Your printer is also not on Apple's list of known compatible printers:

I was able to determine that they do support the C5150n printer for Snow Leopard, but that probably wont help you. According to this document from OKI the c5100 is not supported for Mac OSX at all (not just Snow Leopard).Īccording to the PDF document I downloaded (dated October 21, 2009) and the current information on Oki's driver site, some of their color printers work with OS X if you install Rosetta to be able to install the drivers, some of their printers work with Snow Leopard if you install a 'Snow Leopard Compatibility Fix' they mention.

Thanks for providing the make and model of the printer. So, in effect, the windows server has nothing to do with the printer unless you are assigning an IP number controlled by a DHCP router in the server. Even if the printer is not supported by the vendor, you may still be able to get it to work with Apple's CUPS drivers. I don't know if the printer you have is specifically supported for Snow Leopard by the vendor because I still don't know what kind/brand/model it is. IPP printing works a lot of the time but it depends on the printer. Your Mac should be talking directly to the printer, not a windows server/share. I would remove the share, delete any printers you've tried to install to the Mac, reset the Mac's printer system (right click in the empty Printers list box), and start again to add a printer to your Mac by using drivers that are designed to work with Snow Leopard. Shared printers are a waste of time and server resources and complicate a normally simple printer installation. Sharing the printer from a Windows server kind of defeats the purpose of having a true network printer. This means the printer has a built-in print server and you do not have to 'share' the printer at all.Īll computers on the network will access the printer independently in their own way with drivers for their platform. I'm assuming you mean a true static IP number instead of a manually assigned dynamic IP number that's provided by the Windows server. I just wasn't sure what you were saying and wanted to be sure.įrom what I understand, you have some brand/model of printer and it's got a static IP number.

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