Windows printer on mac

[Moonglum]

A friend of mine that is a professional photographer wants to move over to the mac platform. The only problem is that i cannot seem to find a printer driver for his Kodak 6800 Dye Sub printer. I dont want to install bootcamp or vmware cause this kinds of defeats the purpose of moving over to mac. Is there a way to install the printer via bonjour or some other way. Currently only windows drives is available for the printer. He does a lot of event photography where the people want prints at the function.

Any suggestions ?

Moonie

 

[syntax]

Usually if there is no driver, there is no driver....u can try look for a linux driver though...i will browse a bit for you..

 

[Sputnik]

try here;

http://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/OpenPrinting


no guarantees

 

[BobJones]

Thanks to the wonders of the new-fangled internet site Google try this lead.
Sounds like it costs a bit though.

 

[bekdik]

http://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/OpenPrinting

How does this work on a Mac?

 

[bekdik]

@moon

Just a thought - If your friend's Mac is part of a network, then he could look a sharing the printer from a Win PC.

 

[syntax]

How does this work on a Mac?

as in how do you use it? or how well does it work on the mac?

For using, read the linux help pages on the site, there are 3 installs u need to do. then u jsut find the drivers u need...

As in how well does it work? they usually give you an indication of how well the specific driver works for your printer. I find its pretty damn good most of the time.

Once you have installed the drivers, just add the printer as per normal, it picks it up..

 

[bekdik]

as in how do you use it? or how well does it work on the mac?

For using, read the linux help pages on the site, there are 3 installs u need to do. then u jsut find the drivers u need...

As in how well does it work? they usually give you an indication of how well the specific driver works for your printer. I find its pretty damn good most of the time.

Once you have installed the drivers, just add the printer as per normal, it picks it up..

Do these drivers install on a Mac?

 

[Sputnik]

How does this work on a Mac?

you can find ppd's

 

[syntax]

Do these drivers install on a Mac?

yes

 

[bekdik]

Thanks, it's nice to learn something new.