Printing via smb in 10.8.2

Hello,
with Lyon 10.7.4 I was able to connect via ethernet to shared printers in my office by something like that:
smb://server/printername
When I did want to print, I had to authenticate to the printer with username and password and then printed.
I then upgraded to 10.8.2, and the same procedure does not work anymore. I can still connect to my printer, I authenticate but then nothing happens in my printing queue. Under the document I want to print, it is written: "maintain for authentication" (I would translate so from italian to english).

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Print Service- SMB - Can't get jobs to print on shared HP printer via SMB

I have been banging my head on the wall on this one, and a call to Apple support ended up with a lot of diags followed by “It must be the printer driver, call HP”
Has anyone successfully shared HP Officejet/Deskjet/Photosmart printers from Mac OS X 10.5.x via SMB?
HP Officejet 6110 (also tried with Deskjet and Photosmart printers with similar results)
Connected to Mac OS X 10.5.2 server via USB
Drivers tested: HP All-in-one, Gutenburg, Foomatic
Shared via Bonjour, IPP, and SMB for testing (Need just SMB for deployment)
Connected to with OS X 10.5.2 non-server version
Via Bonjour/IPP connects fine and prints with any of the above 3 drivers
Via SMB connects and sends print jobs that never print
The Server is receiving the print jobs, you can see it in the log, and if you have cover pages turned on you get a cover page for each job
But, the job never actually prints anything
I don't understand why it would be the driver since the same driver prints out fine via bonjour/IPP
Also, if I connect the printer to a windows box and share it via SMB that driver works fine
Connecting to the same SMB share from windows with the HP all-in-one driver produces the same results, the Server receives the print but outputs nothing.
Using the generic/text-only driver will print just fine (can’t find a generic text driver for the Mac for testing)

