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I have a Canon PIXMA iP5000 printer that is connected via USB to a Windows 7 PC. I'm trying to access it via my Mac running OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.
I've tried the steps in the following article: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3049.
I've managed to add the printer and install the required drivers from the list, but on printing from my Mac, nothing happens on the printer!
Any help appreciated, thanks.
According to this thread on macrumors, Lion - Printing to shared Windows 7 Printer, Apple has decided to remove in OS X Lion anything that allows you to print via a windows shared printer.
I had the same problem and this is what I did to fix it:
Go to http://localhost:631/
If you get the "Web Interface is Disabled" message, run cupsctl WebInterface=yes in Terminal.
Choose the Administration tab.
Click Add Printer.
If you are required to login, use a local Administrator account.
Select the printer (in my case it was automatically found).
Best Answer
Since the mac is sending the job over the network to the PC - it should be easy to tell if the mac has handed off the job to Windows by opening the console app on the mac (/Applications/Utilities).
If the PC accepts the job from the mac, then something should print even if you are using a generic printer driver.
Look at the error_log, access_log and page_log in /private/var/log/cups as you print.
The job should get:
You should be able to know if there is a problem on 1-3 using the console app on the mac. If there are errors, you can post them if they are not obvious to you how to react to them. I would guess you would have seen the jobs backing up on the dock or gotten an error dialog on the mac end if the problem were with your setup on the Mac.