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.

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Windows PCs can't print via my Tiger server using Bonjour. The printers shared by the server are visible in the Bonjour add new printer wizard. When printing the jobs are sent from the Windows PCs without error messages. But nothing gets printed.
The same queues work fine from Macs.
Looked for the print server logs, but the only logs for the queues are for Appletalk, and they are empty. The server is set not to share any of the print queues via Appletalk.
Tried printing via SMB, but no luck there either.
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Tested turning of the server firewall, but this did not help.
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Since you can print directly to them from Windows via Bonjour I am wondering how you are sharing the printer from the server. My guess is that it is via 'Print & Fax' of System Preferences. If the printers support LPR, then I would suggest you configure the server printers this way. Go to Server Admin > Print > Settings and enable LPR and 'Show name in Bonjour'. This will give you more control over the printers.
If you have shared the printers this way and since SMB also fails, then I would ensure you haven't enabled print quotas for the queue. This can make jobs vanish.
Even if you are using 'Print & Fax' to share the printer, you still should be able to see the cups error log. In the Server Admin, select Print, then select Logs and then for the Show menu select error log. This is the same log for both methods of shared printers and this should give some clues as to why the Windows spool files are not printing.

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From HP Support
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If the device is not functioning properly or to clear memory, reset it.
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Anything printed using Bonjour from Windows to Mac is very light in color

I dont get this at all. And it only started happening very recently. When using my printer connected to my Mac, and printing from my Windows Vista laptop (using Bonjour of course), all of the colors are very light. Black text is light grey, and all of the other colors are very washed out. I have no idea whats going on here. My printer is a Canon MP160.
Any help would be extremely appreciated.
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I have the same problem after I updated to 10.5.5 yesterday. My Canon MP 780 works perfectly printing from my mac and all the networked macs in the house. When I connect the printer to Vista (on my mac) running in Parallels directly (by checking my printer in "Devices- USB"), it works perfectly; but when I try to print networked from Vista via Bonjour, it uses blue ink for text. Prior to the update it printed perfectly without having to connect it to Parallels.

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I am using time capusle and have my husbands Windows 7 PC and my MacBook Pro connected to it. I just purchased a HP LaserJet P1606dn and have connected and printed to it succesfully using Bonjour on my MacBook.
I have connected through Bonjour to the printer on the PC, but when I print a page, it keeps printing the page over an over. It stays in the que. I also set up my dual boot MacBook/Vista laptop and agai, I have no issues on the MacBook part, but it does the same thing on the Vista Machine as on the Windows 7.
Does anyone have any ideas how to fix this?
Thanks!

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Printing via Bonjour stalls printer

I have an Epson CX6600 hanging off of my G4, and I can print from that with no problems.
I have a WinXP SP2 box, Bonjour installed, printer wizard run and my printer recognized and set up with no problems. However when I print, the job does indeed show up on the Epson printer queue on the G4, but the printer goes into "stopped" mode, and any further jobs from either machine just queue.
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Unable to print through Bonjour from Windows Vista

I recently installed an Airport Extreme for my wireless netowrk. I have two desktops directly connected to the Airport - an iMac and a PC running Windows Vista. There is also a Samsung USB printer connected to the airport. There are also two laptops connecting wirelessly - a PC running Windows Vista and a MacBook.
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Print to a shared Windows printer

OK, here is a scenario that I hope someone can help me with. I teach at a university, and I have in my office an elderly PowerMac G4-450 which, by choice, I use instead of the shiny new Dell PC that my department has generously provided for me (I like iWork way better than MS Office).
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Mac OS X 10.4- Can't print to a printer shared by Microsoft Windows;
Mac OS X- Cannot locate a shared Windows printer;
Mac OS X- How to manually add a Windows shared printer;
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Monday, July 24 2006 @ 11:00 AM PDT
Tutorial: Resolving common printer problems
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Use Printer Setup Repair This tool lets you verify properties of the root user, the Printing Services (lp) user, and Print Operators (lp) groups, reset the printing system, perform CUPS maintenance and more. Run through its set of maintenance tasks before delving into further printer troubleshooting. See how to use it in this article.
Re-install CUPS If you are experiencing printer issues after applying an incremental Mac OS X update, problems may have occurred with your CUPS installation during the update process.
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Delete then re-add printers/Reset printing system Open Printer Setup Utility, located in Applications/Utilities and look at the "Printer List" Highlight and delete all entries.
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Click the "Add" button and re-add your printer(s).
Gutenprint and usbtb Some users have been able to resolve printer communication issues by installing the excellent open-source Epson printer drivers available as part of the Gutenprint package (formerly known as Gimp-print) and usbtb, a CUPS back-end for USB printing.
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Re-install drivers Re-installation of printer drivers from original media or from a Web download (either directly through the manufacturers site or via a search by model/manufacturer on VersionTracker) can resolve some printer issues.
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Connecting directly to the Mac If you are having printer problems and are using an external USB hub, try connecting the printer directly to your Mac.
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Disconnect from AirPort and reset For those who are using printers connected to an AirPort Express, Extreme or another wireless device with USB connections, you might want to try the following:
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Wait a few minutes
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Print one copy In some cases, using print one copy instead of the standard print command can result in elimination of crashes that occur during printing.
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Print from Mac to Windows printer

Hi, I've got a Time Capsule that's hooked up to my Mac Pro. I have 2 windows computers upstairs that are wireless. I recently hooked up an Epson Stylus CX7400 printer to my computer upstairs which is running Windows Vista. I can print perfectly from the Windows Vista computer but I have no clue how to print from my Mac. I also want to print from my other windows computer which is running Windows XP. Any help is greatly appreciated.
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For this to work at all you must turn on printer sharing on the Windows machine to which the printer is physically connected. Since this is a Windows issue you will need to find Windows help with it. Perhaps you could post a query in the Windows forum here or at the MS forums.
Once the printer is shared you should be able to locate the printer in the Print & Fax preferences to Add it for OS X. You will need a proper OS X compatible driver for the printer.
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Also see:
Setting up to print to a printer shared by a Windows computer via SMB
Mac OS X 10.5- Compatibility with Windows-shared printers
Mac OS X- Cannot locate a shared Windows printer
iFelix Technical Support Pages
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Printing to a shared Windows printer

I can't seem to print to a shared Vista printer on my home network. I've scoured the Internet and this support site and have run into brick walls. According to the Apple web site: "Shared Windows printers automatically appear in the Mac OS X Printer Setup Utility so they can be added to the Macintosh as a local printer queue."
This isn't happening for me. When I bring up the Printer Setup Utility, I get the "Printer List". I click on "Add". I get the "Printer Browser". In the protocol selector, there are three protocols, none of which relate to Windows. So I click "More Printers..."
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I have a similar problem trying to network two Macs and a PC for printer and file sharing. I too have the nagging feeling that there's one simple setting somewhere that would cure the problem. I posted a query a week ago (4/21) and got a response from iFelix who directed me to web pages he's posted with step-by-step instructions on setting up Macs and PCs for printer and file sharing:
Sharing files between an XP PC and a Mac running OS 10.4.x
http://tech.ifelix.net/3020.html
Printing to a printer on a XP PC from a Mac running 10.4.x
http://tech.ifelix.net/3015.html
Printing to a printer on a Mac from a PC running Windows XP
http://tech.ifelix.net/3000.html
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