At least I try...
My setup is: Mac mini with OS X Server 10.5.2, HP DeskJet 895Cxi connected to the Mac via USB using the HP printer driver from the 2.7.1 package (yes, I had to downgrade(!) the drivers: the drivers bundled with Leopard do not(!) work with some (many?!) DeskJet printers as many others have also already discovered - see the postings in this forum elsewhere...).
The server is configured as a PDC. Samba is up and running, I can login as a domain user from the Windows clients.
Local printing with this setup works fine.
However, Windows clients can't print: same symptoms as yours. A cover page get's printed, but the spool data seems to end up in a black hole...
All I can see in the logs is the call to the "gziptoany" filter - and CUPS claims that it "exited with no errors". For me, it looks like it's eating the whole thing...
Upto now, I didn't find any solution in the net. I found some references that it should be possible to explicitely setup a "raw" printing queue and use this for the Windows clients, or alternatively to setup the clients with Postscript drivers.
Both seems reasonable to me, but these postings refer to Linux distributions and older software versions.
So for now I'm wading through the CUPS and Samba documentation, because I want to try to understand how these beasts are meant to be used and what Apple did to them.
I hope I will find a solution soon.
My "Plan B" is to get some nice little print server.
At first, when the printer was connected to one of the Windows clients, OS X could use it without problems even with the current drivers (HP 3.3.1 as well as the Gutenprint driver). So I would expect that some cheap "mini print server for Windows boxes" will also do for the server... oh, yes, still somewhat optimistic about getting something for my money...
If somebody else would be so kind and might try to help - here is an extract from my error_log with the - IMHO - relevant portion:
d (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) (Job 5) start_job: file = 1/2
d (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) dnssdRegisterPrinter(HPDeskJet895Cxi) update
D (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) (Job 5) job-sheets=standard,none
D (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) (Job 5) banner_page = 0
D (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) (Job 5) argv(0)="HPDeskJet895Cxi"
D (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) (Job 5) argv(1)="5"
D (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) (Job 5) argv(2)="webbasan"
D (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) (Job 5) argv(3)="smbprn.00000002 Test Page"
D (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) (Job 5) argv(4)="1"
D (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) (Job 5) argv(5)="job-uuid=urn:uuid:b82da924-a748-3a0e-4dcd-92fb99aec162"
D (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) (Job 5) argv(6)="/private/var/spool/cups/d00005-002"
D (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) (Job 5) envp(0)="<CFProcessPath>"
D (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) (Job 5) envp(1)="CUPS_CACHEDIR=/private/var/spool/cups/cache"
D (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) (Job 5) envp(2)="CUPS_DATADIR=/usr/share/cups"
D (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) (Job 5) envp(3)="CUPS_DOCROOT=/usr/share/doc/cups"
D (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) (Job 5) envp(4)="CUPS_FONTPATH=/usr/share/cups/fonts"
D (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) (Job 5) envp(5)="CUPS_REQUESTROOT=/private/var/spool/cups"
D (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) (Job 5) envp(6)="CUPS_SERVERBIN=/usr/libexec/cups"
D (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) (Job 5) envp(7)="CUPS_SERVERROOT=/private/etc/cups"
D (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) (Job 5) envp(8)="CUPS_STATEDIR=/private/var/run/cups"
D (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) (Job 5) envp(9)="PATH=/usr/libexec/cups/filter:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin"
D (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) (Job 5) envp(10)="[email protected]"
D (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) (Job 5) envp(11)="SOFTWARE=CUPS/1.3.6"
D (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) (Job 5) envp(12)="TMPDIR=/private/var/spool/cups/tmp"
D (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) (Job 5) envp(13)="USER=root"
D (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) (Job 5) envp(14)="CUPS_SERVER=/private/var/run/cupsd"
D (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) (Job 5) envp(15)="CUPS_ENCRYPTION=IfRequested"
D (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) (Job 5) envp(16)="IPP_PORT=631"
D (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) (Job 5) envp(17)="CHARSET=utf-8"
D (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) (Job 5) envp(18)="LANG=de.UTF8"
D (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) (Job 5) envp(19)="APPLE_LANGUAGE"
D (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) (Job 5) envp(20)="PPD=/private/etc/cups/ppd/HPDeskJet895Cxi.ppd"
D (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) (Job 5) envp(21)="RIPMAXCACHE=8m"
D (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) (Job 5) envp(22)="CONTENT_TYPE=application/octet-stream"
D (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) (Job 5) envp(23)="DEVICE_URI=file:///dev/null"
D (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) (Job 5) envp(24)="PRINTER=HPDeskJet895Cxi"
d (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) (Job 5) start_job: filter="/usr/libexec/cups/filter/gziptoany"
d (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) (Job 5) start_job: filterfds(0)=( -1 -1 )
d (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) cupsdStartProcess("/usr/libexec/cups/filter/gziptoany", 0x134c50, 0xbfffcc08, -1, -1, 23)
d (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) (Job 5) start_job: Closing filter pipes for slot 1 ( -1 -1 )...
I (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) (Job 5) Started filter /usr/libexec/cups/filter/gziptoany (PID 80361)
d (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) (Job 5) start_job: Closing print pipes ( -1 -1 )...
d (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) (Job 5) start_job: Closing status output pipe 23...
d (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) (Job 5) start_job: Closing filter pipes for slot 1 ( -1 -1 )...
d (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) cupsdAddSelect: fd=22, read_cb=0x3de59dcf, write_cb=0x0, data=0x128790
d (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) cupsdAddEvent(event=job-state-changed, dest=0x816600(HPDeskJet895Cxi), job=0x128790(5), text="Job #%d started.", ...)
D (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) Discarding unused job-state-changed event...
d (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) select_timeout(-1): 11 seconds to process active jobs
d (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) cupsdDoSelect: polling 9 fds for 11 seconds...
d (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) cupsdDoSelect: kevent(3, ..., 16384, ...) returned 1...
d (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) event->filter=-1, event->ident=22
d (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) cupsdDoSelect: Read on fd 22...
d (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) (Job 5) PAGE: 1 1
d (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) cupsdAddEvent(event=job-progress, dest=0x816600(HPDeskJet895Cxi), job=0x128790(5), text="Printed %d page(s).", ...)
D (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) Discarding unused job-progress event...
d (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) notify_post("com.apple.jobChange")
d (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) cupsdDoSelect: polling 9 fds for 1 seconds...
d (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) cupsdDoSelect: kevent(3, ..., 16384, ...) returned 1...
d (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) event->filter=-1, event->ident=22
d (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) cupsdDoSelect: Read on fd 22...
d (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) process_children()
D (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) PID 80361 (/usr/libexec/cups/filter/gziptoany) exited with no errors.
d (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) cupsdDoSelect: polling 9 fds for 1 seconds...
d (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) cupsdDoSelect: kevent(3, ..., 16384, ...) returned 1...
d (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) event->filter=-1, event->ident=22
d (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) cupsdDoSelect: Read on fd 22...
D (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) (Job 5) File 1 is complete.
d (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) (Job 5) cupsdFinishJob: job->status is 0
d (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) cupsdRemoveSelect: fd=22
d (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) (Job 5) cupsdFinishJob: Closing status pipes ( 22 -1 )...
I (02/Apr/2008:17:49:29 +0200) (Job 5) Completed successfully.
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Printing to windows printer via SMB - Printing garbled text

