Not really sure where to put this, but networking seemed like a logical place. I love this forum and if you can help me I will be forever indebted to you....okay, here goes:
I have been using ubuntu linux for some eight or nine months now, and still am. It is the only linux machine on a network with three windows machines (just a basic windows workgroup setup) which all share two printers (both attached to one desktop in the office - an HP Laserjet 2200 via USB cable and an HP Business inkjet 2230 via parallel cable). You, I'm sure, won't be surprised to hear that the linux desktop prints and interfaces flawlessly.
I cannot get the same results with my brand new MacBook Pro (I realize this is not a Mac help forum, bear with me). At first, with HPs drivers, it simply wouldn't send
anything to the printer. Since the Mac OS is *nix based, I looked into setting it up identically to my ubuntu box. Lo and behold, there is a hpijs package for mac, I copied over the linux ppd, and now I almost have it working, I just have a few problems:
- Now when I try to print, the data takes forever to reach the printer. Not forever to send from my computer, the printer just blinks the status light for a really long time before starting.
- Also, when the print job is done, the light keeps blinking and the LCD on the printer still reads printing. It remains locked up until rebooted
Okay, that's all really background information
My question is, where are all of the setting
files located that might have that one crazy specific setting I can match up somewhere on my mac to fix this? It clearly isn't in the ppd driver file, but I feel like I'm so close, and working through a GUI doesn't seem like it's going to cut it. I'm sorry this post is so long, but I wanted to be complete.
Thanks in advance. Hell, thanks just for reading
-Plastech