Bonjour for Wireless Mac & PC Printing
As we slowly set up the office area in the new place, I wanted to hook my printer up to print wirelessly since we have two computers. Now my printer is nice, but it’s not a network printer and I didn’t spend the extra $30 or so to get a wireless router with a USB printing port, yet I knew that my Mac had options to share a printer over the network. So I turned on the printer sharing and went over to the PC (running Windows 2000) and it couldn’t find my printer. Then I remembered that Apple had released Bonjour for Windows a few weeks back. A quick install and it found the printer no problem. Now the PC can print over the wireless network to the printer connected to my Mac.
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What if the printe is set up on the Windows machine? I have a Intel iMac running on a wireless connection (through the same router as the Windows machine). The printer is set up on the Windows machine. What do I need to do to get the Mac to see the printer? Is it just a matter of installing Bonjour for Windows on the PC? Please help me if you can. Nick
- nick March 6th, 2006 at 7:04 pm
Safari 417.8 - Mac OS X
Nick, I think installing Bonjour on the PC should do it. But I no longer have a PC to try to see if it works.
- Thomas March 22nd, 2006 at 8:15 am
Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.2 - Mac OS X
I was really struggling to get my windows XP laprtop to print wirelessley to my Epson Photo Stylus R200 connected to my G5 iMAC via USB. The post here was the solution - I downloaded Bonjour from the Apple website, installed & ran it. I was astonished at how quickly Bojjour found the printer! All I then had to do is select the printer and hay presto, wireless printing from the laptop!!
Thank you so much for the tip - it’s simple, fast and it works!!
Regds, Anil.
- Anil June 19th, 2007 at 3:19 pm
Safari 419.3 - Mac OS X
Glad to help.
- Thomas June 20th, 2007 at 5:38 am
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.3 - Mac OS X
Ok, so I installed Bonjour on my machine, and set up the sharing in the Mac and I STILL can’t see the printer on the windows machine.
The PC runs Vista Home Premium w/ all the updates that have come out. The Mac (iBook) runs OS 10.3.9 and has all its shots (so to speak).
The two machines are connected via wireless network to cable internet.
So that’s broadband –> 802.11x router –> PC
\–> MAC
I’m pulling my hair out trying to get this to work and I’m just about at my wits end…to the point that I’ll deal with having two separate printers in my home office just to not deal with it. How can I get the printer to talk to both PC’s?
I’d love it if someone could answer this in straightforward terms…I’m a windows guy, so I don’t really know Mac at all…Thanks in advance!
~Marc
- Marc August 13th, 2007 at 11:18 pm
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.6 - Windows Vista
Marc, in my experiences 10.4.x worked great, but 10.3.x always gave me issues. Maybe it’s time to update the Mac’s OS?
- Thomas August 14th, 2007 at 6:49 am
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.5 - Mac OS X
Would it work the other way? As in if I have a printer connected to a windows PC (XP) and set it up with bonjour then will my mac see it? If so how would I find it on my mac?
- Vikram August 17th, 2008 at 3:19 pm
Mozilla Firefox 3.0.1 - Mac OS X