Dave Balderstone wrote in
news:291220062238308083%%dave@N_O_T_T_H_I_Sbalderstone.ca:

I have been led to believe that the preferred way of submitting a document to
a commercial printer is as a pdf file, the reason being that such a file is
completely self-contained in regards to fonts and graphics and such.

However, there have been times, recently, when the commercial printer
requested the InDesign document and the accompanying support files, fonts and
illustrations and such.

Is there a reason why the printer wouldn't have preferred the pdf file?

I can ping the mac from the pc and the pc from the mac. I can't see
the files or PC printer from the mac even though I have allowed file
and printer sharing. The PC name is OFFICEPC and the group is MSHOME.
The Mac name is Ericsmac, but I can't find what the Mac thinks is the
local network group name. The Apple technical support web site seems
to want you to go to the Apple menu, choose System Preferences, go to
the View menu and choose accounts to find the Windows group name.
Well, I can't find a "view" menu.

Knowing that both can ping each other, what can you tell me about how I
can get each to view the other's files and the PC printer?

Having finally figured out how to set up my Mac with a printer-server I
now have a new problem.
The print quality is simply appalling! I printed a small text-file, and
the letters were seemingly printed at low resolution with little ink.
Is this the result of not using the original printer driver? The
printer is a Canon S-500, and connected directly to the Mac via USB it
prints fine, but not via the printer-server.

I've asked around and have been told that I needed to use another
driver for a setup like this, so I downloaded the Gutenprint/CUPS
package and used the Canon S-500 driver.
What am I doing wrong?

I have a mac with a usb lexmarkc500 printer connected to it. I can
print fine using the mac that it's connected to and I can also print to
it from other macs in my network. I want to print to it from my win xp
pc. I can see the printer and connect to it from my xp machine in a few
ways.

1. I can browse the mac via network neighborhood and connect to it that
way
2. I can go through the add a new printer option in XP to add the the
printer and can connect that way

The issue is that I am connected but everytime I print from the xp
machine it does not print.

I need help. I am a windows convert learning.