The freeware called gimp-print supports OSX and the fantastic part of this is that it supports printers that vendors seem uninterested in supporting for OSX.

I also have an HP 812C USB printer that is connected to a Win2000 Tower PC.

I had no problems printing to the HP 812C via Windows 2000 printer sharing using SMB.

The problem was that I had to boot the PC every time I wanted to print from the iBook.

So I started looking for a print server solution that would be relatively cheap and work with both the PC and iBook.

They have a unit that has two USB ports and one Parallel port and costs around 70US (they have a single USB model in the works).

You can also telnet into the unit to effect configuration changes.

You enter the IP address, and for the queue name you enter a value that depends on which of the three plugs you plugged the printer into (lp1 for the parallel port, lp2 and lp3 for USB ports).

According to Hawking Technologies, the PS12U should be compatible with just about any USB printer.

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I had to download the opensource Linux driver.

Ugh. I just want to print with an HP driver.

THen you can pick your printer from the 300 or so that are supported.

I have a Hawking Tech print server here and its sitting here doing nothing at all.

You can try out a demo version that prints their logo on every job you print, which is a good way to verify that the driver works before purchase.

The purchase price is not bad and the web-based maintenance utility is nice.

After some fumbling with CUPS upgrades I did get it printing well enough under OS X, but I found that there was no way, from any supported platform, to get the ink monitor to communicate with the printer over the PS12U.

Since the ink monitor does work from a pc thats sharing the printer from another pc thats directly connected via usb, obviously the monitor does work over some arrangement of network printing protocols, just not the ones that the PC12U speaks.

I am curious what CUPS version you selected for your C80 The tech support at Hawking said it must be postscript (which i know it is not) but some of you seem have had success.

Basically, you insert an IP address for the printer into the Macs arp table, and then use the web interface.

I noticed on Hawkings web site they say to type get CONFIG.TXT, which I also tried even though it appeared to be a typo.

However, if it can be confirmed that the PS12U will enable USB non-postscript printers to work with OSX, Ill go down to Frys and buy it tonight.

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Apples included drivers for USB printers do not provide support for IP printing.

However, as has been described here and in other hints, CUPS with GIMP-Print works great and gives you the ability to print to non-Postscript printers via IP.

I now have the missing clue that makes the PS12U a wonderful solution for networking printers: gimp-print I learned the following: 1.

Since OSX is a Unix computer, the Unix print function called LPR opens up a parallel body of solutions for printing.

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