu and note the new IP address (apparently, it's often 192.0.0.192).
3. Plug in your printer's cat 5 cable into the adapter and the adapter into an open USB port.
4. In System Preferences > Network, configure the new "USB Ethernet" selection's IP address manually (I used the "DHCP with manual address" setting) - I found that it's best to set it one number down from the printer address, so, in my case, at 192.0.0.191.
5. Go to Print & Fax in System Preferences and click on the "+" button to add a new printer.
6. In the drop down window select IP for the connection type at the top, then a protocol (in my case, I have the HP with a Jetdirect card, so the choice was the HP Jetdirect socket), the enter the printer address from the configuration printout and type an identifying name into the Name box. When I did this, it almost immediately found the correct Printer driver (something that had alluded me in all my previous attempts!) and I was back in business.
Here's the link in the Apple store to the adapter:
http://store.apple.com/us/product/MB442Z/A?fnode=MTY1NDA3Ng&mco=OTg5MjQ3NQ
Hope this helps!

Hi George,
Does this happen for every Network Printer or specific one?
Did you find any network performance problem during your issue?
Firstly, please check your printer driver, update to the latest version on both client side and Terminal server. If you are using Easy print driver then you can try to disable that and check the result. For that you need to disable the option “Use
Remote Desktop Easy Print printer driver first” under below path.
Computer Configuration\Policies\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Terminal Services\Terminal Server\Printer Redirection
In addition also check there is no any network issue. More information:
1. Printer Redirection
2. Bandwidth Allocation for Terminal Server connections over RDP
Hope it helps!
Thanks.

RDS & network printers best practices

We are in the process of designing a multi site remote desktop solution for a customer, they have around 80 users with 5-10 users per site. I've been searching for some recommendations about the best way to deploy their network printers.
The RDS farm is located in a single site, the other remote sites will not have a local server. Traditionally we've used site-site VPN's and just set the printers up as network printers on a central file/print server. Doing this works but you lose the benefits
of Easy Print and potentially we may struggle with bandwidth at some sites.
Is there a better way to do this? One train of thought is to add the printers locally to the thin clients, then use individual printer redirection so that it utilises Easy Print. This seems to work but from a management point of view it's pretty unfriendly.
Any other suggestions?
Thanks
Robert Grigsby

Hi Robert,
Thank you for your posting in Windows Server Forum.
Please check the answer by Clarence Zhang for some basic suggestion.
RDS printing best practices
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/4dc0e050-a6ca-42d3-86f6-17babc3003fe/rds-printing-best-practices?forum=winserverTS
WS2008: Terminal Services Printing
http://blogs.technet.com/b/askperf/archive/2008/02/17/ws2008-terminal-services-printing.aspx
Hope it helps!
Thanks,
Dharmesh

Editing Configuration.MOF For Network Printers/Mapped Drives SCCM 2012?

Question is in Configuration Manager 2007 I would edit the SMS Def MOF file and then run Datashift.vbs on all the clients to add a WMI class for mapped drives for inventory. So most of my clients that I upgraded to 2012 already have that class added
to WMI. I just need to figure out what I need to do on the new server and Configuration.MOF (since SMS Def is missing in 2012) to tell it to collect the newly added classes during hardware inventory. I see that you can click on Set Classes in the client settings
but I don't see where you can check mapped drives or network printers there.

There is no out-of-box solution to handle this task.
But try this. This has worked for us really well. We've got 22000 machines inventoried.
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/c08c393d-1ea4-4f6b-8f07-affc0f743193/network-printer-inventory-in-system-centre-configuration-manger-sccm-2012?forum=configmanagergeneral#c08c393d-1ea4-4f6b-8f07-affc0f743193

Windows Networked Printers

my crappy old works Dell is constantly dieing (sp?) on me!
i am tired of it so i want to bring my Macbook to work and use that.
thing is i MUST be able to print to 3 (Xerox, Hp and sharp) printers. all are on a windows server to which the PC can print to any of them. i can gain access to the server with my allocated UN/PW.
how do i set up and print to these printers?
IP addresses?
i cant install more than one driver as tried this before...?

You should be able to connect to them on your mac by connecting to the network and server at work, then going to *System Preferences*, *Print & Fax*, and then click the + under the box on the left and looking in the Windows tab. The networked printers should be listed there, and you should be able to add them.

Both HP8000 (C4086A) networked printers truncate several characters left margin after Windows Update

Our network is a Small Business Windows 2003 network. After the Windows Updates this month both of our HP8000 (C4086A) networked printers truncate several characters left margin; and it doesn't make a difference what the OS is, Windows XP Pro or Windows 7; all 32 bit.
There are no issues printing to a networked Toshiba ES-555.

