Set up macbook to use network printer

how do I set up my macbook to use a network printer if I have a wireless router that isn't an Apple product?

Hi Katie,
Is Printer Sharing still setup on the XP PC?
Might try Bonjour for Windows to make it easier to see the Print Services offered by the PC...
http://support.apple.com/kb/dl999

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We have some embeded win7 devices which we cannot install drivers to.
Is there any method to use network printer without installing driver?

Hi,
Please read the following article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Device_driver
You definitely need this middle man.
Regards.
BH
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Is there any methods to use network printer without installing driver?

We have some embeded win7 devices which we cannot install drivers to.
Is there any methods to use network printer without installing driver?

Hi,
Please refer to your other post:
http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/forums/replypage/board-id/Printing/message-id/77319
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Unable to connect my Macbook to a network printer

Hi,
My problem is specific to Canon iR2016 printer model which is connected to a router which in turn is connected to a wireless router. I want to connect my macbook pro to this printer, which somehow I am not able to.
Till now I have gone to "Print & Fax", clicked on "+" sign, then clicked on the "Windows" tab. There I can see the network printer listed. I select it, then asks for software driver or printer model. Now here I select Printer model, but my model iR2016 is not listed. Then I select generic Post script printer and Add. The printer gets added, but when I print, nothing prints. I also tried with generic laser printer option, but no luck.
Look forward to feedback.
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Checking the Canon Australia web site the iR2016 lists UFR2 and PCL5e/PCL6 as supported print languages. Postscript was an option and given that the Generic PS did not work then it would be safe to assume that this option is not installed.
If you have installed the UFR2 v1.80 driver then you add this printer by selecting More Printers > Canon IP (UFR II). If you have installed the v2.xx driver then you simply select IP > LPD for the protocol. This then requires you to enter the IP address of the iR2016 and then you can browse for the iR2016 in the Print Using menu. However this is for a direct IP connection. You cannot use the UFR2 driver via the Windows share, which you mention trying.
So if the printer has its own Ethernet connection to the network then select to add the queue using IP > LPD, enter the IP address of the iR2016 and in the Print Using menu type 2016 to filter the list to the correct model. It should show UFRII in the name. Select this and you should be able to print.

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I am a new iMac user with quesiotns regarding netowrked printing. Any advice/explanations would be appreciated.
I am using an Epson RX580 printer which is physically connected to a Windows PC. I am able to print from the Mac over a wireless connection through a Belkin router and the PC. I was running into trouble with print quality when printing photos (faint pictures) as well as text (dot matrix quality) from the Mac. I checked on the Epson website which advocated NOT using the Gutenprint drivers. I downloaded the latest driver from Epson's website. However, I do not know how to find that driver to identify it as the one to use. In the Print dialog box, I chose the Epson SP RX580 driver, which looks like just one of the long list of provided Apple drivers, so I do not know if it is actually the updated driver or not. In any case, when trying to print using this driver, the whole process locks up when I click on Print for some reason, and then I have to do a Force Quit.
My questions:
1. How can I find out if the proper driver has been downloaded and installed?
2. I have read posts on this forum suggesting incompatibility issues with Epson printers and Macs. Is there any truth to this? I note that Epson's website seems to give instructions regarding avoidance of Gutenprint drivers on computers running OS X 10.5, so I assume the Epson printers are ok to use if the right driver is used.
3. I have not tried direct connecting the printer to the Mac, but wonder if my problem may be due to the network situation. Obviously, I am able to print with the Gutenprint driver, so it isn't an issue of the Mac finding the printer, but rather of print quality.
4. I have contacted Epson as well, but am not sure how much help they will be, so wanted to see if I could get any answers from this forum.
Thanks.

Michael Bernstein1 wrote:
I have downloaded the Gutenprint drivers and installed them. I added the printer using "Print & Fax" and clicked on Windows to locate the printer. I can print to the printer now. However, the print quality is still lacking. I have tried to adjust the print settings, but can't get it right. I want to print text docs, but also photos from the Mac through the network outlined above.
In general, I recommend that you use a higher quality setting such as "High" rather than "Standard" for most Epson printers. For photos, I would suggest that you set "Color Precision" to "Best". Also be sure to set the "Image Type" to the proper setting for the job you are printing. There are options for Text, Text and Graphics, Photograph, etc. You may also find that setting the Composite Gamma to 0.8 will improve the output.
Also, my "borderless" photos (4x6) still come out with a very thin border...
Did you set the printer feature to print borderless? What about the setting to Expand to maximum print area rather than Shrink to fit the page?
Any other tips?
There are almost too many settings with the Gutenprint drivers. If you are often switching between text and photograph printing, you may want to create Presets for the different settings.
Matt

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Hi, i am having trouble connecting a HP OfficeJet 7612 to a Macbook Air running OS X Yosemite 10.10.2 (14C109).
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When searching for printers through the HP Utility setup or just by adding a printer it does not show anything in the list of available printers.
There is an iMac in the office running Yosemite and that found the printer straight away, asked to download additional software and was working in minutes.
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In the printers EWS chaning the Bonjour Highest Priority Service to 9100 Printing.
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Well please list the Windows PC (version of Windows) you are Sharing the printer and how you are sharing (Windows 7 HomeGroup doesn't work outside Windows). Plus are you telling OS X 10.6.x where to find the shared printer?
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I noticed that you replied the similar thread, have you tied to the customer's resolution(Update/Reinstall the 32 bit driver on the network Print Server and then re-install the network printer, and then ran malwarebytes and
removed malware.)?
Then, we may try to plug the USB cable from your printer into an available USB port on your PC to test if possible.
If the issue still exists, I recommend we go to Event Viewer and collect the Event log. It'll help us to troubleshoot the issue, you could upload here.
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Trying to network a PC and MacBook to use HP printer

I'm trying to set up a friend's HP All-in-one printer 7310 using her MacBook Laptop(which is not her primary computer).
The printer is NOT wireless, so I'm trying to go through her PC using Linksys. The PC and another PC laptop can print with no problems using wireless. Although MacBook picks up the wireless network with no problem, I can't get it to talk to the PC and then print. It starts the "opening connections" screen, but then stalls and finally says it can't find the printer.
I've also set the desktop PC to share the printer.
What am I doing wrong. Please help and go step by step for the novice with the PC world.
thank you!
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Does Anyone have any suggestions as to how to resolve this issue? Can Anyone point Me in the direction of documentation which could help?
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I figured out the answer using this excellent Web page: http://www.ifelix.co.uk/tech/3000.html.
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I don't know if this will work, but I stumbled this the other day when trying to force an existing Mac printer to use a new HP driver (which I'm still trying to figure out)...
Go to System Preferences, Print & Fax, click the "+" button to show the Printer Browser window then click the More Printers button. It will think for a minute or two then (hopefully) show a list of printers on the network to choose from.
I just did this for the first time and it found plenty of printers on our Windows 2003 servers. It keeps failing to print but I think that's because of some Active Directory trust-relationship problem. You should hopefully have better luck at home.

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okay this is weird.
if i try to network my macbook my G4 the G4 doesn't appear in my network list. I also cannot share the printer connected to my G4 because it does not appear in the printer setup.
now, if I try to network my g4 to my macbook, all works fine - the macbook appears in my network dialouge box.
so what gives?
I can print to network printers at my job which is a PC network.
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