Nora: How are your printers currently connected to your computer -- USB, ethernet network, etc.? Are some of them "shared" printers on the network (that is, connected, usually by USB, to one computer, which then shares it with other computers)?
> Hi Everyone, > > I am looking for any suggestions to solve my problem. I have always > had good luck with HP printers and I knew the old Apple Laser was made > by HP. So naively I bought an HP Office Jet d135 All-In-One and a 1200 > HP Laser printer. Once I hooked them up, I found they couldn?t work > together. I went through the routine of downloading new drivers to see > if that helped which it didn?t. Finally, HP came up with a workaround, > though a little inconvenient, that let them both work on my computer. > So later I bought a Photosmart 7350 for printing photos figuring that > if I couldn?t use it with my desktop, I could use it with my laptop. > However, I would really like to print from it from my desktop. > > When I bought Mac OSX Panther, it was suggested that this would solve > my problem using the Printer Setup Utility. Well, it didn?t. Is there > anything else I could do to make all 3 printers work on my desktop > short of buying a $300-400 HP Jet Direct? ? > > I have learned one very valuable lesson. Do not buy printers of the > same brand if you plan to mix them, or could that be a problem too? > ;-) > > > Nora > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be July 27. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
