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Hi everybody, I have exactly the same printing problem, but unfortunately suggested solution (deselecting the "Enable bidirectional support" checkbox) doesn't appear to be the right one in my case. My printer realy does react on that, by not in the way I would expect it to. With bidirectional support enabled, documents are being sent to shared printer, but they keep waiting in the queue forever with status "printing" (which actually never happens), and I am unable to delete them unless I restart both of my computers. When I disable bidirectional support, what I get is that documents are not even sent to printer, simply nothing happens at all. Or at least it looks like that.
The scenery is more or less the same as described above - two machines running Windows 7 Ultimate, one of them desktop computer connected to router via Ethernet, with HP LaserJet 1020 attached to its USB port, and another one is notebook computer, which connects to local network wirelessly. Homegroup is successfuly created (no problems reported), and file sharing works for now. Shared printer is visible to another homegroup member (notebook), it's added as network printer, and driver installation went smoothly.
Prior to upgrading to 7 Ultimate, XP Professional and Vista Business were installed on my desktop and notebook, respectively. The same printer was shared in workgroup (I had the same username/password on both computers), which now seems to me as a better solution...
I would appreciate any suggestion that might help in this case. Thanks!