Queue Based Printing with Netware 6.5

I have just picked up a client who just upgraded to Netware for small
business 6.5...They want a HP Laser Jet 4m plus installed...They still
want to use queue based printing...I went to HPs website and saw that Web
Jetadmin is bye bye...First off, is that true, second off, how to I set
up the print queue....I set it up in NDS but it doesn't seem to
work..maybe it's because it doesn't know what IP address..Please
advise...Thank you.

> > "Andrew Z Carpenter" <[email protected]> wrote in
> > message news:[email protected]...
> >
> > Not at all. JetAdmin is dead, and WebJetAdmin was
> > released to replace it. http://www.hp.com/go/webjetadmin
>
>
> <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>
> Thank you Andrew but here is what I saw in the online
> documentation: "Print queue configuration is supported on the
> following Novell NetWare operating systems: 5.1 and 6.0 (with
> IPX enabled)."
>
> It doesn't say Netware 6.5...So when I go to set up my queue,
> I see I can only set up Windows Print Server Queues...There is
> also a place where I can type in the soc alled Print Server
> name and it will go find it....When I type in the Netware Server
> name it says it's a Windows XP machine.... Maybe I'm lost a
> bit....Can you advise me on how to use WJA 7.8 and how to
> set up Netware Print Queues.....Thank you in advance...
My situation isn't quite the same as yours, so what I tell you
now may not apply.
We are a NetWare 4.11 network with IPX protocol loaded on the
servers. We use standard print queues, not NDPS.
To set up a new printer to a print queue, I follow this procedure:
First, create the Queue:
1. Open NetWare Administrator (NWADMN32.EXE).
2. Select the container into which you wish to place your objects.
3. From the tools menu, choose Print Services Quick Setup (non NDPS).
4. Name your PS, P and Q objects as you wish, and specify a volume
and server upon which you wish the queue files to reside.
Now, configure the Printer:
5. Open WebJetAdmin, and double-click on the printer you wish to set.
6. From the drop-down menu, choose Configuration.
7. Choose the Network Configuration category.
8. If you wish, you may specify your Ethernet Frame Type, or leave
it on Auto.
9. Ensure that IPX is enabled as a Protocol Stack.
10. Under NDS configuration, enter the Print Server object name you
specified earlier.
11. Choose your Tree.
12. Browse to the context in which you created your PS object.
Once you apply those settings, and restart the print server, it
should service the queue.
You could also try to find an older version of HP's Install Network
Printer Wizard. I use version 3.06 and it works perfectly. This
will create all the NDS objects for you, configure the printer, and
add it as an available printer on your workstation, all at the same
time. Newer versions of the software do not support NetWare.
I hope this has been of some use to you, and anyone who finds this
message in the future (hello to you, person reading in the future).
Andrew
AZC

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Will service pack 2 will sove this problem? Is there any issues for
deployment of SP2

> ,
> > We have a Netware 6.5 SP1 server used for queue based printing with HP
> > Print Servers.However very often queues do not respond and we re-start
the
> > server so that queues will be operational.
> > Will service pack 2 will sove this problem? Is there any issues for
> > deployment of SP2
> >
> Are these printers configured as queue servers or remote printers?
These are queue servers with HP Jet direct cards
>
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Unable to print to Sharp MFP using Queue based printing

Help
I am testing some Sharp MFP's and am unable to get them working using QUEUE based printing.
Everything is ok with NDPS.
I have setup the Printserver, printer and queue in NW ADMIN.
The printer server is logged into the Netware 6.5 server, I can see in the monitor screen.
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Tommyc17,
> I am testing some Sharp MFP's and am unable to get them working using
> QUEUE based printing.
> Everything is ok with NDPS.
> I have setup the Printserver, printer and queue in NW ADMIN.
> The printer server is logged into the Netware 6.5 server, I can see in
> the monitor screen.
> When I setup my printer on the XP client and send a test job I can see
> it in the queue in NW ADMIN.
> But not job is delivered to the printserver.
> Reading some strings it suggest problems with 8.7 E Directory.
> Can anyone help a Netware novice?
Question is: why? If it works with NDPS then use NDPS and if you need a
queue for anything, then just have the NDPS-printer servcice it.
Anders Gustafsson (NKP)
The Aaland Islands (N60 E20)
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HP LaserJet 2420n and Queue Based Printing?

