Mac OS X: Using printer sharing between different versions of Mac OS X

Summary

Any printers that you share using Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard or later will be visible to other Macs on your local network that are running Mac OS X v10.2 or later.

Products Affected

Mac OS Printing/Fax (any version), Mac OS X 10.4, Mac OS X 10.5, Mac OS X 10.6

Using printers being shared by other Macs

When you add a printer in Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard or later, you will see printers on your local network that are being shared by other Macs running Mac OS X v10.4 or later. These printers will display "Bonjour Shared" in the Kind column of the dialog sheet.

Note: Use the same printer driver version on the computer sharing the printer and the computer printing to the shared printer, to avoid a certain issue.

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