Network printing with leopard

I just installed Leopard and cannot print--either from my okidata c3400 that is connected via usb on my macbook pro or via the network to my dell 3000cn. I figure I have to wait for the oki to do a driver release, but maybe someone could tell me how to set up to network to my dell.
I can of course print when I am in the microsoft XP in bootcamp and parallels, just not directly from my mac.

Hi and Welcome to Apple Discussions...
Go to the Officejet site and do a search for drivers that are compatible with 10.6.
Go here also: Printing Software
Carolyn

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I'd just like to know if there is anyone who is able to use an HP Photosmart 7550 printer with Leopard.
I can print, but the printing is all garbled.

Thank you for your help HP Mac Architect.
Print Driver from System Preferences-> Print & Fax shows HP PhotoSmart 7550 - CUPS+GutenPrint 5.1.3 . There is another version called HP PhotoSmart 7550 - GutenPrint 5.1.3 .
The same "drivers" show up under http://localhost:631 which tells me that my system is only finding the CUPS driver (I think its a PPD or Postscript Printer Definition file that works with 1 driver for all printer types).
I downloaded the HP drivers on 11/2/2007 - that file is called gutenprint05.1.3.U.dmg (Jun 19 2007). I ran Install Gutenprint 5.1.3.mkpg found on the disk image. This installed the HP PhotoSmart 7550 - CUPS + GutenPrint 5.1.3 drivers.
I also have an HP Printer Selector program from 11/2/2007. If I click the "select" button on this program, it brings me to a screen called HP Printer Utility. At the bottom of the screen it appears to specify a non-cups driver: PhotoSmart/AiO connectivity: photosmart 7550, SN:CNxxxxxx. I can print a test and a diagnostic page from this utility window. The printing is absolutely perfect from this window.
So to me it appears that there is an old photosmart driver seen from the HP Printer Selector program and there are CUPS drivers. yet System Prefs can't find this driver. Or am I wrong.....
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Since installing Snow Leopard I have been unable to select my Officejet J6410 as a wireless network printer. I have followed the advice, selected Print & Fax in System Preferences, selected + and the printer comes up in Bonjour and after a few seconds it then adds HP-Fax and not, as in earlier versions, HPC012D7 Network Printer (HP IP). If I select the HP-Fax version I cannot wireless print. I know the wireless and printer are working because I have yet to install Snow Leopard on all of my computers. How to I get Snow Leopard to recognise and communicate with my printer?

Hi and Welcome to Apple Discussions...
Go to the Officejet site and do a search for drivers that are compatible with 10.6.
Go here also: Printing Software
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Since upgrading to Leopard I can no longer print anything on Lexmark x5470 all-in-one, regardless of what program I am using, after asking to print the program crashes. I have reinstalled both Leopard and printer sofware,also latest drivers,but it makes no difference.It's really frustrating!!!!!

There are several posts here on problems printing with Lexmark and the IJQuality plugin. If that is the crash you are seeing, you can rename or delete that plugin. It will cause a loss of some functionality, but it won't crash. If you'd like, post the entire crash log from Console here, and we can confirm if that is what's happening.
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How to configure network printer with Linksys WRT54GL router network

I just bought a Linksys WRT54GL router and I am planning to build the following home-network around it:
1. A desktop computer connected to router via ethernet cable (hard-wired).
2. An HP Network Printer (Color LaserJet CM1312 MFP) connected to router via ethernet cable (hard-wired).
3. A notebook connected to router via Wi-Fi.
I want both computers (desktop and notebook) to be able to share files, and also to share the same network printer.
a. How do I do this?
b. Do I need to install the printer drivers in both computers as if the printer was local for each one?
c. What settings do I need to include in the Linksys router settings (and also the printer settings) to allow all this? I've read on the internet about DHCP configs, IP address, etc. but I hardly understand anything.
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You will need to install the printer driver on each computer that will be using the printer. You will need to have a printer driver that is designed to be used on a network. Many of HP's drivers (but not all of them) can be used for either a USB or a network connection.
Usually, when you use HP's printer installation software, it will walk you through the printer installation procedure, and install the printer drivers. This software is normally located on a CD that came with the printer. Some installation software demands that you setup a USB connection first, then switch to a network connection. Other installation software might install a network connection directly. Just follow the HP directions.
There are no special settings in the router. Simply wire (using an ethernet cable) your printer to a LAN port on the router, when the installation software (or instructions) tells you to do so.
Your printer will likely get a different LAN IP address (192.168.1.x ) from time to time. Some printer drivers can handle this and still work properly. Other printer drivers get confused, and cannot find your printer when it changes addresses. If your driver has this problem, then you will need to assign your printer a fixed LAN IP address. This will force the printer to have the same LAN IP address each time you boot up your network. If you need to do this, you will need to enter the LAN IP address directly into your printer (Sometimes this is done using the printer's buttons and display panel, and sometimes this is done using HP printer software). Note that any fixed LAN IP address must be outside your DHCP server range (defaults are 192.168.1.100 thru 192.168.1.149 ) , and it cannot end in 0, 1, or 255. If you need to use a fixed LAN IP address, I would suggest you use 192.168.1.13 , which should be easy to remember by looking at the model number of your printer. If you need to use a fixed LAN IP address, you will also need to enter the Subnet Mask 255.255.255.0, Default Gateway 192.168.1.1 , and DNS Server 192.168.1.1 , into your printer. If you use a fixed LAN IP address in the printer, you do not need to change any settings in the router. The router will automatically find your printer when you turn your printer on. Even if your printer is using a fixed LAN IP address, your computers can continue to get their address automatically from the router's DHCP server.

