{"id":7667,"date":"2005-09-13T09:50:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-13T13:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2005\/09\/13\/printing-from-xp-os-x-10-4\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:33:39","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:33:39","slug":"printing-from-xp-os-x-10-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2005\/09\/13\/printing-from-xp-os-x-10-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Printing from XP -> OS X 10.4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Cross posted to <lj user=c0nsumer> and <lj user=macosx> for archival purposes&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Last night I ran into an interesting issue with regards to printing from an XP machine to an iMac running OS X 10.4, and I thought people here would want to know about it.<\/p>\n<p>First, the Mac has an HP Deskjet 952c connected to it, using the queue name which was automatically created when the printer was plugged in.<\/p>\n<p>Second, the client machine is running XP SP2 and has simply mapped to the printer over the network and has the appropriate driver loaded.<\/p>\n<p>The problem I was observing is that the XP machine would send a print job, and the Mac would report it as completed, but nothing would have actually been printed.<\/p>\n<p>The solution to this problem is to access the CUPS web-based management stuffs (http:\/\/localhost:631) and edit the printer so that it&#8217;s queue name has no spaces in it. In my case I just removed the spaces and replaced them with underscores. Next I deleted the mapped printer on the XP machine and reconnected it, and everthing was fine.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been told by a friend that OS X Server actually warns a user about such potential issues when creating a print queue, but I can say that the client version of the OS doesn&#8217;t present the user with any sort of notification.<\/p>\n<p>So, yeah. I hope that helps someone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Cross posted to and for archival purposes&#8230;] Last night I ran into an interesting issue with regards to printing from an XP machine to an iMac running OS X 10.4, and I thought people here would want to know about it. First, the Mac has an HP Deskjet 952c connected to it, using the queue\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-moved-from-livejournal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13960,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7667\/revisions\/13960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}