How to manually add a Windows printer for OS X
Posted: March 19, 2009 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: osx Leave a comment »The printer preferences dialog on a Mac allows you to browse for Windows printer shares and add them by clicking. If the share is not browseable, or the printer is on another IP subnet, then the printer wont show up. On a PC, you can simply enter the server and share name.
On a Mac there’s nowhere to do this. While waiting for Apple tech support to figure it out (they tried to give up on me a couple of times) I stumbled on the salient KB article. Turns out the Advanced tool button you need to do this is turned off by default.
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