Hi all.
I have been working on this issue for around 3 hrs this morning and finally figured it out. Thought I'd post what I did to help others with similar issues.
Here's my set up:
I have a PC with HP photosmart printer connected to it. I've a Macbook Pro that I connect to the PC via SMB protocol for file sharing. If I wanted to print from the mac to the printer I had to disconnect the printer form the PC and directly connect it to the mac. I wanted to be able to print from the Mac to the printer via the PC. Should be that hard right as I have already successfully file shared via SMB.
Well it was a little difficult. I did many a search on here and the web and eventually found the following article:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.4/en/mh2231.html
So, following these steps i tried to print a single page word (office 2008 for mac) doc from the mac. Hey presto! The printer kicked into life and started...
...problem was it spewed out around 20 pages of Garbled text! I tought it might have been print jobs stacked up from the last unsuccessful attemt at doing this but no, no jobs there. Thought it might have been Word/office for mac, etc. so tried to print from Text Edit but same thing.
After hrs of screaming, F'ing & Blinding I finally figured out it was to do with what printer I had it set up on. I went into Print & Fax in System Preferences, highlighted the printer and clicked printer setup tab. In the drop down tab I selected printer model. It was set on Generic.
In the drop down list there it shows a huge selection of printers. my particular model was not there so I chose the closest thing and selected that.
After exiting all that and trying again it worked.
I'm very happy.
Adam

Hi iVirtual, what Mac OS are you running, Leopard (10.5.4) or Tiger (10.4.11)? Also, is your printer directly attached to your pc or is it a network printer directly on the local area network? One last question, do you have a firewall (like Trend Micro or Norton Internet Security) on your PC?
From my Mac running Leopard, I have no problem printing to a printer directly attached to my WindowsXP machine. However, I don't have the same luck from my Tiger Machines.
When I print to any networked printer (by that I mean printers directly attached to the network) from the WindowsXP machine with SP3, I always have to use the IP address. The printer.local name no longer works since I installed SP3.
simonparker, If your printer is directly attached to your PC using a USB cable, I don't think you'll be able to see it with the Bonjour Printer Wizard application. Since your printer is shared, you might check your WORKGROUP name on your PC. Something you might check is this:
Do you have a password on your user account on the PC? You'll probably need a password on your PC account. I don't think you can share anything if you don't have a password (I could be wrong, but it has never worked for me without a password).
On leopard, when I added the printer to the Mac I did this:
1) bring up System Preferences/Print&Fax
2) Press the + sign under the printer list, when the add window pops up, choose the "Windows" icon and you should see your workgroup name in the left list.
3) Choose the workgroup and it should populate with your machine name.
4) Select the machine name in the middle list and you should get a login and password dialog box.
5) Enter your PC's Username and Password.
6) You should see a list of shared printers in the right most list.
7) Select the printer and then select the driver.
Your printer should now be configured on the Mac. I know that I had to enter my PC's user name and password several times before I could print.

Sharing out a printer via SMB on Lion

I have a complex situation where we share out a printer from a Mac workstation to a windows computer in another location. It worked fine until we replaced the Snow Leopard Mac with a Lion one. Now, the windows computer no longer sees the printer, even though the configuration is the same: SMB file sharing on, Printer shared out via printer sharing. I can see the SMB file shares, but not the printer.
Unfortunately, it has to be SMB and not Bonjour since the Windows computer is on another subnet. Is there any additional configuration we have to do to get this to work?

I have a complex situation where we share out a printer from a Mac workstation to a windows computer in another location. It worked fine until we replaced the Snow Leopard Mac with a Lion one. Now, the windows computer no longer sees the printer, even though the configuration is the same: SMB file sharing on, Printer shared out via printer sharing. I can see the SMB file shares, but not the printer.
Unfortunately, it has to be SMB and not Bonjour since the Windows computer is on another subnet. Is there any additional configuration we have to do to get this to work?

No printing via Bonjour from Windows

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.
Printing from Windows directly to the printers using Bonjour works.
Tested turning of the server firewall, but this did not help.
Any ideas waht could be wrong?

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.

