Sharing printer with PC

OK, I'm stuck.
I have one Mac and three PCs(two laptops and one desktop), and I am trying to use the Mac to share a printer. I am doing this because the Mac does not restarted.
I have a workgroup setup and I can somewhat share files. I have no success sharing the printer. Any help would be great! I would like to just start from scratch, so PLEASE HELP!!!!

Most common issue - Mac print queues expect postscript input - even from PCs using the shared printer. So, use a postscript driver on the PC (Apple Color LaserWriter x/600 is good), so you will be sending postscript to the Mac.
http://www.ifelix.co.uk/tech/3000.html

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I've got a question on how to print on a shared USB printer with the Time Capsule. I think the answer is that I'm doing it wrong and expecting the impossible.
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I've got my Time Capsule in the basement (that's where the cable modem is) and it shoots off a nice strong signal to the 2nd floor and does our backups nicely. The printer is plugged into my husband's iMac. My iMac can see the printer and acts like it has access to it. But nothing happens when I try to print.
Is this simply because the printer must be plugged into the Capsule and there is no other way about it?
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Not too familiar with Windows, but is there not something in the Printer Dialog that selects B&W , Grayscale, or Color?

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I have an iMac 2.8Ghz Intel machine with a network printer (HP Business Inkjet 1100 connected via USB to a HP JetDirect Ethernet bridge thing).
I need to know if I can share the printer on my iMac with computers using Bluetooth. The reason for this is that when my work laptop (Windows) is on the work VPN, I cannot access my home network which connects to my printer. This means that every time I want to print something, I have to disconnect the VPN first which is a real pain. The VPN client doesn't allow for local network access (it's the Cisco one) and it locks down all other network ports on the laptop except the bluetooth radio. I have tested this by sending files to the iMac whilst the laptop is on the VPN and it works.
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Ok a simple quick but not so very recomended way to print in a hurry.
Share the printer on a machine that has it installed.
Log on to the machine that has the printer shared and right click on the printer and select the connect option.
Now go to printers and it will be there.
Note that you can print only until one machine is re-started.
To print on another occation just logon to the computer that has the printer shared and exit. ( to establish a session)

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New to Mac....sharing printer with wife's PC..help please

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Duplicate of first ever message posted elsewhere.
I have "Crossed to the Light Side" from PC to iMac.
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Once you've solved your printer issue, see these for enlightenment:
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MacTips, and
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Quick Assist.
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I am sure there's a topic about this somewhere, but I can't seem to find a clear answer. I have a PowerMac G4 that does not have wireless capabilites. I have a PowerBook G4 that does, and an Airport Express that makes everything possible. Last night I went to hook my laser printer up to the Airport Express. Everything went smoothly, but now I cannot print from my PowerMac. Is there a way that I can set this all up so both computers can use the printer without having to buy an Airport card for the PowerMac?
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Have you setup things properly?
For Windows XP , see this : http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/networking/maintain/printers.mspx
As far as your inability to see your networked printer on Windows 7 , this thread online seems to have fixed that users issue:
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Error message in shared printer queue.

I am now receiving an error message in my Macbook printer queues whenever I try to print from this Macbook to a shared Epson C120 printer attached by USB to my PowerMac G5.
When I highlight the queue line I wish to print, an error message reads : can't open `/private/var/spool/cups/tmp/50cea92d5d0a0'.
This has just recently happened. I have checked and rechecked my printer/fax options and my sharing options in both computer's systems and everything is as it should be. I can print just fine if I am using my PowerMac G5.
I Googled the error message and found a reader's fix from an Apple Support forum which I hoped would work. This was was to delete the printer in both computer's System Prefs, restart both computers and then put back the printer and sharing in both computer's System Prefs. This did not work.
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Mike,
Thanks for referring me to //support.apple.comkb/HT3771.
I carefully read the support.apple.comkb/HT3771 article and found a critical error in my Macbook Sharing Prefs page.
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I now remember that when I was able to successfully print from the Macbook these two boxes had info in them. The printer box had the name of my Epson printer and the user box said Everyone - can print.
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A printer HP OfficeJet 5608 conneted with one Windows XP computer via USB. And sharing on LAN.
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I can send the printing task to this printer, and the printer do seems responding, but the printing job just can't come out.
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Hi Kmanxx,
The update failure might be caused by a variety of reasons such as connection issues, incomplete Components and firewall. For troubleshooting, specific error code of the failure update will be helpful.
You also could find installation failure events and error code in log files, such as WindowsUpdate.log (C:\Windows\ WindowsUpdate.log) and CBS.log(C:\windows\logs\cbs\cbs.log). Here you first want to search for “error” in your logs. This will search for
Error entries. Focus on the day the installation attempt occurred. Refer to your time line of update log, find what error happened. Of course you could post your log content and we’d like to give it a look.
How to collect the specific error code of failure update:
We can do this by viewing your update history.
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Unable to install updates in Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2(also applies to Windows8.1):
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2509997/en-us
If all updates fail to install on a particular client or if for example you cannot install a Service Pack:
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