Sharing your printer with Windows users

April 8, 2010 · Posted in Mac OS X, Win7, Windows 

My HR Department have one desktop PC, one MacBook and iMac connected on HR network. There is a printer connected via USB to the iMac machine. They want me to help them setting it up to be shared with Mac machines and Windows Machine. So i have to figure out how to do the printer sharing. But sharing the printer from the iMac to Windows machines was significantly more difficult.
To make your Windows Machine communicate with your Apple Machines, you need to have Bonjour protocol. You have to install Bonjour for Windows to you Windows Machines , you can share your printer with them in the same way you’d share it with Mac OS X users.

Below are some simple steps to share printer with Windows users:-

On the Mac (the one that the USB printer that you want to share is connected to):

  1. Go to System Preferences and open Print & Fax.
  2. Check to see if your printer is installed (ie.HP1020).
  3. Go to the Sharing preferences panel to ensure Printer Sharing and Windows Sharing are both turned on.

On the Windows PC:

  1. Click HERE to download Bonjour for Windows.
  2. Install Bonjour.
  3. Follow the steps for setting up Bonjour.

Once you have found your shared printer on the network and it asks you to specify the driver, go with the Generic Postscript.

Click on Finish to add the printer.

I tried to print from my Windows machine, it work for me. Hope this post will help you :-)

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