Anybody else have 'hoards of shared printers' in the list?
Jim Witte
jswitte at bloomington.in.us
Wed Apr 2 15:41:04 PDT 2008
I'm using (Intel) OSX 10.4.10, sharing a printer (Brother
DCP-7020) from a (PPC) 10.4.11 machine. I will often see at least
two, sometimes 7 or 8 printers listed in the "Shared Printers"
submenu - all the same, but only one of them seems to activate the
Print button. What are all the other "ghosts" doing there? On the
host machine, all the printers showed up as well in Printer Setup.
This problem persisted even after I removed all the 'ghosts' (and
the one working queue as well) from the host machine, and then re-
added the printer - I gave it a name different from the default
driver name. Now on the "slave" mac I have two printers listed under
that name, and before I when I had the whole slew of printers, they
all had the default driver name.
Anybody else have this problem? Is this a known bug (and is it
fixed in Leopard)?
Jim
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