With PrinterShare® software you can print your MS Word documents, text files, web pages, photos and all other printouts on any remote computer printer. It is simple and free to use. Print anytime, anywhere. Download it FREE! On your Mac, update your software (if you don’t have an AirPrint printer): Choose Apple menu System Preferences, click Software Update, then install any software updates listed. Even if no updates appear, this ensures that macOS has the latest information about printer software it can download from Apple. Feb 26, 2020 Give it a descriptive name (mine is ‘Study Printer’), and in the Use field, either choose the driver with the name of the printer (‘Epson WP-4545 Series’) either because it exists on your Mac already or, as is the case with the Epson, it’s an Apple supplied driver, or choose ‘Select Software’ to use a downloaded driver (64bit for. Jul 22, 2015 I could print normally using USB but my wireless capabilities stopped. I just had the same problem with my HP C410 series printer. After many attempts at deleting/re-adding the printer software, printer, etc to no avail; I did a soft boot and was able to re-add the printer successfully via the normal Mac Windows and using the actual HP C410 data. Tip: Enter the model of printer in the 'Printer Software' search field to quickly find the printer software to select. If the model of printer is not listed but your printer is a PostScript printer or PCL Laser printer, try the 'Generic PostScript' or 'PCL Laser printer' drivers. Generic printer drivers may not let.
Try this.
To print to your Mac-connected USB printer from Windows, here’s all you need to do:
- Make sure your printer works as expected in OS X.
- Launch System Preferences and go to the Sharing pane. On the Sharing pane, check the box for Printer Sharing, and (if you have more than one locally-connected printer) check the box for the specific printer you’d like to share.
- Switch to your virtual or real Windows machine, and download and install Bonjour for Windows. If you need more help with the installation, Dan’s linked article above has more details.
- After installing Bonjour, you’ll find a new Bonjour Printer Wizard on your Windows desktop. Launch it, then click Next to get to the Browse for Bonjour Printers screen.
- In the Shared Printers section of this screen, you should see your shared Mac-connected printer. Select it, then click Next.
- On the Install Bonjour Printer screen, you’ll probably see the Manufacturer as Generic and the Model as either Generic/PostScript or Generic/PCL. Choose Generic/PostScript first—if that doesn’t work, you can try again with PCL later. If you want this to be your default printer, check that box, then click Next.
- Click Finish; you’re done.
Nov 11, 2016 9:58 AM
Recently, I connected an old HP Officejet Pro 8500 to my network and tried to add the printer to my Macbook Pro running OS X Mountain Lion. I was able to install the printer fine on my PC, but when I tried to add the printer to OS X, I got the following error message:
Can’t install the software for the HP Officejet Pro 8550 printer because it is currently not available from the Software Update server.
Mac Printer Software Is Not Licensed Free
After doing some research online, it seemed I had to perform a Software Update since the driver for my HP printer was supported by Apple. I performed a software update, but there was nothing to update! So now I was pretty confused as to what I should do. Luckily, I was able to figure it out, but it does take a few steps to get your printer properly installed on OS X.
Firstly, you have to manually download the printer driver package for your printer brand from Apple. You can see a list of all the printers supported by Apple on this page:
First make sure your printer is actually listed there because if it isn’t, then you won’t be able to install the printer on OS X no matter how hard you try. Your only other option at this point is to check the manufacturer’s website and see if they have a Mac driver you can download that maybe isn’t included in the Apple driver package yet.
If your printer is listed there, then you need to download the driver package and install it. It would have been nice if they had links directly from that page to the driver packages, but they don’t. If you want the driver package for HP, go to Google and search “HP printer drivers mac” and the first link will bring you here:
Here are the links for a couple of more, but to find any other brand, just put the brand name followed by “printer drivers mac” and you’ll find them. Make sure to look for a URL that says “support.apple.com”.
Canon – http://support.apple.com/kb/dl899
Brother – http://support.apple.com/kb/dl894
Lexmark – http://support.apple.com/kb/dl1397
Epson – http://support.apple.com/kb/dl1398
Samsung – http://support.apple.com/kb/DL905
Fuji-Xerox – http://support.apple.com/kb/dl904
Download the DMG and install it on your Mac. Once you have installed it, go ahead and restart your computer. Now we have to reset the printing system and then reinstall the printers. To reset the printing system, click on the Apple logo and then click on System Preferences.
Now click on Print & Scan under the Hardware sub-heading:
Now in a white area in the list of printers box, go ahead and right-click. A menu will pop up and the only option is to Reset Printing System.
Note that resetting the printing system will remove all the printers from your computer. However, for the ones that were already there, don’t worry because you can add them back without needing to reinstall the drivers or use the CD or anything else. When the printing system is reset, the list box will be empty. Now go ahead and click on the + sign at the bottom of the list box.
It should automatically detect all the printers connected via USB or wired or wireless. First go ahead and add back the ones that were not causing the problem. Then go ahead and add the one that was giving you the error message.
Hopefully, now when you choose the printer, it should install automatically without any errors because you downloaded and installed the driver package manually. If you’re still having trouble, post a comment here and I’ll try to help. Enjoy!