I'm looking at a new workgroup printer and am leaning towards the HP
LaserJet 2420n
The price is about right, I'm sticking with HP, and this seems to be the
replacement for the 2100, 2200, and 2300 series which I liked a lot.
It has a built in JetDirect, although I can't find which model.
HP's site says this:
Compatible Network Operating Systems:
Via HP Jetdirect print servers: Microsoft Windows 98, Me, NT 4.0, 2000,
XP, XP 64-Bit, Server 2003; Novell NetWare 3.2, 4.2, 5.x, 6.x; Apple Mac OS
8.6 and later; Red Hat Linux 6.x and later; SuSE Linux 6.x and later; HP-UX
10.20, 11.x; Solaris 2.5x, 2.6, 7, 8, 9, 10 (SPARC systems only); IBM AIX
3.2.5 and later; MPE-iX, Terminal server/Citrix
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That is the only mention of NetWare I can find about this printer. Does
anyone out there have one already? Can it be used with Queue Based (non-
NDPS) Printing? Does the built in JetDirect support this natively?
Thanks for your help,
AZC

I just installed one of these on our network with queue bases services using
the web interface and it worked, once I figured out how to declare the
context for the queue.
Rui
"Andrew Z Carpenter" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:Xk7De.1833$[email protected]..
> I'm looking at a new workgroup printer and am leaning towards the HP
> LaserJet 2420n
>
> The price is about right, I'm sticking with HP, and this seems to be the
> replacement for the 2100, 2200, and 2300 series which I liked a lot.
>
> It has a built in JetDirect, although I can't find which model.
>
> HP's site says this:
>
> Compatible Network Operating Systems:
> Via HP Jetdirect print servers: Microsoft Windows 98, Me, NT 4.0, 2000,
> XP, XP 64-Bit, Server 2003; Novell NetWare 3.2, 4.2, 5.x, 6.x; Apple Mac
> OS
> 8.6 and later; Red Hat Linux 6.x and later; SuSE Linux 6.x and later;
> HP-UX
> 10.20, 11.x; Solaris 2.5x, 2.6, 7, 8, 9, 10 (SPARC systems only); IBM
> AIX
> 3.2.5 and later; MPE-iX, Terminal server/Citrix
>
> Note that NetWare 4.2 (and so also 4.11) is listed.
>
> That is the only mention of NetWare I can find about this printer. Does
> anyone out there have one already? Can it be used with Queue Based (non-
> NDPS) Printing? Does the built in JetDirect support this natively?
>
> Thanks for your help,
>
>
> --
> AZC
>

Queue based printing stopped after 6.5 upgrade

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Re-map print queues for clients with powershell

We reinstalled printer queues (share printer name is the same as before) and drivers on server, 99% users can't print properly, is a way to re-map print queues for all clients with PowerShell equivalent to remove and map again?

Hi Brent,
To re-map all of the printers, please check this script written by Boe Prox:
<#
.SYNOPSIS
Logon Script to migrate printer mapping
.DESCRIPTION
Logon Script to migrate printer mappings
.NOTES
Author: Boe Prox
Create: 09 NOV 2012
Modified:
Version 1.0 - Initial Script Creation
1.1 Added Header Text for CSV file
#>
Param (
$newPrintServer = "Server2",
$PrinterLog = "\\LogSVR\PrintMigration$\PrintMigration.csv"
<#
#Header for CSV log file:
"COMPUTERNAME,USERNAME,PRINTERNAME,RETURNCODE-ERRORMESSAGE,DATETIME,STATUS" |
Out-File -FilePath $PrinterLog -Encoding ASCII
#>
Try {
Write-Verbose ("{0}: Checking for printers mapped to old print server" -f $Env:USERNAME)
$printers = @(Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_Printer -Filter "SystemName='\\\\Server1'" -ErrorAction Stop)
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ForEach ($printer in $printers) {
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$newPrinter = $printer.Name -replace "Server1",$newPrintServer
$returnValue = ([wmiclass]"Win32_Printer").AddPrinterConnection($newPrinter).ReturnValue
If ($returnValue -eq 0) {
"{0},{1},{2},{3},{4},{5}" -f $Env:COMPUTERNAME,
$env:USERNAME,
$newPrinter,
$returnValue,
(Get-Date),
"Added Printer" | Out-File -FilePath $PrinterLog -Append -Encoding ASCII
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$printer.Delete()
"{0},{1},{2},{3},{4},{5}" -f $Env:COMPUTERNAME,
$env:USERNAME,
$printer.Name,
$returnValue,
(Get-Date),
"Removed Printer" | Out-File -FilePath $PrinterLog -Append -Encoding ASCII
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$env:USERNAME,
$newPrinter,
$returnValue,
(Get-Date),
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} Catch {
"{0},{1},{2},{3},{4},{5}" -f $Env:COMPUTERNAME,
$env:USERNAME,
"WMIERROR",
$_.Exception.Message,
(Get-Date),
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Trouble printing with my HP Deskjet printer using CUPS and hplip

