Shared printer doesn't

TC is alleged to share a printer. It doesn't. Any idea what I am doing wrong? I moved the USB plug from my hub to the TC USB port.

"TC is alleged to share a printer. It doesn't. Any idea what I am doing wrong? I moved the USB plug from my hub to the TC USB port."
You need to install the printer again while it is connected to the Time Capsule.
Click System Preferences, Print & Fax, click the + (plus) button to display a list of compatible printers that can be added.
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1253

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Shared printer doesn't appear on other Macs

I've had a Brother HL 4050 color laser printer for several months. It's worked great on my home network. I connected its Ethernet to my Time Capsule, and my wireless machines could print to it with no problems.
The only quirk has been that the printer would not appear automatically in the Add Printers dialog. I had to enter its Bonjour address (e.g. "Warhol.local" in the IPP dialog.
Now I want to reconfigure my network a bit. I have a G5 running Leopard that I'm using as a home media server. I want to connect the Brother printer to the G5 using USB, then share the printer via the G5 to the rest of my network.
I got the Brother printer working fine with the G5. I verified that the combo can print. I turned on Printer Sharing on the G5.
The problem is (as before) I can't see the shared printer on the other Macs. Unlike before, entering a Bonjour address (e.g. "Pema.local", the name of the G5) doesn't work.
I know the other Macs can see the printer over the network. Using Bonjour Browser, I see the printer "Warhol @ Pema" in the Internet Printer Protocol list. mDNSResponder shows an entry for "Warhol\032@\032Pema.ipp.tcp.local". But the Printer Browser simply won't show it. And I can't figure out the combination of Bonjour address and queue name to connect to the printer via IPP.
I checked the Console as a run the Printer browser, and I see an interesting entry:
2009.05.04 14:14:25 com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.mDNSResponder[555]) Exited abnormally: Segmentation fault
2009.05.04 14:14:25 com.apple.launchd[1] (0x10b970.sandbox-compiler[652]) Bug: launchdcorelogic.c:6703 (23714):0: mspolicynew(targetj, target_service, flags & BOOTSTRAPALLOWLOOKUP, flags & BOOTSTRAPPER_PIDSERVICE, false)
It seems that the Bonjour daemon is crashing when accessed by the Add Printer browser.
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And does anyone know how to set up the IPP dialog to print to a shared printer?

With the help of Greg's post above, I did figure out how to use IPP with the shared printer.
I did have some difficulty figuring out the queue name. On the G5 with the printer, it said the queue name as "BrotherHL_4070CDWseries", so that's what I tried first in the IPP printer dialog on my MacBook. But when I tried to print, the Print Queue window for the printer briefly flashed "Destination printer does not exist!".
I remembered the CUPS web interface, so I looked at that for my machine (http://localhost:631/) and the G5 print server (http://Pema.local:631/). When I viewed the printer list on the server, the URL was "http://pema.local:631/printers/BrotherHL_4070CDWseries".
So I went back to the IPP dialog, used "printers/BrotherHL_4070CDWseries" as the queue name, and it worked.
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We recently moved and had to set up our computers and printer sharing again. We have an aluminum imac hooked directly into our HP photosmart c4200 series. We want to print from our new macbook via printer sharing. However, we get a variety of error messages from the macbook saying that the printer is forbidden or that the printer is currently off-line. We have gone into settings and made sure that printer sharing was turned on both macs, reset/repaired permissions on both macs but still nothing. The only thing that is different is that when we successful printed from the laptop in the past it was a powerbook, now I have a new macbook and I am having the issues. Anythoughts? Oh and we are on a airport base station for our wireless router.

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After removing the Deny line indicated in the link above, I removed the printer from the remote computer and then added it back it. Two things happened, first when adding the printer back in, I no longer got the generic postscript printer driver as the default, but got the correct Officejet Driver. Second, It worked! Now to try it with my old 10.4.x powerbook to see if it's solved there too.
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When I print a Word document to a shared printer, print preview looks fine but the printed page has too much blank space at the top and doesn't print the bottom few lines.

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Mac Book doesn't print when connected to a shared printer.

I am hosting a shared printer in our office and no other computer but mine can print from it. Mine is the only one connected to it via USB. All of the computers are Mac laptops. I've enabled printer sharing and checked to see how the others were configured but can't figure out what's wrong.
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I had a 10.7 MacBook Air which printed just fine to a Lexmark 500n color printer shared from an olg G4 powerbook laptop. I upgraded it to a 10.9 MacBook Air, and added the printer as usual. When I print, it goes through the process and the file eventually disappears from the queue, but it never actually prints, and before it disappears from the list, I see "printing - the process gziptoany stopped unexpectedly with status 1". How do I debug this?

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I found OS X Mavericks: Solve printing problems which states that a shared printer needs to be on 10.5 or later, so I dug up another Mini which had 10.5 on it and tried that. The results were the same.
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I have JBOSS running on a Windows Server. Our applications on JBOSS use network printers which are installed on the server for printing purposes. This works fine so far, except for one case for which I ask you for support:
If I map a printer, which is (only) conneted via USB with a PC and shared in the network, the printer is available on the server with JBOSS and can be mapped, BUT JBOSS is not able to see this particular printer and print on it, while the other installed
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Error message when trying to set up shared printer

I can't seem to add my ancient agfa imagesetter to my list of printers. The rip software is running on an old mac running system 9. I've tried typing in the printer's IP address, but that doesn't work either.
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Ideally, I'd like to print directly to my old rip, but if I can't, if anyone can help me solve the "sharing" puzzle, I would greatly appreciate it!!

