I knew there would be a catch

[ksmith]

I have my printers defined as shared printers. They are both plugged in to the USB hub, which is plugged into the Airport base station. I can't print anything. What did I not do?

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[pnh.livejournal.com]

According to a friend who knows something about the Airport Extreme Base Station project, there are continuing problems with the printer sharing. I can't make it work with mine, either. But it's killer good at its central function of being a wireless router.

Supposedly they're trying to iron out the kinks in firmware upgrades. Meanwhile, I plan to simply re-attach my printer to one of the desktop computers and share it over the network from there.

[mallory-blog.livejournal.com]

when you go to print is it asking you which one you want to use?

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

yes--I have to make a choice.

Some folks in my SFFNet newsgroups are saying that I need to have the printers physically connected to one of the computers so that it can act as a print server. I can try that later--if nothing else, I can connect the printers to the desktop and simply do all my printing from the desktop.

I'm just happy I have the wireless working...

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

I'm glad it's not just me. I tend to skim instructions and then try to hunt/peck through the set up assistants. so it's easy for me to miss steps.

I did download a firmware upgrade today, but it apparently did not help with this issue.

[mallory-blog.livejournal.com]

I have been able to direct it between printers and I'm pretty sure I have to select the printer before but truthfully it has been so long I'm damn rusty.

I would try opening the doc and pre-selecting where you want it to go. Then close that and try opening the Print and see if it is sorting to the right place.