Networking printer with HP Laserjet and Linksys wired print server

I have an older Laserjet 4 Plus that is networked via a Linksys 3-port wired print server.
My Windows-based PCs print to it fine but I can't print with my iMac. It gets there but gets an error at the printer and never prints.
I'm new to the Mac world as of 6/16 so am still learning.
Thanks for the help.

Paul, I am amazed you were ever able to print via the Linksys wireless server on your mac. I have the identical router and print server, and only the Windows PC's on my wireless network have been able to share the printer on that wireless server. I've been unable to find a driver for my iMac, and could never get the iMac to find the server. Finally gave up and bought an HP 2600n color laser and connected it directly to the iMac via USB. You're right about lack of help from Linksys. There is an Apple folder under "unsupported" on the print server installation CD, but there's nothing helpful in there.
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HP Officejet Pro L7680 All in one printer with leopard

Greetings,
Both my girlfriend and I print from home on this nice, newer printer that works great. There were a few bugs with Leopard once we installed it, but eventually it worked perfectly (for the last month or so) with my Macbook Pro. Today however I could not print and it showed up as an active printer. I recalled that when I was stuck in the past, I deleted the printer and then added it again and it worked....however today there is no printer showing up in the boxes. When I click the "+" sign, there is nothing in any choices. I am hooked up wirelessly and have a wireless hub and wireless cable internet. Basically most anyone with a mac could walk in my home and print and I like that. Now it seems my printer has "disappeared"...I did reboot the Mac and also the printer with no luck.
Thanks in advance for any hints or tips!
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Hi,
Try installing the updated HP software which also contains drivers, this is available at
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareDownloadIndex?softwareitem=oj-56730-1 &lc=en&cc=uk&dlc=en&product=2512009&os=219&lang=en
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Windows 7 and network printing with printers with "built-in" win 7 drivers

I'm trying to get network printing (i.e. printing to a printer not attached to the
PC) working.
This works fine for newer printers that have a specific, new Win-7 64-bit driver
written for them, but I can't get it to work for any printers (generally older printers) that just
use a driver that supposedly "comes with" Windows 7.
The problem is, the Windows 7 "Add a Printer" wizard does not automatically find the driver
for these older printers (like the DeskJet 950c or LaserJet 4300n) and so it wants you
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driver package, but for these older printers, they do not. Instead HP just says "no
download is needed because the driver is included in the operating system" and to just
plug in the printer (via USB or serial cable) and the OS will autodetect it and set up the right
driver. Unfortunately this plug-and-play solution does not work when you're trying to set up
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When the printer list comes up click on the "Windows Update" box in the lower right. This will update the list of drivers available and will likely take several minutes. Once the update has been done the available drivers will show up.
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EPSON Printing with Leopard --- Less options than in 10.4?