tl;dr This 1,646 word post describes my frustration with CUPS and hplip. I cannot get my HP Deskjet F4400 set up with CUPS, and all the solutions I've tried don't work.
I'm running Arch Linux ARM on my Seagate DockStar, a small ARM-based "plug computer" that I use as a home server. My printer is the HP Deskjet F4480, which is part of the HP Deskjet F4400 series.
I previously had CUPS set up to share my printer with my home network, using hplip for the printer driver. I never upgraded CUPS or hplip because those versions worked fine, and I didn't want to break anything avoid breaking anything. The versions that I was using had to have been at least one to two years old.
Everything was working very smoothly... until a few days ago. The drive I was running Arch Linux ARM on became corrupt, so I had to install a fresh copy of the operating system. That meant losing all of the working versions and configuration files each application I had installed, including CUPS. I thought I had a backup image of the drive, but it didn't work when I tried to restore it. (Yes, it was stupid of me not to test my backup.)
Setting up CUPS was one of the first things that I wanted to do after reinstalling, since my family depends on the network printing functionality almost daily. Unfortunately, I could not get CUPS to work with my printer correctly. It wouldn't be able to display a list of drivers, HP's setup utility encountered an error adding it, and it threw various errors when I tried to print test pages. I ended up reading hundreds of forum posts, wiki articles, and CUPS/hplip tutorials to try to figure out how to properly set it up. I ended up spending a total of nearly ten hours trying to get the printer to print with CUPS, and it's still not working after all that work.
I'm going to explain in this post some of the many things that I've tried so far. I just removed all of the printing packages from my system and any extra files that were left behind. I'm now going to be installing all of the packages again and documenting everything that I have been trying to do to get it to work. I'll try to include exact error messages and logs where necessary.
1. I first found this article on the Arch Linux ARM website on how to set up a CUPS printer. I didn't really want to use webmin, but I did it anyway so that I could follow the guide. I installed all the packages mentioned except for cups-pdf, since I didn't need print to PDF support. Everything installed smoothly, and I configured CUPS and webmin to allow access to other computers on the network. I started to notice problems in the instructions - /etc/rc.d/cups was actually /etc/rc.d/cupsd, /etc/printers.conf was actually /etc/cups/printers.conf, and webmin didn't actually add anything to the printers.conf file. I uninstalled webmin at this point because I didn't need it, and I decided I wasn't going to follow that guide with incorrect information.
2. I then tried to set up the printer on my own using the CUPS web interface listening on port 631. I clicked the Add Printer button and it switched me to the HTTPS web interface. I then logged into the root account and was presented with the list of printers. My printer was listed as "HP Deskjet F4400 series (HP Deskjet F4400 series)", so I selected it and continued. I saw a list of printer models (PPD files) ending in CUPS+Gutenprint v5.2.9. There was no entry for my printer, so I tried the "HP DeskJet Series (en)" one. I set the default options and chose Maintenaince->Print test page. I then got a ridiculously simple error: "Unable to print test page: No such file or directory". How do I even know what file or directory it's referencing? I read online that it may be because I'm not in the lp group, but root is indeed in there. I saw in the error log "Avahi client failed: -26". I started dbus and avahi-daemon just in case, but I still got that silly error. I restarted cups and the same error message occured.
3. I researched online that pretty much the only way for my printer to have a driver would be to install hplip. Before installing hplip, I uninstalled CUPS, leaving cupsd.conf but deleting printers.conf. Then I installed CUPS and hplip together, with hplip requiring foomatic-db, foomatic-db-engine, and foomatic-filters. Everything seemed to install correctly. I started CUPS again and then ran hp-setup -i to try to install my printer. I selected USB and it found my printer, hp:/usb/Deskjet_F4400_series?serial=[printer serial number here]. I entered a simple name and then was told that no PPD file was found for the printer but that I could specify one manually. There were none I could find online; everywhere it just said to install hplip. I used the find command to find "f4400" and finally found 2 compressed PPDs located at /usr/share/ppd/HP/hp-deskjet_f4400_series-hpijs.ppd.gz and /usr/share/ppd/HP/hp-deskjet_f4400_series.ppd.gz. I gunzipped both of them and pointed hpsetup to the hpijs one, knowing that I was using the hpijs one when it was working before. It told me "Description for the file: HP Deskjet f4400 Series hpijs, 3.12.6". Hooray! I selected to use it, but then setup failed: "error: Printer queue setup failed. Please restart CUPS and try again." Ugh!
