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I have years of Mac experience but never anything wireless, so extreme
newbie here in that department.
Trouble is, someone with even less experience, a friend's mother, wants
me to connect her iMac to a lexmark printer wirelessly.
Her iMac is the current 20" one, with Leopard. The printer Lexmark
4550, and has "wifi" written on it. The computer is connected
wirelessly to DSL---done by her son, now conveniently out of the
country ---so there a router, but so far her printers have been
wired. She wants to connect this one wirelessly (convenient placement).
I tried the standard installation with disc, but at some point I get
the message that the printer has not been added to Printer Setup
Utility. I looked in Applications/utilities, but couldn't find "printer
setup utility". Have they removed it in Leopard? (I am still with
panther in my computer.)
At some point, when she was clicking around, she said a box asked her
for the printer's IP address and neither one of us knew how to get
that.
At the back of the printer there is a label that says Mac and a string
of numbers but it doesn't look like an IP address to me.
So, if you are experienced with this sort of thing, please tell me what
do we have to do to connect this printer wirelessly to iMac/leopard?
newbie here in that department.
Trouble is, someone with even less experience, a friend's mother, wants
me to connect her iMac to a lexmark printer wirelessly.
Her iMac is the current 20" one, with Leopard. The printer Lexmark
4550, and has "wifi" written on it. The computer is connected
wirelessly to DSL---done by her son, now conveniently out of the
country ---so there a router, but so far her printers have been
wired. She wants to connect this one wirelessly (convenient placement).
I tried the standard installation with disc, but at some point I get
the message that the printer has not been added to Printer Setup
Utility. I looked in Applications/utilities, but couldn't find "printer
setup utility". Have they removed it in Leopard? (I am still with
panther in my computer.)
At some point, when she was clicking around, she said a box asked her
for the printer's IP address and neither one of us knew how to get
that.
At the back of the printer there is a label that says Mac and a string
of numbers but it doesn't look like an IP address to me.
So, if you are experienced with this sort of thing, please tell me what
do we have to do to connect this printer wirelessly to iMac/leopard?