I recently upgraded my wife’s laptop from Windows Vista to
Windows 7 Home Premium. (The laptop manufacturer sent us a free upgrade coupon
since we purchased it not too long before Windows 7 was released.) This morning
she discovered that she can’t print to the Canon MP830 that is shared from the
G5 Mac (running Mac OS X 10.5.8) in our living room. In Vista, I had it working
via Bonjour. I’ve now learned a little too late that Bonjour doesn’t work in
Windows 7. I googled for a solution, but all I was able to find was a bunch of
other people complaining about the same thing: printing
from Windows 7 to a printer shared from Mac OS X wasn’t working as it had been
in Windows XP or Vista.
Not to worry, though. After about 30 minutes of trying various solutions and just poking around in Windows 7, I found that the solution is pretty simple. The following procedure assumes you already have Printer Sharing enabled on your Mac.
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