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Printing to a Windows Printer Here are some suggestions of where to look if you run into trouble and experience problems when printing. For all of the methods documented in this guide, test each step to see where the problems arise. For example, when a printer is created, try printing a test page. Printing From Mac to Windows When printing from a Mac to a shared Windows printer, there are a couple of utilities available to verify whether or not the printer is installed correctly and working. These are: The CUPs printing system on the Mac has a web interface that lets you view and test printers. To access this, do the following: 1.
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Open a web browser and enter the following address: http://localhost:631 a. This will connect to the local print system. Choose Manage Printers and the list of printers configured on the Mac will appear. Scroll down the list to locate the printer. A detailed description of the printer is available here. Print a test page to the Windows printer. This will determine if the connection from the Mac to the Windows device is valid. The test job should appear in the Windows print spooler. As mentioned earlier, if a name is created with spaces or hyphens these are transposed to underscores for the actual printing device. Below shows an example where the description appearing in the Mac Printer Utility list has spaces in the name. Through CUPs the actual device name is shown. The description still contains the spaces but the actual device being printed to has underscores. In this instance, the path used in destinations would be “my_printer_with_spaces”. Another way to check the status is to use the terminal. 1.
Open a terminal from the Applications > Utilities folder In the terminal type: lpstat –p This will report on all printers configured on the Mac. 2.
Search for your printer in the list and verify the name. The format will be like: printer my_printer_with_spaces is idle. Enabled since Jan 01 00:00 3.
Try and print from the terminal. Locate a print file (run a test job with the correct driver and find the file in the raster folder in the installation directory) and type the following on the command line: lp –P<printer> <jobname> For the example of a HP printer, we can type the following: lpr –Php_t1100_via_tanglefoot Quickcal_230166.rtl Serendipity Megarip User Manual – Version 5.2 102