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Printing via Airport Extreme, Extremely hard?

Written by Arnan on June 15, 2008 – 7:15 pm

So i wanted to print something, small page of text… But the printer is a complete bitch about it. Or is the driver?
I’m using the open source Hewlett Packard driver for my HP PSC1315 printer since HP doesn’t make a good driver for Leopard and i’m too lazy to give up on this printer yet.
The printer is hooked up to the Airport Extreme and i never really installed or tested it. So i did now. Installed the drivers, hooked everything up and started to print. Or so i thought. The printer stops in the middle of the first line of printing and the printer is halted by the software for a unspecified reason. When it’s hooked up to the local USB port it works fine.

Ok, stubborn… Dove into /Library/Printers and removed everything there. Re-installed the drivers and tried again. No dice… New drivers needed maybe. But no updates were there. Re-read the manual from the Linux Foundation (where the driver comes from). But everything seems alright.

Blah!

Why is it so hard to create a good driver/software for network printing for OS X? Or is Apple to blame because they’re ditching the Carbon system in favor of Cups? I would think Cups is widely supported though. Since it’s used in Linux for years. Or is the Airport Extreme to blame. I do remember printing via that thing though. However, when i connect the printer to my iMac and share it and then install it on my Macbook Pro it works fine and even assigns the right icon to it. All with the same drivers.
Would this mean the driver is fine? Network printing is network printing. So logically the Airport Extreme would be the culprit here? Bummer if it is!

Any ideas? Thoughts?

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