Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Wireless Printing with a Mac

Problem: A user reported that she couldn't print to a network printer unless she also had her MacBook Pro physically plugged into the network. The printer is an HP Color Laserjet 4600, installed with the standard HP driver, which works just fine while wired. So, I dusted off my MacBook and tested wireless printing, too. Same thing, no print. Apparently, the HP drivers don't support wireless printing on the Macs; at least I couldn't get it to work.

Solution: I installed another instance of the printer on the Mac, this time choosing "Generic PostScript Printer". It works for me.......