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Re: [Digital BW] Anyone is using a network printer with Mac?

2003-09-11 by Loring Palleske

You would have to use printer sharing.
Does the 1160 have a usb port or only parallel?

There are a number of very informed people on the OSX groups - you may  
want to try there.

On Thursday, September 11, 2003, at 06:31  AM, TB_Lin wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> Does anyone here use Mac to print to a network based printer (either  
> on a dedicated
> print server or a computer that is not a Mac) ?  I bought a Hawking  
> PS12U print server,
> while everything works very well with PC, including Piezo plugin, I  
> couldn't get it to
> work on Mac at all. I couldn't figure out a way to tell OS 9 to print  
> to my Epson 1160
> hooked up to the print server, it seems that OS 9 requires a  
> postscript printer to
> work.
>
> Kinda same story for OS X (10.2.6 is what I'm using). The Epson driver  
> is not network
> aware and doesn't show up in the model drop down list when I try to  
> add a printer in
> Printer Center.
>
>
> If this setup won't work because of the printer limitation, what  
> printer should I buy?
> No I can't afford wide format ones nor dedicated RIPs. I sort of know  
> that I need a
> printer that has a network aware/compatible driver, but the question  
> is which printers
> have this type of drivers?
>
> Any workaround here? Any suggestion is appreciated.
>
> --Li Lin
>
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Regards,

Loring Palleske
Creative Imaging
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