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From: Gregory Weston <uce@splook.com>
To: All
Subject: Re: Using airport to share prin
Date:Sat, July 05, 2008 10:42 PM


In article <jollyroger-6366FB.15523204052008@individual.net>,
Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:

> In article <uce-362285.16233104052008@newsclstr03.news.prodigy.net>,
> Gregory Weston <uce@splook.com> wrote:
>
> > In article <IikTj.93122$jH5.77161@newsfe3-win.ntli.net>,
> > Luis Ortega <lortega@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Thanks, Gregory.
> > > Do you have any ideas how a bunch of Macs could then share a scanner or
> > > two?
> >
> > That functionality (as well as printer sharing) is actually part of the
> > stock OS install so you could just hang the scanners off of a couple of
> > the machines.
> >
> > Scanner sharing is accessed through the Image Capture application that
> > should be in your /Applications folder. I have no firsthand experience
> > with it; for my environment it's just as sensible to scan locally and
> > then transfer the resulting file to the machine where I need it (if
> > necessary). I'll fiddle with it if you need me to, though.
>
> Are you sure about that? If scanner sharing is built into Mac OS X,
> that's news to me!

I was looking at the config screen as I typed that message, and I recall
it begin there since at least the 10.3 era.

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