4. I restarted CUPS and went into the hp-setup process again. It gave me the same printer queue setup failed error. I don't know if these entries in the CUPS error log are related or not, but these errors relating to foomatic showed up. I restarted CUPS again and this time used the non-hpijs file with hp-setup. This one was called "Description for the file: HP Deskjet f4400 Series, hpcups 3.12.6". It failed again with the same error and the same entries in the error log. I found lots of posts online about this error, but none seemed to have a solution that would work for me. Now I tried running hp-setup in debug mode with -g. Here is what it said before the error. I then tried to Google "debug: addPrinter() returned (0, Unable to connect to CUPS server)". I saw on an Arch bug report to install dbus-python and python2-gobject, as well as create a symlink for /usr/bin/python2 to /usr/bin/python. It didn't work - same error.
5. I then tried to add the printer to CUPS via its web interface. Now there were two listed, HP Deskjet F4400 series (HP Deskjet F4400 series) and HP Deskjet F4400 series USB [printer serial number here] HPLIP (HP Deskjet F4400 series). So, hplip added the second one. I tried both of them, but after clicking Continue the page started to hang. I got another stupid, undescriptive error. "Unable to get list of printer drivers: Success". I saw the same foomatic errors in the error log as before. I then started reading the ArchWiki page on CUPS, located here. I tried the blacklisting usblp. I tried changing the permissions on the device node, although this starts to become ridiculous that it is even required to do that. Nothing was working; the printer installation still didn't work with hp-setup or with CUPS. Then, I found what I was looking for: the exact error I had on the wiki page! It said for "Unable to get list of printer drivers" you should "Try to remove Foomatic drivers." WTF? Foomatic is required for hplip, and hplip is required for my printer. I can't do that. Forum posts say to try that or do the permissions or usblp thing. Nothing is working.
6. I tried various other things to get it to work, even though I knew they probably wouldn't make it any different. I copied the PPDs from hplip to another folder and uninstalled hplip and foomatic. I then added them to /usr/share/cups/model and CUPS successfully found them and set up the printer. I reinstalled hplip and foomatic since they're needed for those PPDs to function, and I tried printing a test page. It failed. I tried using the CUPS web interface to modify the printer driver; nope, that wasn't going to happen: "Unable to get list of printer drivers: Success".
That concludes the list of some of the things that I have tried so far. I really want to get this printer working, but right now I am really fed up with CUPS and hplip. It's things like this that make me hesitant to recommend Linux to anyone else. So much manual configuration and tinkering the inner workings of things is required to do tasks that would be quite simple on Windows. For example, I can plug this printer into my Windows 7 machine right now, wait for the driver to automatically be installed and configured, and have a test page in my hands less than a minute after I first plugged in the USB cable. I can share the printer with any other Windows machine on the network by checking a single checkbox.
But back to my problem with getting the printer to work on my DockStar. I just uninstalled all of CUPS, hplip, and foomatic again and removed all of their files. I can walk through things to try that you guys post and then give you full logs of everything - just give me exactly what to do and install and the exact order to do it all in. I just don't know what to do at this point and am so frustrated with this that I'm about to give up.
Does anyone have any suggestions on how to get this printer working? I know this was a very long post, but I just wanted to explain everything that I've tried and how nothing worked. I really hope that we can figure this out so that I'll be able to print, and maybe it'll solve a few other people's problems with their printers, too. Thanks for reading, and thanks in advance for the help.

