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Can anyone help point me in the right direction on how to install a printer driver for a wireless printer that is not in the list? I have OS-X tiger, all updates on a Powerbook G4 1.33Mhz. I have a Hp Photosmart 7960 printer. I connected it via USB and installed the driver that came with the printer and that worked flawlessly. The problem is, I don't want to have to connect the laptop to the printer via cable every time I want to print. The printer is on a Netgear dual port wireless print server in another room in the house, and my XP computers all print to it just fine. However, Netgear does not have a Mac setup program to allow it to go directly to the print server via IP (it is 192.168.2.108 port 2) and if I enter it as an IP printer it doesnt allow me to specify a port in the IP block on the Mac. So I decided I would share it on one of the XP computers and try it that way. My powerbook found it being shared just fine, however it loaded a "generic postscript" driver. When I go to change the driver, the default HP list loads, but of course this driver is not in the list. I made sure to add all the HP drivers off the OS-X install disk. I know the correct driver is on this laptop somewhere, because it has it for the USB entry, but why won't it let me find it anywhere to use that as the driver? I have searched the hard drive using spotlight and just browsed around but cannot figure out where the actual driver(s) is stored nor even what all files would be involved. The generic postscript gives me hundreds of pages of garbage when I try to print to it. Does anyone know how to point the driver for this windows shared printer to the existing HP7960 driver that is setup on the USB port, or know how to input the IP address including the port number into the IP printing setup (however I suspect I would still have the driver problem going that way as well since it doesn't show that printer model in the OSX list of printers)? Help :dummy: