2 printers on the network, Can only connect to 1

one1 said:

I have an HP all in one printer for documents and an Epson photo printer for pics. I can print to the HP with no problems whatsoever, but when I try to print to the Epson, I get the error below.

Computer I am trying to print from: Macbook on Leo, running off wireless through router.

Computer I am trying to print to where printer is connected: Compaq desktop on XP Pro on lan connection and hosting the router.

I have printer sharing enabled on the new printer, the settings appear to be identical, but I guess not.

Any ideas?

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You don't explain exactly how you have each printer connected. However, your problem appears to be a very common one that often brings users to this forum.

However, I am betting that you are trying to use vendor-supplied drivers to print to networked printers. Vendor-supplied drivers are usually for a USB connection. You cannot use a USB driver to control a Windows-shared printer. You have to download and install the CUPS driver for your model Epson. There are ample links to the Linux Foundation OpenPrinting website elsewhere on this forum. Do a search--either here or on Google.

You can't use most linux stuff on OS X. Get Mac OS X-specific drivers here:
http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/macosx

one1 said:

Thank you, but I have no idea which one to use

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What kind of epson is it? Can you ping the printer or is it shared on another machine?

For the Epson you need the latest Gutenprint driver from the link I gave you above.

When I go to that page, I see this:
foo2zjs
The foo2zjs is a package to support certain HP LaserJets, Minolta, Samsung, and Xerox printers. It contains several 'foo2*' drivers.
23 printers
Gutenprint
The Gutenprint (formerly called Gimp-Print) package is a suite of high-quality open-source drivers supporting Epson, Canon, lexmark, and HP inkjet printers.
800+ printers
hl1250
The hl1250 package supports 8 Brother printers that do not include the Brother PostScript emulator.
8 printers
hpijs
The hpijs package uses the open-source hpijs driver to support over 600 varieties of (mostly HP) DeskJet, OfficeJet, PSC, LaserJet printer.
635 printers
imagewriter
The imagewriter package provides support for all three Apple ImageWriter dot-matrix printers. Printing is supported via AppleTalk and serial port.
3 printers
lpstyl
The lpstyl package supports 7 Apple Stylewriter printers. The printers must be connected to a serial port.
7 printers
m2300w
The m2300w package supports 2 Konica Minolta magicolor "w" printers.
2 printers
min12xxw
The min12xxw package supports 5 Minolta PagePro "w" printers.
5 printers
pnm2ppa
The pnm2ppa package supports printers that use the proprietary PPA (Printing Performance Architecture) protocol developed by Hewlett Packard.
6 printers
pslevel1
The pslevel1 package attempts to support printing to PostScript level 1 printers.
5 printers
pxlmono
The pxlmono package supports 461 printers from manufacturers, including Brother, Epson, Gestetner, HP, Infotec, Kyocera, Lanier, NRG, Ricoh, Samsung, and Savin. .
461 printers
rastertokmXXXXdl
The rastertokmXXXXdl drivers support the KONICA MINOLTA magicolor 2300 DL, magicolor 2430 DL, magicolor 2530 DL, magicolor 5430 DL, and magicolor 5440 DL printers.
samsung-gdi
The samsung-gdi package supports printers that use the Samsung-GDI language.
12 printers
Foomatic-RIP
The Foomatic-RIP package installs the standalone runtime machinery for printing with any Foomatic driver. It can be used to more easily install a Foomatic driver for which no Mac OS X package exists.
Loads of printers

-- the link called Gutenprint is what I was referring to.