Printing to a Windows shared printer via SAMBA

I'm trying to setup my mac to print to a printer shared via a Windows PC on my network. I have gone into system preferences / print&fax and added a printer, used the "Advanced" settings on the toolbar, chosen SAMBA and entered the address of the printer as smb://IPADDRESS/printername
When I try to print to this printer, it asks for a username and password. I enter it and then the document briefly appears in the printer queue and then disappears as if it has printed successfully. The document however never appears in my Windows printer queue or actually prints.
CUPS does not return any errors in the CUPS log file. CUPS actually says the printer is idle and accepting jobs.
A friend can print from a windows PC to the printer by using the address \\IPADDRESS\printer name in the manual windows printer setup (the printer does not show up in the browser).
I can also connect to the computer using Leopard's built in SAMBA networking by accessing smb://IPADDRESS so I know the server is active on the network and my username and password work.
Does anybody have any ideas why I am not getting an errors and it's still not working?

Well, that isn't too useful. Try this instead: Adding a printer shared by a Windows computer via SMB/CIFS.
You may find more by selecting Mac Help from the Finder's Help menu and searching for articles by keyword.

Unable to print to printer via WIFI

Hey Guys,
Did a search and read heaps of topics but didn’t find the situation that I have – so I hope one or more of you can help.
HP PC connected in a room about 3m away via Ethernet to Thompson TG782T. HP CM1312 laser connected to the HP PC via USB. Imac connected via WIFI. The Imac replaced an old Dell system also connected by WIFI. The Dell on windows XP could print via WIFI to the printer no problems.
Unable to print via Imac. HP PC running Vista Home premium. Printer sharing is enabled. Unable to even see the CM1312 in the Imac systems preferences.
Any ideas welcomed – thanks for your time..
Dan

The following is from Mac Help in the Finder's Help menu. Go to Mac Help/Index/P/Printers, adding and removing/Adding a printer shared by a Windows computer via SMB/CIFS
You can print to a printer connected to a Windows computer if it supports SMB/CIFS. The printer’s owner must set it up to be shared and use only the following characters in the name of the printer and computer: A-Z, a-z, 0-9, !, $, *, (, ), _, +, -, ‘, and . (period).
+To add an SMB/CIFS printer to your list of available printers, you need to know the printer’s workgroup name and (if necessary) the user name and password.+
+*To add a printer shared by a Windows computer via SMB/CIFS:*+
+1. Select the printer from the browser.+
+a. If prompted, enter the user name and password for the printer.+
+2. Choose the item appropriate for your printer from the Print Using pop-up menu.+
+a. Be sure to choose the correct printer model for the printer you’re using. For more information, see the documentation that came with the printer. If you have an HP PCL compatible printer that’s not listed, choose the printer model that most closely matches your printer.+
+3. Click Add.+
Dah•veed

Connect to a printer via TCP connection with wifi

Hi,
what i would like to do, is to connect a printer to the iPhone via wireless.
The printer is in the same wifi as the iPhone and the ip adress is known.
So what i started to to is, to create a SocketConnection with CFStreamCreatePairWithSocketToHost(...). But if i switch of the printer, the inputstream is created too, and is not NULL as expected.
Is this the right approach im using or is there a better possibilty to send strings to my printer using a tcp connection over wifi?
Regards,
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Welcome to Apple Discussions!
In the Help menu of the Finder is a little app called Mac Help. Most Apple apps and many 3rd party apps also use Mac Help. In Mac Help is an article called *Adding a printer shared by a Windows computer via SMB/CIFS*. This article is regarding sharing a printer that is connected to a PC over a network however, and not to a router, but may have info useful to troubleshooting. You might also check with your Linksys user guide for info on sharing this printer with a Mac over the network.

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I can print successfully to the printer via USB
I can install the printer successfully as a windows server attached printer (attached to the Buffalo)
But when I print, I get the following errors. I'm assuming the driver is expecting two way comms with the printer, but the Buffalo doesn't support this. Anyone any clues?
Thanks,
Tim
I [18/Jun/2009:20:21:51 +0100] [Job 12] Started filter /Library/Printers/EPSON/InkjetPrinter/Filter/pdftopdf.app/Contents/MacOS/pdftop df (PID 279)
I [18/Jun/2009:20:21:51 +0100] [Job 12] Started filter /usr/libexec/cups/filter/cgpdftoraster (PID 280)
I [18/Jun/2009:20:21:51 +0100] [Job 12] Started filter /Library/Printers/EPSON/InkjetPrinter/Filter/rastertoescp.app/Contents/MacOS/ra stertoescp (PID 281)
I [18/Jun/2009:20:21:51 +0100] [Job 12] Started backend /usr/libexec/cups/backend/smb (PID 282)
W [18/Jun/2009:20:21:51 +0100] [Job 12] recovered:
E [18/Jun/2009:20:21:51 +0100] PID 281 (/Library/Printers/EPSON/InkjetPrinter/Filter/rastertoescp.app/Contents/MacOS/r astertoescp) stopped with status 206!
I [18/Jun/2009:20:21:51 +0100] Hint: Try setting the LogLevel to "debug" to find out more.
E [18/Jun/2009:20:21:51 +0100] [Job 12] Job stopped due to filter errors.

