Comments on: Bonjour on Windows and printer drivers…

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 07:04:29 +0000

After trying several other solutions, this is the one that worked. Need to make sure you have the correct version of bonjour and it installs correctly. after that, this is pretty flawless. THANK YOU!!

By: Nigel Chapman

Nigel Chapman — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 10:40:32 +0000

I have 3 printers regularly used 2x canon and Epson. Could not get Bonjour to work. Kept trying to ‘Repair”. Eventually completely uninstalled Bonjouir and then reinstalled. Works a treat. As drivers were already on my computer, nothing else to do and wizard worked…. Thanks for all this advise.

By: Joe Soricelli

Joe Soricelli — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 17:56:27 +0000

Update to my earlier post. HDD in my XP machine died so new HDD and Win7 install was in order. Loaded the Bonjour client, added the IP_10.0.1.1 port and all works just fine.

By: gideon

gideon — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:13:30 +0000

I have tried everything mentioned above. I have an HP photosmart 6180 and the printer works fine connected via usb, but I can’t get it to print through the airport extreme.

Bonjour recognizes the printer and selects drivers but when I push the finish intall on the bonjour wizard it locks up and doesn’t respond. I even tried installing via the TCP/IP address and it installs the printer but still won’t print.

Can somebody give me a hand?

By: Daren

Daren — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:27:22 +0000

Thanks for the port 10.0.1.1 info, now I can connect one printer. I have a second printer I would like to add to my airport extreme, what port would I use for the second one?

By: Copier Toner

Copier Toner — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 13:26:59 +0000

Thanks for sharing your thoughts and excellent and It also works with the new Airport Extreme. It is important to remember to uninstall the printer from any previous attempts, before following your instructions, otherwise Bonjour seems to default to the original..

By: Karen

Karen — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 16:13:11 +0000

IT WORKED!!! I’ve tried a thousand times to install my HP 5280, and Bonjour would only SEE, but not print to the printer on Airport. By adding a port (10.0.1.1), I could finally make the printer work. Thank you!

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 11:44:34 +0000

I have Windows Vista Home Premium and an HP Deskjet D1420. I have tried everything under the sun and nothing works. The problem specifically is that I only get through part of a test page and the print spooler chokes. Over USB the test page works fine. I have a feeling its a driver problem, but I can’t get any other drivers to work over Bonjour. I CAN communicate with the printer and my MBP works just fine. I need HELP because I am about ready to throw the Vista machine and the printer out the window!

By: buttrfli

buttrfli — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 02:52:04 +0000

Thank you so much wensley! I have been moving my printer’s USB cord for months now. I decided to give this a go again tonight and was getting very frustrated. When it printed I nearly jumped up and down for joy.

The only difference for me was I had to actually add the port because for some reason it wouldn’t let me change the printer name. So I added a TCP/IP port with the printer name 10.0.1.1 and port name IP_10.0.1.1. Then I just selected that port instead of the time-capsule.local port that it created.

BTW I am on Windows XP SP3 and HP LJ3050. Thanks again!

By: wensley

wensley — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 22:01:58 +0000

I am glad it worked out for you Joe Soricelli. I recently had to reinstall Windows because of a nasty virus. I am glad I wrote in this forum, because I had forgotten how to configure the port. I googled my own name with some additional keywords and found this page again. Btw, in the old post I wrote the port name as 10.0.0.1, it should be 10.0.1.1 as Joe wrote.