If you find yourself needing to print remotely on a Mac from a Windows 7 system, you need to read this article. It worked for me. But you may note that the technique does not work for Windows 7 Starter, which is what comes on most netbooks. Now what?
Here’s my clumsy workaround. It requires two pieces of software: doPDF, which lets you map your print to a PDF file on your Windows system, and Dropbox, which allows you to easily move information between shared systems over the Internet. Install Dropbox on both systems (and register a free Dropbox account) and create a folder named “Mac Print” in the Dropbox folder. It will show up on both the Windows PC and the Mac. Then, when “printing” on Windows 7, print into a PDF in the Mac Print folder. Now you have to use the Mac to print from the Mac Print folder.
It’s clumsy, but it gets the job done.
