Connect printer airport extreme windows 7

Or, you could do what ended up working for me. Leave Port name at whatever it fills in, uncheck Query the printer and automatically select the driver to use , and click Next. It should find the device. If not, you probably entered the wrong IP address. Check it and try again. Click Next. Fill in a Printer name , or leave the name it fills in for you alone. Decide whether to share the printer or not.

Since other devices on your network can print directly to the Airport Extreme, why bother to share it? I selected Do not share this printer and clicked Next.

Decide whether to Set as the default printer , and try to Print a test page , then click Finish. Share this: Twitter Facebook. Like this: Like Loading Comments 8. Worked for me first time in 1 year thanks a lot Comment by Sk — November 3, pm. Who knew?? Posted on Jan 23, AM. Page content loaded. When connected by Ethernet or by wireless a printer needs to be network ready and provides its services via a built-in print server in the printer itself.

However, when a printer is connected to the USB port of an AirPort base station, it will use the base station's print server instead. Jan 23, PM. Communities Get Support. Sign in Sign in Sign in corporate. This is an amazing tip! It worked for me! Yeah, yeah, I know, Windows and Mac come from two different companies and forces of the market cause them to inevitably hamper each other's products.

I couldn't figure out why this was failing. Do these settings work in conjunction with or override Bonjour? I actually had to uninstall and reinstall Bonjour on one of those PCs, but it worked perfectly after that evidently some kind of quirky conflict, which makes sense because I need to clean out that cluttered machine.

In any event, please comment if someone knows whether these settings are essentially the same as Bonjour, whether they override those Bonjour settings, or whether they are totally separate and if so, would there be a conflict? Thank you. This all seems way too complicated. Has anyone gotten this to work via Windows Vista or Windows 7? They ask a couple more things in the last few steps. I was looking for this solution for several months.

Thank you! I just followed the instructions for a Windows Vista laptop to connect to a HP printer on an Airport Express and it worked perfectly! First downloaded Bonjour for Windows and went through the steps. When that didn't work, went through the steps described above in original post, changing the port from to My PC can see the printer and has it selected as the default printer, but no print jobs from PC are getting printed.

I can print just fine through the Airport with my Mac laptop. Even easier solution to print from windows. Lost your password? Powered by the Parse. I decided to upgrade my old router and get an Airport Extreme base station. After much searching, I found these instructions and all is well: Make sure the printer is recognised by the base station. Select 'Add a new printer' in Windows Select 'Local Printer' in the dialog box auto detect and install should be off , click next.

The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. This site is not responsible for what they say. Works perfectly in Windows - good job! Thanks for your help Luis [ Reply to This ]. A related method Authored by: robg on Oct 13, '03 AM.

I recieved the following as an anonymous hint, but it strikes me that it's closely related to this one, so I'm posting it here as a comment instead. The PC is fairly noisy, so I didn't want to have to use it to share the printer, especially when the BaseStation can do the task.

I couldn't find any documentation on the net about connecting to a shared printer on the BaseStation from Windows, so set about working out how to do it myself. One shared network printer! BB [ Reply to This ]. Not working with Just to make sure, you're using LPR, right?

If so, what are you using as your queue name? RAW port has changed! Authored by: tehpeh on Mar 14, '05 AM. As of Apple Base Station 5. Then I found this article Print via Rendezvous and AirPort from Windows I also used the method where you connect the printer directly to Windows via USB, set it up, then re-connect the printer to airport and change the port settings in Windows. Don't know if this is required [ Reply to This ].

Authored by: zuma58 on Jan 29, '06 PM. Authored by: pjwuebker on Feb 22, '10 PM. Thanks millions. Worked for me! I love you Port has changed as of 7. Works perfectly now with XP and Parallels. Thanks for the initial post [ Reply to This ].