Network Printing

Go to Each computers Control Panel --> Users and Password and add the login/password of the WinXP computer to the other computers.

All the computers should have the MS NetBEUI protocol added in order to see all the computers' shares when browsing in Network Neighborhood/My Network Places if you are using a peer-to-peer network (ie. no "server" software; WinNT server or Win2000 Server, etc).

You may need to install the XP drivers for this model printer on the WinXP computer (install locally), then go back into the printers folder and re-direct the port from LPT1 to a \\servername\printername.

Hi, try looking for the print preprocessor in your printer properties, should be found under advanced setting. Make sure the print preprocessor is set to RAW or RAW(ff auto).

Dave.

Ok. When you are printing from a XP box to a shared printer that is connected to a Win9x/NT/2K box, you can have problems. I had this same problem a couple of months back. All my NT and 2K clients could print to a shared printer that was connected to a NT workstation; when the XP printer tried to print, the print job would spool to the printer but the printer would NOT print.
This is a driver issue.
What happens is when you installed the drivers on the XP box for it to print to this shared printer, you got either the Win9x drivers or the WinNT drivers. You did not get an error when installing these drivers, but you should have!
What you need to do is PUSH the XP drivers FROM the XP box onto the Win9x machine.
Technet article Q263090 tells you what to do. The article was written for Win2K pushing printer drivers onto WinNT print servers, but the premise also works for XP pushing drivers.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;q263090
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hope this helps