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Nighthawk R7000: OSX printer sharing
I have a small office of Macs and an HP LaserJet 3050. I used to have it shared via Bonjour from an Apple Airport Extreme base station, but have replaced that with a Netgear R7000 Nighthawk. ...
Solved. The ol' unplug/replug seemed to do the trick. Even though the R7000 had been seeing the printer fine (ReadyShare USB Control Center based printing was successful), it wasn't serving it up over Bonjour. Unplugging USB and plugging in again has fixed it.
On OSX 10.10 and higher, it appears as documented in the dropdown menu from "+" under "Nearby Printers"
ON OSX 10.9 and below, it appears in the "Default" tab of the "Add" window
I am not familiar with that particula printer. Is it capable of LAN port connection or wireless connection
to the router? For me I use color laser multi-function printer wirelessly connected to a router.
The printer doesn't have any special networking, just USB connection.
I just assumed that when the Nighthawk claimed it could share USB printers with OSX, it meant it would do it in a more OS-native, convenient way than having users individually manually connect to the printer through a third-party app and freeze out all other users while they're connected.
Is the link I shared just referring to printers with their own Bonjour network sharing? It mentions connecting the printers via USB, which led me to believe none of the printer's own networking capabilities were involved.
The link you referenced certainly states like the Nighthawk can share a USB printer via Bonjour. The R7000 manual, however, makes no mention of Bonjour support.