Hello -
Small graphic design business -- using an EPSON 1280 for printing invoices/proofs etc...
Since updating to 10.5 we can't print with the proper paper --- selecting from the EPSON printer pulldown - under print settings -- only to "Matte paper - Heavyweight" - the option to print on Plain Paper, 360 inkjet paper, photo quality ink jet paper and others is grayed out --
We need to print on "plain paper" for invoices and can't figure it out -- also will pose problems with printing proofs for clients -- .. We have tried RE-installing EPSON 1280 print software (twice) to no avail -- ALSO --- the EPSON print untility - used to check ink levels, clean printer etc... -- does not work with LEOPARD 10.5 ---
Does anyone have a solution for this ?
THANK YOU!
Christian Johnson, Principal
Xianstudio, LLC
Website: http://www.xianstudio.com
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We need to print on "plain paper" for invoices and can't figure it out -- also will pose problems with printing proofs for clients -- .. We have tried RE-installing EPSON 1280 print software (twice) to no avail -- ALSO --- the EPSON print untility - used to check ink levels, clean printer etc... -- does not work with LEOPARD 10.5 ---
That the utility doesn't work is usually an indication that the driver being used is not Epson's proprietary driver. Try deleting and re-adding the printer using Epson's Leopard driver. That may also help with the paper choices. (There is another thread on this here somewhere.)
Hope this helps.

Need hints on HP printing with Leopard

Color printing with HP Office Jet L7780 is poor with Mac Pro but OK with my MacBook Pro. Using Pages '08 is terrible with Mac Pro. Two sided printing is upside down using either Mac. The printer worked beautifully with Tiger on the MacBook Pro. Any hints would be helpful. I think that changing to my new Airport extreme and new Mac Pro and leopard all at the same time causes confusion for me and the printer.

First stop is to visit www.hp.com and search for updated Leopard drivers for your HP Printer.
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Solution To Network problems with Leopard systems and tiger and vista

After lots of research and looking into sharing data with leopard systems and other os, i finally found a Solution. Before i state what you have to do to fix it here is what the problem is.
Mac Os x( Leopard) systems trying to find computers or share data to other systems on the same lan can't find each other or simply if are found cant share data with each other.
Reason for the problem.
- By default tiger , windows and some linux distro's automatically join WORKGROUP under workgroup in WINS. with leopard this is changed to join local under workgroup. This effectively causes the systems to fail to communicate with each other.
- By default shared folders on leopard has smb not checked by default.
Solutions
-in order to see computers on the same network or workgroup. find out the workgroup with which all the local machines are connected to, then on your leopard system goto Apple->System Preferences->network ->advance and head over to WINS tab from here either select your workgroup or type in your workgroup. hit ok then apply in the network window. ( restart your mac at this point int time and try browsing the computers in your network)
- to make sure you can share folders with windwos machines goto apple->system preference ->Sharing. Make sure file sharing is selected then choose the folder you want to share or add a folder you want to share. next click on options and enable Share files and folders using SMB enter your password if it asks and then hit done.
hopefully this helps people with problems on their mac's. other wise you have three options if this is too much trouble install vmware fusion/parallels on your machine and install windows / install windows using bootcamp / and last get a windows machine ( although this choice is highly unlikely it's still a choice). Please note this is not a windows vs mac subject is just that apple has changed the network stack protocols and architecture so stuff is being done differently , you just got to think different to get stuff to work. but after it's all said and done all your system should work in harmony now.

Thank you all for replying. I upgraded to Tiger from Panther the first week and it worked AWESOME! I do have to say that I truly and beginning to feel like I'm having issues I would experience on a windows machine. I know that Apple will fix but it is frustrating that I'm having the issues that I'm having.
I just need to finish up the project I'm working on and then I'm going back. I'm currently without any admin rights on my computer but I'm working away. I actually don't know what to expect next so I'm just backing up my data from time to time and working hard to get this done and get back to Tiger (that will be a long process so don't want to get started).
Again thank you all! Also I want to call Apple about this but don't want to wait on hold for the tech. AND they are only open during business hours. Guess what, I work during business hours. What's up with that? Adobe is available all the time.

Default Network Printer With Roaming Profile

I have one user, only one out of 50+, whose roaming profile keep changing the default printer upon log in. I have verified that it is her profile, not her computer, as when I log in to a different computer the same issue happens. I have verified her
roaming profile is uploading the registry key for the default printer correctly so I know that is correct. The problem is with the default printer being a network printer.
To explain better lets say she has 2 local printers, Local1 and Local2, and 2 networked printers, Network1 and Network2. If she has Local1 set as default, log off and log on, Local1 is still the default. In the same way if Local2 is the default, log off
and log on, Local2 is still the default. If either Network1 or Network2 are set as default, log off, check the ntuser.dat hive and ensure that the registry key still states that Network1 is the defaulter, log on, and Local1 is now the default. I assume there
must be something in her profile that is forcing the local printers to default rather than the networks.
The local printers not not physical printers but rather virtual such as Adobe PDF Converter or Send to One Note. If I remove all these local printers, set Network1 as default, log out and in, then Network1 is the default rather than no default. So I know
it isn't the fact that the profile is not connecting to the network. The problem is the user uses those virtual printers so they need to be installed.
There is only one user that has this problem so I assume it is a setting/registry key that is causing the roaming profile to pick a local printer rather than what is stored as default.
We do not use GPP to push printers so I cannot edit a GPO for this users and set her default that way. I need Windows to be able to natively set the printer, without log in scripts or anything of the sort.
Does anyone have a clue what would cause this? If I can explain better or provide any more information please let me know.

