Printing to Windows Printer

[Mayn]

Apple's Web site says "A list of shared Windows Printers" will come up
when you're networked to a PC with file and printer sharing enabled.
I've been trying to get this working for a month with my 10.4.2 ibook,
and WinXP (SP2) tower with my Canon Pixma i4000. No such list comes
up.

I've tried a variety of things -- including downloading the Canon
drivers to the Mac -- twice -- and after manually entering domain,
machine and printer names (and selecting one of the drivers comes up
under Canon BJ - none of which correspond to Pixma models) finally can
print MINIATURE versions of pages (unacceptable).

So I called Apple Care and they had me plug the Mac directly to the
printer.

The iBook then immediately knew it was connected to a Canon Pixma i4000
and WILL print this way -- but I STILL can't access the driver settings
to choose paper type, quality, draft, duplex, etc. So I can only print
standard quality/standard letter size only.

Fresh out of ideas.....

 

[michigan.gull]

i feel your pain. i have never been able to print to a printer hosted
by a pc from my pb (10.2.x, 10.3.x, 10.4) i did try the CUPS printer
monkey motion, no joy. tried hint after hint from macosxhints.com ,
still nothing. Also, not able to print from pc to printer hosted by
mac. pc's were running 98, xp, 2000. I did have a glimmer of hope with
a hp 3310 multi function, but required dl of like 3 different pieces of
software for each machine, patches, etc. so i gave up.

rick