Thanks Doug and Cliff.

I spent part of Friday testing how to get the Epson TX710W do do any printing, from my iMac anyway, without using a direct connection via cable.

No go really. I'll stay with a direct USB cable from iMac to printer so wife's MacBook can still print through me.
As a by-product, using this method also keeps VueScan in good shape.

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On 15/04/2011, at 4:59 PM, Doug Browne wrote:

> Thank you for that Cliff, you explain it well.
> 
> My problem was that until I visited The Apple Shop a few days ago, I did not know that the AirPort in my newish iMac was receive only and so to transmit to a printer I needed some sort of base station! 
> I should have reworded the sentence below to read 'it has to receive a wireless signal.'
> 
> Doug
> 
> On 14 Apr 2011, at 18:00, Cliff Bender wrote:
> 
>> (11/04/13 3:21), Doug Browne wrote:
>>> To make a wireless printer work, it has to receive an Internet signal.
>> 
>> and Brian Ferguson wrote:
>>> EPSON Epson Stylus Photo TX710W @ Brian's iMac
>> 
>> I just wasted Monday trying to get my vintage 2001 HP LaserJet working over Ethernet and AppleTalk to 2 computers recently upgraded from 10.5 to OSX 10.6. In the end the solution was as expected early in the day, but took awhile to figure out. Perhaps this will help. (BTW, I'm no networking or OSX expert.)
>> 
>> Brian's note shows Snow Leopard being used

>> [...]

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