Had similar issue with my HP Deskjet F4500C All in one printer, here's what I did:
make sure these packages are installed or install them
pacman -S cups cups-pdf hplip pyqt3 python2-pyqt
pacman -S system-config-printer-gnome
rc.d cups start
To add device and install hp driver:
1. Run ‘hp-setup’ as root.
2. Click ‘Show Advanced Options’ button and check-enable ‘Manual Discovery’.
3. Enter IP address 192.168.59.63 in the ‘…device ID…’ entry and click ‘Next’ to install driver.
run system-config-printer as root, to add printer
# system-config-printer
click “Add”， Select Device -> Network Printer -> input the IP address of the printer such as “192.168.1.3″, click “Find” -> “Process”
you should be ok from here, if not some further steps:
If you encounter the following error:
File “/usr/share/system-config-printer/newprinter.py”, line 1531, in getNetworkPrinterMakeModel
debugprint (host + “: ” + args)
TypeError: cannot concatenate ‘str’ and ‘list’ objects
You should comment out the error line at 1531 of newprinter.py, and then continue to add the printer.
4). Finally, you can run hp-check to see what problems exists for the printer.

Hp3070a not wireless printing with windows 8

Help! Going mad! My printer use to print wirelessly and then stopped. I reset once by looking on google but now don;t know what to do. I have Surface tablet with windows 8 (i think!). Prints with USB fine. Thank you so much. Ruth

Hi ruthk726,
I'd like to help you get the printer working wirelessly again with your tablet.
Use the solutions in 'Printer is offline' Message Displays on the Computer and the Printer Will Not Print. This document does address these other symptoms as well:
Printer won't print
Print jobs are stuck in the print queue
No response from the printer
Please Note: Solution one will advise you to download and install the HP Print and Scan Doctor; however, the HP Print and Scan Doctor does not support Windows RT for ARM-processor based tablets or computers. Please proceed to the next solution. (Solution two: Restart the computer and check the print queue)
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AIX-based printing and PDF file generation

Greetings,
looking to find a best practices approach to scheduled printing of pdf BOXI reports hosted by in an AIX environment to a Windows AD secured network printer.
Looking at three possible approaches:
1. AIX-based printing: lpr queue with some ghostscript translation to postscript
2. Windows-based printing via SAMBA: AIX based printing using samba services
3. Windows-based printing via FTP: transfer the file out from the AIX server and script the printing using Control-M
Leaning towards #3 presently. Expert guidance would be greatly appreciated.
Martin

Hi Martin,
I faced a similar situation at a client site and after actually trying out Option 1, then considering the cost of Option 2 (resources, skill sets and long-term maintenance), we decided to go for Option 3.
With Option 1, we used the lpr queue commands to send the reports to particular printers (print queues) on the that were registered on the AIX box. We faced two major problems with this approach.
(1) We had what we called the 'default' printer problem, where, may be based on the volume of pages we were printing or the performance issues on the server itself, print jobs would go the default print queue on the AIX server. As you can imagine, that was not good. Jobs that were intended for one department were ending up in another, and the default location had to start parsing through the print outs and create piles. Operational nightware.
(2) Cover sheets... We had 1 report (basically a form) that needed to be printed with data for different departments (six depts). So a developer wrote a little java app that called BusinessObjects and passed in the report parameters - and ID, and the printer name. The problem that we faced was that the print jobs would come out the other end, each with its own cover sheet. Even though we passed in the AIX command to suppress the cover sheet, they came out. I don't remember whether specifying the switch in the CMC worked or not - but we didn't have that luxury - we had to do programmatically because the printing was so dynamic.
So we opted for a rather simple situation, which was made possible also because the customer's license allowed it. We installed the report job servers (no CMS) on a windows servers, assigned them to the CMS pool on the AIX server, installed the printers we needed on the Win server. Then we created a Server group that included just the Windows servers (report processing servers), and locked the report in question to only be processed by servers in that group. So the report would only be processed by the Windows servers with the necessary printers.
The solution has been in operation for over 12 months and working great. We can manage all the servers from the CMC and with auditing turned on, we have great visibly on the performance of the system. Because this printing system is so critical, the process is being enhanced by throwing the stats on an Xcelsius dashboard for real-time monitoring by the operations folks.
Hope this helps. I'll be glad to share more if you're interested.
Will

IPP / LPD Printing with HP Photosmart 6180

I've connected my HP 6180 to my home network and manually assigned it an ip address. I've been trying to print to it over the internet using IPP (port 631) or LPD (port 515) but have been unsuccessful. (I have a number of printers currently set up at both my office and home that can be printed to from anywhere, so I'm fairly familiar with this.)
When sending a print job, I'm always given the message "host server is busy, will retry in 30 seconds." Any idea why this isn't working? Is it that the HP 6180 doesn't support/allow printing over the internet? Is this a queue issue or driver issue?

