The Mac Experience in Business & Home: Help, Tips, Discussion & Radio Show Notes

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Tonight we have Jason Snell from MacWorld on the air with us, and the lines are packed with Mac listeners! Thanks.

Carol called, and it sounds like, given she can print to her HP, that she should try installing the HP printer drivers onto her laptop. She’s getting gobbledy-gook when she tries to print. It’s good she’s getting *something*, as it means she can “reach” the printer across the network. That it’s indecipherable may be because the printer driver is incorrect. A driver is a piece of software (program, or code) that tells your computer how to communicate with another device, in this case, the device is a printer. If you don’t have the right driver, your computer may not be able to communicate properly with the device in question (again in this case an HP printer).

While Carol doesn’t need this software, and many XP users won’t, here’s the link to download software for Windows from Apple that will enable Windows users to share access from both Windows and her new Mac Book Pro. Other Windows users may need to download this software to their Windows machines, and install it, which will enable their Windows PC to “see” their printers which they have hooked-up to their Aiport Extreme wireless hubs via USB. Note that you can change the name of the printer by using the Aiport Admin Utility, which may be found in your Utilities folder (directory), in your Applications folder.

http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/bonjourforwindows103.html

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