Adobe Reader does not see all network printers

Hi,
Any help on below would be greatly appreciated
Thank you
Issue:
When printing from Adobe Reader not all network printers appear in the list of printers
All other applications (notepad, word, excel, powerpoint) see all printers and are able to print
Tried:
Drivers: Xerox model specific drivers, universal drivers, global print drivers
Print Processors: Xerox, winprint
Remapped / added printers
Uninstalled/installed printers to print servers
Print servers: Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012
Current Environment:
Windows 7 SP1 x64
Windows Server 2008 R2
Adobe:
     Version 11.0.06
     Full Verison 11.0.06.70
     AGM Version 4.28.134
     CoolType Version 5.11.135
     Core Version 11.6
     JP2K Version 2.0.00.32097
Xerox Printers
     WorkCentre 4260
     Phaser 3600
     Phaser 3610
Xerox Drivers
     Xerox GPD PCL V3.3.3347.6.0
     Xerox GPD PCL6 V3.3.3347.6.0
Print Processor
     Winprint.dll

I also have this problem that Adobe Reader will not print, but this only occurred for me after installation of MS Office 2010.
The proposed solution of changing default printers does not work for me!
Does anybody have a real explanation as to what causes this problem and a real solution for it?
I have already tried re-installing Adobe Reader 9.3.4 and this had no effect. I am using Windows XP with SP3.
thanks for any help ....

PS CS4 doesn't see network printers

Hi. I have installed some network printers on my PC, and PS CS4 doesn't list them. It only lists local printers installed on my PC and the Adobe PDF (I have Acrobat). That is under File > Print... and also under File > Page Setup... > Printer... . All the other applications do list the network printers I have installed. Any idea what I am doing wrong?

This might help you: The info is a little ways down the KB.
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/404/kb404896.html

Is anyone having issues with printing to network printers with 10.8.4?

I have upgraded our schools to Mountain Lion. Ever since the beginning of the year we have had issues with network printers. They are all HP printers, when they go to sleep a user has to turn off the printer and turn it back on then resend the print job. Now users are being asked to put a password itno the Print Operator group. This never happened before. Cups is changing the queue names to MCX_1 or 2 etc. Not keeping the queue name. All these people are in WGM and have printers set for their group. So I have reset the printer settings on the machines, then restart relog in and get the list of printers they can print too and within 1 day they are unable to print. I am trying my very best to get this issue fixed and all solutions have been exausted. So without having to go to every computer and going into the Ldadmin group thru a terminal, is there anything that anyone has done to fix this issue with out visiting every computer. Thank you.

The printers failing to wake from sleep is an issue. A print request should be waking them.
You have not mentioned what printer server is involved. I could assume it is OS X Server since you mentoned WGM, but it would be nice to have you confirm this. Then I can start to suggest some actions.

Is Possible to Monitor Network Printers using OEM

Hi All,
Is it possible to monitor Network printers status using Oracle Grid Control, please let me know if it possible.
Thanks in advance..
YJR

The certification matrix for OEM GC: Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control Certification Checker [ID 412431.1]
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Rob

Cant set up network printers

We have a mac pro running Leopard server 10.5.4. Four leopard client computers (10.5.4 also) bound to the server. DNS is working, and users can log in fine to the server.
Im trying to set up network printers and I'm totally failing. The first printer is an HP laser plugged into a USB port on the back of the server. I add the printer in the System Preferences window. I've tested printing from the server itself and it works fine. In Server Admin, in the Print service, I create the queue (which sees the printer I just installed), I check IPP, and start the Print service. Heres where the annoyances begin. If I go to workgroup manager, click on one of the user accounts, go to preferences, and try to force the printer to show up in the user's list of printers, the list of AVAILABLE printers is empty! So I cant force the printer on the user.
Fine, but if I go to one of the client computers, log in, go to system preferences, and try to add the printer, nothing shows up! When I try to set the printer up on the client, Im making sure that Im selecting IPP, putting the server address in, but the queue name never shows up.
Where am I going wrong? And is this even the right way to be going about this? Is there any step by step process for this?

Hi, not near one of my OS9 machines right now, but do you have Appletalk ON, and, umm, err, there's a place to Choose Ethernet & connect by IP. Then is Printer Sharing turned only on the one it's connected to?

Network printers taking approximately 15 minutes to appear in Devices and Printers

Found an issue with network printers. When they are installed either manually or via Group policy preferences, they don't appear in Devices in Printers for around 15 minutes, sometimes longer. However they can be seen within Applications such as Word,
Excel etc.
If we reboot the workstation immediately after installing the printer and log back in, the printers are visible.
The issue doesn't occur with local printers.

Hi,
This problem can be caused by Network proxy problem. So, first of all, please check if you had setting any proxy in your computer.
In addition, If you using any security software, please try to disable them temporarilly for test.
If no use, try to following method for test.
1. In Control Panel, goto System [WIN+X -> Y]
2. Click "Advanced system settings"
3. Click "Hardware" Tab then "Device Installation Settings"
4. Select "No Let me choose what to do" and "Never install driver software from Windows Update"
(Optional) Uncheck "Automatically get the device app and info provided by your device manufacturer"
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TechNet Community Support

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