Hi, I’m not having any problem adding the printer and printing on my home network (LAN) . . . in fact, I have no problem adding the printer for LPD or IPP printing using “myaccount.dyndns.info:port” . . . I can ping the device over the internet, but when sending a print job, I get the message "host server is busy, will retry in 30 seconds." I’m successfully doing this very set up/printing with four other printers using IPP (port 631) or LPD (port 515) but can’t seem to get the HP to work. There doesn't appear to be any option for HP IP or HP TCP/IP in the "select printer drivers" area.
If I understand you correctly, I need to download and install a CUPS-based driver for the Photosmart C8180?

Old host-based printer can be networked using Airport Express

Was thrilled to find out that my old HP printer works (uh, at least it DID work) as a wireless network printer because of Airport Express! (THAT's why I paid more for a router with a printer port.)
According to HP, my old HP LaserJet 1020 printer is host-based and therefore supposedly NOT network-compatible. (True, a host-based printer CAN be shared among computers on a network as long as the printer is connected to the powered-on main computer, but I wanted more than that.) BTW, the HP 1020 shares drivers with the network-compatible 1022.
But AX doesn't care whether a printer is host-based. Took several steps (including Bonjour) to get it to work, and I've printed wirelessly from both my PCs with the HP LaserJet 1020 plugged into the AX USB port.
First I installed the HP drivers (1020/1022 plug and play, from the HP website) and set up and printed from computer 1. Late at night, maybe I did this through Bonjour, but I think instead I was able to just find it through Windows > Add a printer). It defaulted to an HP 1020.
Next I installed the HP drivers and set up and printed from computer 2. Bonjour didn't find the printer, so I did a manual setup through Airport Utility, choosing TCP/IP and entering the IP address of the AX (10.0.1.1). I chose to set it up as an HP 1022, based on my limited understanding that some folks report better results that way.
When I went back to print from computer 1, I printed a file successfully. However, even later that night (yawn), when I tried to print a second file from computer 1, the print job would show up in the queue as "printing" but would then revert to error.
Any settings advice out there? I've read that the 1020 has been known to crash the print spooler, so I may re-install on computer 1 as if it's a 1022. Should I change the spooler settings? Shouldn't need to "share" the printer through Windows, right? Do I need to add _1 to the printer's IP address on the second computer? At least it worked ONCE, so I'm confident this can be set up to work reliably.

Just wanted to provide my happy update. For whatever reason, all I had to do was redo the printer setup on computer 1, and all I needed was Windows Add a Printer, now tha I know what steps to take. I'm printing wirelessly to it through my network, yay!
So if you have a host-based printer (which HP support website says is not network compatible), you can still use it as a network printer, thanks to Airport Express! No need to plug the printer into a computer and use Windows Printer Share.

How can I print with a wider left margin in Preview? (OSX 10.5)

How can I print with a wider left margin in Preview? (OSX 10.5)
To punch Binder Holes.
Should be easy ... Make a Custom page with a wider left margin ... easy to set up, but it does not actually work for any printer I am connected to.
Info so far:
Found an older post from 2002 ... "Make a custom page"
Mac Help has a limited, simple, incomplete answer: "Make a custom page"
Tried three printers. One Postscript Level 3 One Level 2 and one non postscript
Switching between page types in the drop down shows a change in the print preview, and the floating information shows the correct page size and larger left margin... but the "Custom Page Size" does not show a larger left margin, in the preview, no mater how it is set.
There also appear to be a relation ship between the radio Buttons for scale and the margin settings.
Test prints have simply cut off the left side of the document, and scaled the document from the right side in and the top down.
Printing a PDF from Preview
MacBook Pro
OSX 10.5.6
Thanks
Peter

Thanks ... tried the Paper Handling, but no lock.
Based on the fact that any scaling, "moves" the image down and to the left on the paper ...
Th only "work around" solution is to ...
Rotate the PDF page 180, then scale slightly (90% or so ...)
This pushes the upside down page, down and to the left.
While this is the opposite of what is desired, the print is then correct when
it is punched and placed into a three ring binder.
Assumption is the application that creates the documnt, needs to have the paper margins set. The reality is, an application like Preview, that does not "create anything", needs to handle existing documents PDF, JPEG and print to Custom Page configurations.
ie: In Preview, Custom Page does not work correctly,
Thanks allfor the comments and help ...

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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