Windows 10: Printing from a Mac to a printer on a Windows 10 PC

Hey,


We've got a Zebra GK420t thermal printer at work - they don't produce a Mac driver, and the workaround is terrible print resolution is dire, and is a known issue, so I've set up a Windows 10 PC to run as a print server.


Unfortunately, the printer still seems to be using the Mac driver to render the printouts, and as a result, it will happily print the file through the network via the Windows PC, but it looks awful. Any file directly printed to the Zebra printer from Windows 10 is pin sharp. I've tried disabling client-side rendering via the check box in the printer's settings, but on or off, it has no impact on the finished printout it still looks rubbish.


As far as I can figure, I need to somehow force the setup to use the Windows 10 driver to render the file in all instances i.e. file goes to windows 10, gets rendered on PC, then sent to printer, rather than gets rendered on Mac, gets sent to Windows 10, then sent to printer.


Any help appreciated!

:)

 

can't print from win 10 to printer attached to mac


many tks for replies guys
spapakons -- i checked out all your sugg. windows sharing was enabled. the selected printer is shared with smb. workgroup is the same as the win workgroup (WORKGROUP). if i can only print from 1 machine, i'd rather it be the win 10 pc, so i have moved the printer from the mac to the win 10 pc. same issue as before - the mac and the xp pc will not print. the print jobs are going to the que but the printer does not come to life. as mentioned in an earlier post, i am able to share files between all three but can't print (except from the machine the printer is attached to) i'm all out of ideas, options, and things to try and don't really know where to go from here.
again guys, tks for the suggestions.

 

Cant get Mac Book to share Windows 10 printer


Hello -

Been tearin' my hair out a little on this one, have scoured the net and posted on a couple Mac forums to no avail.

PC is a brand new tower running Windows 10 & I love it but I cant seem to get my Mac laptop to connect to the Kodak c310 AIO printer when I hook it up to the new tower. It connects to my old Mac Pro tower easily over the same LAN.

The LAN is an ether-net using a Linksys 4 port router. The Mac identifies the tower as being on the network and seems to try to print to the Kodak but then just hangs at sending the data. As I said above, it prints fine over the same network to my old Mac tower.

I have followed all the steps here: http://macs.about.com/od/printershar...-Mac.htm#step1

Enabled LPD protocol & printer sharing in Windows 10.

Any advice or suggestions most appreciated thanks for reading!

 

Mac OSX USB printer problem

OK i just bought the Canon IP4500 usb printer and installed it on the mac following hte instructions to the letter.

No printer is found and i cannot add it in the Printer list, cause theres no option for USB printer installation, only Appletalk, Bluetooth, and Windows Printing.

I have downloaded the latest drivers etc... but no luck *Bang Head :banghead:

As it is i dont like macs but now with a simple thing as this i dislike them even more.

Last resort is trying installing the printer on a Vista pc and see if it works, if it does then the mac is up to shit, if it does not install then the printer is up to shit.

Anyone had a similar problem maybe and how did you overcome it?