Should have googled properly - see this is an issue using a usb driver for a network printer. So I'll go and get a cups driver and see what happens.

Mac os 10.5 accessing sun storage via smb

Dears
I have three mac 10.3.9 machines .those can access a sun storage device normallyin the same local net using smb.I installed another system 10.5 on those machines, but unfortunately trying to connect to the sun storage you can see the connecting bar for a very long time with no response.I installed a new mac Leopard 10.5.2 machine in the same network , and this last computer can connect to the storage server .So I upgraded the three one's to 10.5.2 with no improvemnt , even to 10.5.5.Those three if restarting as 10.3.9 can be connected .all network settings were checked.
appreciating in advance your help.
yahya

I apologize for the delay in responding to you. I was on the road all day yesterday.
OK. I switched the printer's Ethernet cable to a Linksys Switch (Model EZX S55W) that's part of this local network. That did not work. I swapped out the cable for one that I know works. Still no change. I switched the printer's Ethernet cable directly to a port on the router. No change. I even swapped cables here, too, but no success.
As I was doing all this, I was wondering: When I select the HP P1606dn printer in the Print and Fax "Add" dialog box, (see the image below) and the Print Using pulldown menu displays "Please select a driver or printer model" and the message "Searching for new drivers" appears under it (with the spinning wheel), why is it that the Ethernet connection to printer is critical to "finding" a new (printer) driver?
Isn't the utility searching through my system and libraries looking for a printer driver app for the printer that I identified/selected in the dialog box?
After all, if the dialog box lists the printer among those to choose from, hasn't the utility already discovered the printer via the Ethernet connection?

Font files corrupted via smb Win 2003 Storage Server

Files are accessed on a Windows 2003 Storage Server via smb.
I just received a "re-furbished" 27" iMac with Mac OS 10.8.2 installed. Any and all folders on the network containing Postscript font files show those files as grayed out. It appears to be limited to just Postscript fonts, NOT Truetype (.tt) or OpenType (.otf) fonts. It appears something is not recognizing the resource fork portion of the files (is it because they have no file extension?).
All other Macs on the network running older versions of the OS do NOT have a problem accessing Postscript Font files.
I'm just an end user looking for information I can pass along to our Network IT folks who apparently have limited Mac knowledge.
Any and all advice and/or technical resources would be greatly appreciated.

I do greatly appreciate the info in the "Font Management in OS X" article, but this does not begin to address the problem I tried to describe above.
The fonts in question reside in job folders on a network, running Windows Storage Server 2003 software and Mac users access those files via smb.
As needed, those fonts are copied from the network location to the application's font folder or to a local hard drive for loading via Suitcase Fusion. The activation of these fonts is NOT the problem. The font files, (specifically Postscript Font files), are marked as corrupted BEFORE they can be copied and activated.
This issue came about ONLY after I connected my new 27" iMac running OS 10.8.2 to the server. All other Mac users running older versions of the Mac OS did not have any issues, until the new Mac was thrown in the mix. Something in the Mac OS 10.8.2 or on the server is not recognizing the resource fork portion of the Postscript font files.
Once the folders containing Postscript fonts have been accessed by the Mac running OS 10.8.2, those fonts are then "corrupted," meaning any other users can no longer load those fonts as needed, because they are grayed out.
To underscore the significance of this issue, please understand that this is a prepress production workstation. The iMac was added because we could not install Adobe's CS6 Suite on existing hardware. Because of these issues, I can only use the new Mac to open InDesign CS5.5 and/or CS6 source files provided by customers, I then export an .idml file and work the job on my older "stable" Mac running Adobe's CS5 Suite.
So I hope you can come to understand that access to the exact versions of fonts used to create print production files is critical. Any substitution of fonts results in countless additional hours spent verifying that text wraps match previously printed samples exactly.
Few things are more frustrating than not having confidence in the integrity of files stored on one's own network. This is compounded by the fact that the "IT" function was outsourced to our company's headquarter's (offsite) years ago where the "IT" people seem to have minimal high-end knowledge of Macs.
Any other OS 10.8.2 users out there having this particular problem? Any other ideas?

