CHAPTER 8 Setting Up Printing on Macs

Unless you’ve managed to hypnotize or blackmail your network’s users into keeping all their documents as bits and bytes, you’ll have to put up with them printing out their documents on bits of paper as well. That means diving into the eternal stream of woe that consists of providing printers, feeding them paper, keeping them serviceable, managing print queues, and dealing with printer jams—and being prepared to do so before you’ve had your first cup of coffee.

If you’re reading this chapter, you clearly know all this, but you’ve still decided to share your Windows network’s printers with your Macs. This chapter shows you how to proceed in this generous and benevolent endeavor, starting with the basics—the ...

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