Printing & Copying

Some Windows printers are hard to configure. Here's how you do it:

1. Open "System Preferences"

2. Click "Print and Fax"

3. Click "+" to add a new printer.

4. Click "Advanced" from the tab options. If you don't see it, than right-click or CTRL-click in the toolbar area (gray on top) and select "Customize Toolbar". Drag the Advanced icon to the toolbar, click "Done" and click "Advanced".

5. Be patient. It takes up to a minute for this screen to fill the options. Once done, select type "Windows", device "Another device" and enter URL as:

smb://username:password@workgroup/machine/printer

My example connection is for user named "serbian" with password "cafe012". Domain name is "Workgroup", computer name "silver" and printer was shared by Windows as "Optra". Fill the rest of the data as you please.