Comments on: Printer issues after Tiger update

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 01:16:17 +0000

I actually am no longer using the HP 5L. I never could get it to work continuously. I ended up getting a Brother HL-2070N and hooked it directly to my network router via ethernet.
I'm sorry that I am unable to help you with this. I believe the HP5L and the Mac are just not meant to be.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 13:27:24 +0000

Hello, I just upgraded to Tiger and I found your article. I am having the same problem of trying to setup my printer to the HP Laserjet 5L. I tried following your suggestion with no luck. I set up an IP printer with the IP address of my SMC router with HP5L as the queue name…but nothing prints. However, when I look at the setup, it has the queue name as “_192_168_2_1″ So it changed it or something…do you have any other suggestions? Thanks…jahsboy

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 09:02:25 +0000

Thanks a lot. This new configuration works perfectly.
Gianandrea

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 23:50:13 +0000

I do not have AppleTalk even turned on anymore. I could not get it to work with my HP5L printer. What I ended up doing was setting it up as an IP printer. The IP address is that of the DP-300U. In the settings of the DP-300U on its web setup page, I set the name of the queue for the HP5L to just that… HP5L. In the printer setup on the Mac, I used that queue name and used HP LaserJet 5 Series Gimp 2 as the printer driver. It works for me. Let me know if I can be of any further help.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 07:07:31 +0000

dear Kerry,
I've the same configuration of your mini-lan: mac mini with Tiger, DP-300U, and Laserjet 5L. I'm able to print via AppleTalk method even if there are some problems of garbage printing. It seems that HP printer assumes that binary data received over AppleTalk connection are encoded in Postscript Binary format. I have no idea how to solve this problem, but I found this interesting link: http://www.macwindows.com/
If I find good news I'll post you immediatly. Good luck
Gianandrea from Italy