Re: Can you print to a Canon S520 USB Printer plugged in to an Airport Extreme Base station

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From: Michael Paine (mpaine_at_tpgi.com.au)
Date: 02/18/05 

Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 09:48:19 +1100

The OS X side of things might need to be configured to share the
printer, via networking, with VPC (which looks just like a separate
Windows PC to OS X). Go to System Preferences / Sharing and select
Printing to do this.

In VPC go to Add Printer, select Network printer and Browse for the
Canon. IF it shows up you are in luck! Now for the tricky bit - do not
select your printer model from the list. Instead choose a Canon color
postscript printer driver (in Win98 I use Canon PS-IPU Color Laser
Copier). This is because OS X makes its printers look like Postscript
printers to Windows PCs on the network.

Michael Paine

David Blaymires wrote:
> Hi,
>
> VPC 6.1, running Windows 2000. Canon S520 USB Printer connected to Airport
> Extreme Base Station. According to the Airport for Windows manual:
> http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/airport/AirPortNetworksforWindows0190259.pd
> f
> you can print to a USB Printer connected to the Airport Extreme by setting
> up a Local port - TCP/IP when setting up the printer with the wizard. I
> have loaded the Windows Printer Drivers onto W2K, and my base station is
> configured exactly as described (same IP as shown, 10.0.1.1) in the manual,
> but so far no luck.
>
> Reading the VPC info, Help says you can print to a network printer. However,
> I haven't been able to get this to work, so am wondering if I am trying to
> achieve the impossible...
>
> Any help or advice appreciated.

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