Network Tutorial for Cannon MP160

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So awhile back i picked up a laptop that came with the Cannon MP160 printer/scanner/copier.

Pretty sweet for free, anyways while trying to figure out how to get the printer to install on OS X was easy enough (pop in the cd and run the installer), getting it to work across the network was a bit of a problem. The windows XP laptop could see the printer however it would not print when installed.

 

The solution:

you have to install the printer CD on both windows and OS X, but after it's installed on the OS X you have to go back and add ANOTHER printer, with a different name like "XP 160" or something. When you add it though, change the driver on OS X from IJ CANNON to Apple Color LaserWrite, it should be the first one under apple.

 

Then add a network printer in XP and point it to the "XP 160" and use the supplied drivers from the cd.

(Note: upon finishing install of the CD in XP, it will ask you to connect to the printer via usb, you can Ctrl+Alt+Del and end the program as you wont be connecting it)

 

Lastly go back to OS X and set the default printer to "MP 160", otherwise OS X cant send the documents to the LaserWrite drivers.

 

Hopefully this should help i spent the better part of a day figuring it out.