The love affair is over

[nmg]

Let me get this straight. I can't print from MacOS 10.4 to a commonplace HP non-postscript printer (in this case a LaserJet 1022) that's connected to and shared from a Windows XP box without downloading, compiling and installing a bunch of open source software from a third party.

I was under the impression that Apple computers were renowned for their ease of use.

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[bohemiancoast.livejournal.com]

Every really rubbish Mac experience I've ever had has been in some way related to Windows networking. If I could just make it a Mac only network, all would be much better.

Printers have been sufficiently bad that we keep two printers around. That's not entirely unfortunate -- we have a printer-more-suited-to-photos on one machine and a printer-more-suited-to-text on the other. But still, if printing across the network was straightforward we might only have one printer now.

[nmg.livejournal.com]

There are a number of issues at play here. The 1022 is a cheap non-postscript printer; for those printers, OS X uses gimp-print to provide CUPS drivers for non-ps printers, but gimp-print doesn't support the 1022. Gah.