Printing on a Windows Printer in OS X

1443 days ago in Ask iBAM by Brent | 5 Comments

Here’s another quickie for the “Ask iBAM” crew out there. This one’s from Bob and he’s trying to print on a shared windows printer from his Mac on his network. Here’s his question:

I’ve tried and tried and tried to print from my macbook through my network to a printer connected to a Windows desktop. It will find it and show it in the printer pane, but wont print to it. Maybe there is a program that simplifies this? Help if you can.

Thanks much,

Bob

I was under the impression that recent versions of OS X did this semi-effortlessly as long as you had Windows sharing turned on in the system prefs. Then all you need to do is browse for the printer and the OS does the rest. However, he seems to have further issues and I don’t have any way to test this so I’m going to rely on those of you out there with previous experience. Any advice for Bob? Post your comments here and as always, thanks in advance!