How I got the p1006 to print wirelessly with an airport express

[hey8x]

Hi all,

I just spent the last 3 hours trying to get my p1006 to print wirelessly with my airport express.  There is a lack of good information online regarding this, and the conventional wisdom is that the p1006 does not support network printing.  I knew this was false because I easily got my mac to print through the airport express.  Getting my XP laptop to do so was a lot harder.

Generally, the way you set up a XP computer to print via the airport express is to add a tcp/ip port and put in the IP address.  This was not working with the p1006.  What I did was the following:

1.  Download "Bonjour" for windows from apple and install it.

http://support.apple.com/downloads/Bonjour_for_Windows

2.  Connect the p1006 to your airport and turn the printer on

3.  Run the bonjour printer wizard  It *should* detect the p1006.

4.  Install the printer using the wizard.  (If the p1006 drivers are not on the driver list, I would suggest connecting the p1006 to your computer directly via USB and installing a traditional copy that way to ensure the drivers are correctly installed on your computer.  Then erase this printer - or rename it as "p1006 USB" or something and go back to step 2 - the p1006 drivers should be on the driver list at this point)

5.  "Normal" (meaning non-p1006) printers should work at this point, so you might want to try to print a test page just for the hell of it.  Unfortunately, at least with my p1006, windows generates a printing error message immediately.  I solved this by going to "printers" in the control panel, then right-clicking on the printer and selecting "properties"

6.  Click on the "ports" tab and be sure to DISABLE "bi-directional support"  (this is a checkbox)

 At this point, the p1006 printed wirelessly for me.  I hope this post will prove useful to some people having similar issues.

Alex

[yoz]

Hi,

I saw your post and could use your help.  I have a p1006 connected to a newly purchased airport extreme and cannot get it to print.  The p1006 does not seem to be on the lists I have seen that will work with the Airport.  How did you get it to work? 

Thanks,

Greg