Hi，
This problem caused by Registry key problem, you can access to the path below and clear all the subkey of the registry：
HKEY_USERS\USERS_SID_HERE\Printers\Connections
HKEY_USERS\USERS_SID_HERE\Printers\Settings key
Note: to identify the User SID, please follow the steps below:
Open Registry Editor and navigate to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion \ProfileList
Under the ProfileList key, you will see the SIDs. By selecting each one individually, you can look at the value entry and see what user name is associated with that particular SID.
After remove all the subkey, restart your computer to check the problem.
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Printing with Leopard

I can only print with generic drivers and with those the scan function does not work. When I select any other driver and try to print the application I am printing from is turned off and no printing occurs. This happens with Text Edit, Neo Office, and Microsoft word. I am using an HP Laserjet 3055 All in one.

Check the website more carefully.
What I mean is that I have the same issue with my Canon MP600.
I read that an update is coming sometime this month.
If it's a matter of simply waiting, then that is what I shall advise.
If you are unable to wait and must print, you might have to downgrade back to Tiger until your update becomes available.

Network issues with Leopard fresh install

I have an iBook that I was running Leopard on with no issues yesterday. It is no longer my main computer, so I wanted to wipe everything and start from scratch with a fresh install of Leopard. The install went smoothly. I did an Erase & Install setup from a Leopard Upgrade disc (but already had Leopard on my system so upgrade verified OK). When I booted up for the first time, it appeared everything was working normally.
I went online, downloaded a couple pieces of software I frequently use, and then started to set things up. This is when I ran into issues. I could browse the web without a problem. I could set up email with POP access, but not IMAP. AIM with Adium connects just fine. Tweetie won't connect. Dropbox won't connect. It's like some ports are being blocked, but others aren't, and I can't figure out why.
I have tried/verified:
OSX firewall is off
Restarted router/cable several times
iBook is in router's DMZ- outside of router firewall
Repaired permissions
Reset PRAM
Anyone have any suggestions or other troubleshooting ideas?

Here are the steps to selling*:
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Mac Pros that shipped with Leopard should install from the Mac Pro labelled discs. Those that came with pre-Leopard, you should still include the Mac Pro discs, though if you desire to install Leopard on them, you should also include the Leopard discs that are retail. Leopard retail looks like * and do not say Upgrade, DropIn, or OEM.
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Networking issue with Leopard 10.5.2, Arris Touchphone, Netgear WRG614 v4

I recently upgraded to Leopard 10.5.2 and now having long hang times of 15 seconds (if I connect at all) to internet. It's not a signal issue, AND I have a PC that flies on same wireless network.
The same time I loaded new OS, Comcast came in a changed out my Motorola SURFboard SB5120 modem for Arris Touchtone Telephony modem. I am still using the Netgear WRG614v4 with the most updated firmware(V5.0_07)
Of course, I wasn't sure if not being able to connect to internet was a Leopard issue or a networking issue. After many hours of troubleshooting...
1. MANY hard resets through cable company AND buttons on both modem and cable
2. Applied all the newest Updates to 10.5.2 which fixed the issue for about 2 hours, then back to crawling
3. Changed the channel on the Netgear from 11 to 9
4. Went to Starbucks AND Panera Bread and had fast connectivity even from the parking lot!
Although I expect some issues to pop up from the new OS, I now believe the connectivity issue is with either the new modem or router. Comcast insists that their firmware is up-to-date and is automatic.
Should I get a new router? HELP

I've been on the road and everything is working fine, but now I'm back home and the same issues.
BUT for some reason, after a day, something switched up and now the mac is on-line and the PC is not. They are definately fighting each other. Even the wireless printer is wacked. Sometimes when I try to print from the mac, it can't connect to the printer. I then either restart the mac or restart the printer, and it goes through.
The other issue now is that all the lights on the Arris modem are blinking. Comcast is saying something is wrong. They are coming out today. Wonder if I just got a bad modem....

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