[JBS003]

Having very happily made "Tthe Switch" a few months ago, I have a Canon multifunction laser printer (MF5730) at home which unfortunately does not have OSX support. The printer does not have inbuilt networking capabilities. It is less than a year old and I quite like it and would rather keep using it if I could (otherwise I will have to flog it on ebay or wherever, take a towelling on resale, and buy a MFP that is OSX compatible).

My question is this:

Can I hook up the Canon printer to my older laptop that runs XP, wirelessly network both my intel iMac and intel MBP to the XP laptop, and then print, scan, fax etc from the printer (or at the very least print and scan)?

I have done a bit of a search over the net on this, but have found it all a bit confusing. The terms SAMBA and Bonjour have popped up, but being a total newb, these are totally flying over my head.

Any help is much appreciated.

Cheers
J

[AusMac]

well it seems that you should sell it. But we'll keep trying. http://www.ehmac.ca/anything-mac/411...l-one-mac.html

[coljac]

Hey there,

You can definitely share the printer out via the windows box. (Samba is the networking technology that Windows uses to share printers and files.)

However, in order to print to a network printer you still need drivers for it. Therefore, I'm not sure what sharing it out might accomplish. Perhaps there's a generic driver that might work, I don't know. The only guaranteed way to us it at the moment would be to print to PDF on the mac and then print the PDF on the windows box, which is obviously a nightmare.