sharing an all-in-one printer from ME

[maytagrepairman]

I have a lexmark all-in-one x85 printer usb connected to a ME desktop. All works fine. I want to be able to print from my laptop, XP Home edition. I have a D-link for networking. File shareing is fine and then I share the printer from ME. I can see the printer from the laptop. I add the printer and it adds the xp driver for the x85. All looks good, except I cannot print. Not the test page not anything. I read on lexmark's site that all-in-one cannot be shared on a network. This doesn't make sense to me. Certainly it's possible, even if I have to fake out the printer so it seems to come from the desktop. Any ideas?

[Baser-X]

According to the Lexmark site, the problem is due to the internal architecture of the following Lexmark devices:

Lexmark x63
Lexmark x83
Lexmark x85
Z82 Color Jetprinter

The only other info I could find on this suggests that it may be possible to bypass the problem using the serial port & a switchbox instead of USB. This method was untested, but in theory it should make the printer think it is local for both computers.

Good luck!

[ceh383]

There are some printers that just don't work over a network, and yours looks like one of them.......

http://support.lexmark.com/cgi-perl/...docid=ENUS2718