Hi Mike,
to find out whether you canh share your printer, fire up printers on
your windows box, find your printer and take a look at the properties,
there should be a sharing tab. if sharing enabled is not greyed, you
can share it.
To access your printer once has been set to be shared, on the mac, go
to apps/utilities/printersetup and click add printer, pick windows
printing from the selector and workgroup from the locations, choose
your desktop that the printer is connected to, from the drivers list,
pick hp from the left side of the printers column, on the right side
of the column, find your printer and click ad. be sure to click ad
because if you don't all your work will go for nothing.
Note, your windows networkig features have to be enabled in order for
this to work.
On Nov 12, 2007, at 9:35 PM, mike coulombe wrote:
good evening: What is the deal on printers with the mac. Do you have
to use a
apple printer, or is there a way to use the hp printer I already have.
It isn't right by the mac, that's why I am asking before moving it.
It is however connected to a windows computer. I don't know if it can
be shared with the mac that way or not.
Mike.