If you are using LELA delete it from your computer. It is not needed. Connect viw your wired computer to 192.168.1.1 username blank password admin (or whatever you made it) and configure your router manually.

Parental control problem printing to a shared printer

Hello chaps,
Here's an annoying one.
Two Macs, both running OS X 10.6.3. They are both on a wireless LAN, once has a Canon Pixma 4200 printer directly connected via USB with Printer Sharing turned on - Everyone allowed to print.
The problem: When my wife prints to the shared printer from her machine it works fine. When my kids try to print from their Parental Control-controlled account it doesn't.
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Hello chaps,
Here's an annoying one.
Two Macs, both running OS X 10.6.3. They are both on a wireless LAN, once has a Canon Pixma 4200 printer directly connected via USB with Printer Sharing turned on - Everyone allowed to print.
The problem: When my wife prints to the shared printer from her machine it works fine. When my kids try to print from their Parental Control-controlled account it doesn't.
The job comes up in the print queue but with On hold (authentication required) next to it.
The account has the box ticked to allow administration of Printers.
I can find no place to Authenticate, to get the job to print, even via the CUPS Web interface (that I'm not an expert in).
All clues gratefully received.
Anyone have anu clues
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MacBook won't print from shared printer on Windows computer

I've been trying all day to get my MacBook to print through my wireless workgroup network. I've found detailed instructions here http://macs.about.com/od/macwindows/ss/sharewinprttig.htm. I have a Canon Pixma MX330 Printer hooked up to my Windows XP Computer. The PC is hooked up to a cable modem and wireless router which I have been successfully able to use for internet for the past 3 years. I have a white MacBook with OS X 10.4.11.
I have completed all the instructions at the website stated above without any problems. The problem is that when I try printing something, nothing actually prints. My MacBook acknowledges that there is a printing in progress, the job is sent to my PC which signals that there is active data transport throughout the workgroup, AND my printer lights up. BUT the Printer utility on my Mac says the job is completed before anything actually prints. My printer doesn't signal any errors and neither does the PC. It seems as though the job has been completely lost in cyberspace.
Its been a hassle to print something from my computer for the past 3 years (my old printer wasn't compatible with Macintosh and I just got a new one), having to email it to myself then open it up from the PC to print and today I've decided to put all my effort into solving this problem.
I'd greatly appreciate any help. Thanks.

Hello Sarah897 and welcome to Apple Discussions.
When you have a Windows computer sharing its USB connection, you cannot use the drivers supplied by some vendors, and Canon is one of those. This is due to the Canon driver software for Mac OS X only being written to work with a direct USB connection. It will not work when shared by a Windows computer. (This is step 13 on page 4/5 of the link you posted. Also, this step is not entirely correct - or up to date - GimpPrint is long be renamed to Gutenprint)
So you will need to look at using a CUPS-based driver, such as those offered by Gutenprint. And in most cases the Gutenprint driver will work fine, providing your printer model is supported. And that could also be your issue here if you using a Gutenprint driver already. Looking through the list of supported printers with the latest version of Gutenprint, the MX330 is not listed. So you would have to look at using a different model of Canon driver within the Gutenprint list to see if you can get the printing to work - but this could take a lot of time and use a lot of paper and ink.
I would actually you look at purchasing an Airport Express. With this connected to your wireless network, you could connect the MX330 to the Express's USB port and then use the Canon provided OS X driver - no need to find a compatible driver while the good folks at Gutenprint get around to supporting this new model. The other benefit of having the Express is that you don't need the XP computer to be turned on in order to print from the Mac.
HTH
Pahu
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I have a Mac Pro running Snow Leopard using a shared Epson R380 printer connected to a G5 (running Leopard) . Most of the time it doesn't work, but occasionally it will. On the Mac Pro, the Epson monitor says "print job accepted" but doesn't change. On the G5, the Epson monitor shows the print job, but says "job stopped". When trying to resume the job, a warning box pops up on the G5 saying "Operation C0uld Not Be Completed - client-error-not-possible".
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Hi Kathy,
Generally the updates affect the permissions on files, so that is why the Repair Disk Permissions can resolve printing problems.
Given that you are using TCP/IP to connect to each other, then you would be using the same protocol to view and connect to the shared printer. What you can do next is open the CUPS printer page of your computer to see if the shared printer is visible. Do the following;
1. Open your Internet browser, such as Safari.
2. For the address, type
http://127.0.0.1:631/printers
and hit Enter.
This should show the printers installed on your computer and the printers shared on his Mac (Tamo). If it doesn't show his shared printer, type the following;
http://ipaddress:631/printers/sharename
Note that you need to replace ip_address with the IP address of your husbands Mac (Tamo) and 'shared_printer' with the shared name of the printer. So the address should look something like this;
http://192.168.44.47:631/printers/HP3200
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Regards,
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