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From: louisxiv on 5 Jan 2010 15:50
I've managed against the odds (I'm a self-confessed Luddite) to set up
something resembling a network in my home office and am running an imac
(with router attached by yellow ethernet cable and a macbook Pro which
connects by Airport. My printer is connected to the imac by a usb cable
and has no ethernet port/socket so i can't attach it to my router.

I've managed to set up file sharing and have tried in System
Preferences > Sharing to set up printer sharing and Printer Sharing is
on and the 'Share this Printer on the network' box is ticked for my
printer yet I get a message saying Printer is offline when i try to
print from the Macbook.

Am I missing something really obvious here?

TIA for any advice.

Louis

From: louisxiv on 5 Jan 2010 15:52
On 2010-01-05 20:50:51 +0000, louisxiv said:

> I've managed against the odds (I'm a self-confessed Luddite) to set up
> something resembling a network in my home office and am running an imac
> (with router attached by yellow ethernet cable and a macbook Pro which
> connects by Airport. My printer is connected to the imac by a usb cable
> and has no ethernet port/socket so i can't attach it to my router.
>
> I've managed to set up file sharing and have tried in System
> Preferences > Sharing to set up printer sharing and Printer Sharing is
> on and the 'Share this Printer on the network' box is ticked for my
> printer yet I get a message saying Printer is offline when i try to
> print from the Macbook.
>
> Am I missing something really obvious here?
>
> TIA for any advice.
>
> Louis

Just reposted this in comp.sys.mac.system!

From: Fred McKenzie on 7 Jan 2010 21:55
In article <2010010520505150073-(a)news.plus.net>, louisxiv wrote:

> Printer Sharing is
> on and the 'Share this Printer on the network' box is ticked for my
> printer yet I get a message saying Printer is offline when i try to
> print from the Macbook.
>
> Am I missing something really obvious here?

Louis-

Is the computer set to never go to sleep? If it did go to sleep, the
printer would be off line.

Fred
From: David Empson on 7 Jan 2010 23:20
Fred McKenzie <fmmck(a)aol.com> wrote:

> In article <2010010520505150073-(a)news.plus.net>, louisxiv wrote:
>
> > Printer Sharing is
> > on and the 'Share this Printer on the network' box is ticked for my
> > printer yet I get a message saying Printer is offline when i try to
> > print from the Macbook.
> >
> > Am I missing something really obvious here?
>
> Louis-
>
> Is the computer set to never go to sleep? If it did go to sleep, the
> printer would be off line.

Louis posted the same question on comp.sys.mac.system and in that thread
he said the problem had been resolved (but didn't explain what it was).

--
David Empson
dempson(a)actrix.gen.nz
From: louisxiv on 8 Jan 2010 07:31
On 2010-01-08 04:20:11 +0000, dempson(a)actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) said:

> Fred McKenzie <fmmck(a)aol.com> wrote:
>
>> In article <2010010520505150073-(a)news.plus.net>, louisxiv wrote:
>>
>>> Printer Sharing is
>>> on and the 'Share this Printer on the network' box is ticked for my
>>> printer yet I get a message saying Printer is offline when i try to
>>> print from the Macbook.
>>>
>>> Am I missing something really obvious here?
>>
>> Louis-
>>
>> Is the computer set to never go to sleep? If it did go to sleep, the
>> printer would be off line.
>
> Louis posted the same question on comp.sys.mac.system and in that thread
> he said the problem had been resolved (but didn't explain what it was).

Apologies. I think the problem was probably me. To be honest I'm not
sure what I did to make it work. It justt started to. I am a Luddite, I
know.

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