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From:	Brett (BHALLE)	20 Jul 2006
To:	Stunt Engraver (DGL)	5 of 10

4390.5 In reply to 4390.4
If they are using Mac OS X (10.4 Tiger) then they should be able to use printer sharing with no problems. FYI, Mac OS X can use Postscript (for laser printers, etc.) but it's graphics imaging model is PDF. As far as True Type fonts, Apple invented True Type and licenced it to Microsoft ... True Type fonts are completely interchangable between Windows and Mac OS. Here's some specific details on sharing a printer with Windows: How to manually add a Windows shared printer Open Printer Setup Utility (located in /Applications/Utilities). Mac OS X 10.4.x users: Choose Add Printer from the Printers menu, then hold the Option key while clicking the "More Printers" button. Mac OS X 10.3.x users: Hold the Option key down while choosing Add Printer from the Printers menu. Choose Advanced from the first pop-up menu. Choose Windows Printer via SAMBA from the Device pop-up menu. In the Device Name field, type the name you would like to use for this printer in Mac OS X. In the Device URI field, use one of the following formats to link to the printer: smb://user:password@workgroup/server/sharename smb://user:password@server/sharename smb://workgroup/server/sharename smb://server/sharename Notes: "user" is the name of a Windows user who has privileges to use the printer. "password" is the password of that Windows user. "workgroup" is the name of the Windows workgroup to which the computer sharing the printer belongs. "server" is the name of the computer sharing the printer or its IP address. "sharename" is the shared Windows printer's share name. Tip: You don't need a "workgroup" when specifying the IP address of the computer (such as when the printer is on a different subnet), or if your Mac belongs to the same Windows (SMB) workgroup. Choose the appropriate PPD or printer driver from the Printer Model pop-up menu. Click Add. Hope this helps, --Brett

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From:	Stunt Engraver (DGL)	21 Jul 2006
To:	Brett (BHALLE)	6 of 10

4390.6 In reply to 4390.5
Thank you Brett. Very informative. :-) David "The Stunt Engraver" Lavaneri DGL Engraving Port Hueneme, CA

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From:	Dave Jones (DAVERJ)	21 Jul 2006
To:	logojohn	7 of 10

4390.7 In reply to 4390.1
Another way to go is to get a cheap ethernet print server which has a USB printer port on it. I know a couple of people that have turned USB printers into regular stand alone ethernet networked printers using these devices. Once it's a stand alone network printer all computers on the LAN should be able to use it without having to keep a certain computer turned on.

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From:	logojohn	21 Jul 2006
To:	ALL	8 of 10

4390.8 In reply to 4390.7
Thanks for all the suggestions. Sounds like it should work. Some of the MACs were just bought this last year so should be current. Got tied up with jobs and trying to get the new laser exhaust to work so didn't even get the printer hooked up to the pc yet. quote: a cheap ethernet print server which has a USB printer port on it I think we are over taxed already. The network looks like a work from Frankenstein. It started small with a single router with a few computers. Then several times a line off the main one to a new hub was added on the other side of the building. Now there are 4 or 5 hubs and some of them are connected to other sub-hubs with about a dozen total computers. There is an office laser printer that doesn't work with the toner transfer but uses an ethernet connection. And the new laser uses the network ethernet to. The old laser is just a shared printer that works fine that way. I have the sublimation printer and some others shared and there isn't any problem just sharing them the normal way.

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From:	Gary White (GARYWHITE)	22 Aug 2006
To:	logojohn	9 of 10

4390.9 In reply to 4390.8
Brett's advice is dead on. Using SMB it should work perfectly. I have a Mac as well and print to a LaserJet shared on a Windows network seemlessly

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From:	logojohn	22 Aug 2006
To:	Gary White (GARYWHITE)	10 of 10

4390.10 In reply to 4390.9
Thanks, I just finally got everything I needed to do some work with the laser transfer printer. I will try to network the MAC soon so they can print their stuff without bothering me. Got an order for 50 acrylics with a color photo of a building for their opening that I just got started on. Once I got the pad and paper from Mick, it was pretty easy to get them to come out with a little tweaking and testing for our press. I tried in on optical crystal. It was much more tempermental, but I finally got it to stay on. But it was easy to scrape off. Don't know if baking would help but likely not. .

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