Connecting MacBook to printer via wireless network

I have a wireless network via cable modem with some PCs attached and a printer but am having trouble connecting my new MacBook to the HP LaserJet 2100 printer via wireless. I do not have airport express and not sure I need it to have the MacBook print to this printer. Please advise.

Hi topgunner,
How is the printer connected? Are you trying to share it via a PC through wireless? Or is it connected directly to a router/hub that is enabled for printer sharing?

I cannot find the 'WPA passphrase' to connect my printer via wireless and cannot find it in Airport utility (MAC says it cannot find any open airports)

MAC OS X 10.6.3 - desktop Mac
I browsed similar questions and saw that someone recommended going to the Airport Utility and then selecting manual set up or something- anyways, it could not find any airports. I have brought my printer from my house as my BF's has died - this is the first time it's asked for a WPA passphrase. We tried a very long series of capital letters and numbers as well as the password for the internet and both times the printer said "invalid passphrase"..... ......

Airport Utility is for administration of genuine Apple Base Stations. If you have a different Brand, Airport Utility can do nothing for you.
I think they're using ethernet.
To connect a Printer via Ethernet, no password is needed.
We already tried the password for the internet and that did not work...
If a password is required to connect to the Internet, then WiFi is likley being used, and that WiFi password is the one needed for the Printer connect wirelessly as well.
What make&model Printer? Is it indeed a Wireless Printer? Most connect via USB, but that would force it to use a specific computer to assist in printing.

Laserjet 200 will print via wireless direct but intermittently (once) via wireless network

Tried various troubleshooters on Hp and Apple websites to get this working consistently.
Installed new drivers for OSX Yosemite 10.10 - thought all would work fine as went through installing, printing test page etc. Then printer becomes unavailable - although it is on the list of printers.
Same thing has happened variuos times after re-installing it.
Will print directly via USB and wireless direct - but I want to print via the wireless network.
tried all the usual things - making sure on the right wireless network, restarting everything etc.
Using an airport router - are there some settings on this that may be causing an issue - odd though as will print once when initially connected to the wireless network.
Any ideas?

Hi @iphonebore,
Welcome to the HP Forums!
I understand that your HP Laserjet 200 M267NW will not stay connected to your wireless network running Mac OS X 10.10. I am sorry to hear this, but happy to help!
Please see the following guides:
'Printer is offline' Message Displays on the Computer and the HP Printer Will Not Print. (Follow the steps for Mac OS X 10.7, and 10.8, as they will work on 10.10.)
Printer Does Not Maintain a Wireless Connection. (This will help you with maintaining the wireless connection.)
As well, please see this post, Incoming and Outgoing Printer Ports, by @VisionAiry, and verify that none of these ports are being blocked by your router.
One more place for some more wireless printing information is our HP Wireless Printing Center - Troubleshooting Issues website.
Hope this information is helpful, and thank you for posting!
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Upload PDF directly to printer via Citrix from off-site computers

Is it possible to upload PDF documents directly to the newer HP printers, especially the business printers and copiers (MFDs)? We have HIPAA-containing data that home-based users must print at work, and therefore cannot be sent via the cloud.
Our current printer vendor supports uploading PDFs directly, which our users are using. The workflow involves printing via PDFCreator, then opening the web interface print tab of the device they are printing to and uploading, via a browse button, the PDF document. The connection is handled through our Citrix remote access servers, everything is encrypted, and all data stays out of the cloud.
Because HP's ePrint is in the cloud, we cannot submit HIPAA-containing data via that route.
If no current HP products have that capability, can it be added? I would think a firmware update to have an upload option would be very doable. It appears that the ability to print PDFs is already present via ePrint--this would only be another way to submit a print job.
Our current printer vendor's device functionality includes being able to upload and print other print-ready formats, including .PCL and .PS files, but we aren't using that capability currently. It would be nice to be able to upload .DOC/.DOCX formats directly.

Hey SPS64,
Thank you for participating in the HP Consumer Support Forums! The steps you desire are not going to be found on Consumer grade printers, but may be able to be found on some of the Enterprise level printers from HP. I would advise posting this question on the Enterprise printing boards where there are many experts who would be willing to assist with your question.
http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/Printing-and-Digital-Imaging/ct-p/bsc-412
Best of luck,
Jason
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