[Nobody]

I have an iMac G3 (generation one) running OS 9.2.1 and an iBook G3 (generation two) running OS 10.2.8 . I have an Epson Stylus C42UX attached to the iMac via USB 1. I want to be able to print to that printer from my iBook. Is there any way that I can do that?

[Brisa]

My daughter has a Strawberry iMac ( old one) running Panther and I'm also runnig Panther. We are connected in a home network. All I had to do ws to enable Printer Sharing in my system ( where the printer is connected using USB), in Systems Preferences. Since I didn't have to do anything from her side, it might work in your case, even running OS 9.2. But you'd have to be hooked up in a network.
Go to Systems Preferences, choose Sharing and then Printer Sharing. Let us know if it woks. Or someone might have a better suggestion:)

[albloom]

I just read that OSX USB printer sharing
only works among OSX boxes. I think you're
out of luck.

[Nobody]

No I had already tried turning printer sharing on. The only thing that would work was if I had a printer connected to my network via ethernet. Thanks for your information.

[braindoc]

Sorry to confirm but Albloom's post above is correct. OS X Jaguar is not compatible with printers attached to OS 9 computers' USB ports. However, there is a sort of work-around.
If you can connect the printer to your OS X machine then your OS 9 can print to it. This Link will show you how. Please click on the correct OS version for your case.
It's not really cost effective to do it any other ways since print servers would probably more expensive and still would not solve the postscript requirement for IP printing.

[gsahli]

OS 9 to Classic "USB sharing" works, but you can't directly share from OS 9 to OS X.
But wait - there is an option. There is a small app called Print66 that makes your OS 9 computer an LPR server. You must have a working driver on OS X that will print to LPR comm mode for this to work. That means using Gimp-Print, already installed on Panther, or Gimp-Print plus ESP ghostscript for Jaguar.
Get Gimp-Print & ghostscript here:
http://www.linuxprinting.org/macosx/
Good luck.

[braindoc]

I think Print66 still requires a postscript printer attached to the OS 9 machine. As per their FAQ section:
"TCP/IP from a Mac, the only free print client on the Mac that I know is Apple's Laserwriter 8.5.1 (or later) which can handle Postscript printer (see Print66 homepage at the section "What to do on another Macintosh to set it up as a client").
If you want to print to a non Postscript printer and you have access to an Unix or a Windows machine, you might consider setting up it as a print server, and use the Ghostscript application. I have successfully tested the REDMON utility in Windows environment. Denver Technology's build of PCL3 may be easier to install."
The printer in the original post is a non-postscript device and probably wouldn't work. Please note the last paragraph in the above quote. Their recommendation is to hook the non-postscript printer up to a Unix (Mac OS X) or Windows machine.