Leopard and shared printer problem

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Leopard and shared printer problem

Hello to everyone,

on 26th October I've bought and installed Leopard on my MBP and I am very satisfied with it.
Is is very fast and some new features are amazing. After a few days I've also solved more or less all bugs I've discovered, except one...

In short, I use a HP Deskjet 990cxi printer. It is connected on the USB port of my Mac and it works fine when I print my documents.
I use it also as shared printer so other people in my family can print directly from their computers. With Tiger everything worked fine. Now, there is something wrong.
The Mac get works to print from other computers but it doesn't print them.
On the CUPS page, the status says that works have been got, printed and completed, but the printer doesn't output anything.

Has anyone experienced problems like this? Any ideas?
All settings seem to be right.

Thank you in advance
Alex

MacBook Pro 15.4", Mac OS X (10.5), C2D 2.16 - 3GB

Posted on Oct 30, 2007 1:21 AM

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Answer 1

Oct 30, 2007 10:34 PM in response to StarfighteR81

I tried sending a simple Illustrator document to my EPSON and all it did was pull page after page through the printer until all the paper in my paper tray had been used, but it never actually printed anything. Printer is connected to my Airport Extreme so that it can be shared. Never had any problems with Tiger. Now I can't print. I've downloaded all of the latest drivers too. Any help out there??

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Answer 2

Nov 4, 2007 9:18 PM in response to StarfighteR81

With Tiger, I was able to print from my iBook G4 to a shared LaserWriter 1220 on my iMac upstairs in my office. With Leopard, I get the following error message:

+Attempting to connect to host on port 9100.+
+Network host " is busy; will retry in 20 seconds …+

The HP LaserWriter is connected via an HP Jet Direct ethernet adapter on IP address 10.0.1.4, an can be "pinged" over the network.

I am puzzled.
John

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Answer 3

Nov 6, 2007 9:47 PM in response to madtownjr

Hi Check to see if the Bluetooth is in your preferences. chances are it disappeared when you installed Leopard. I had the same problem and apple has not solved it.

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Answer 4

Nov 7, 2007 4:59 AM in response to John Crawford6

... at least you're getting an errore message. Here everything seems work ok, the system says that the job is completed but the printer doesn't print anything. And it happens only when I send a job from Windows machines while everything work as it should when I attempt to print something form other Mac computers. That's a mistery!

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Answer 5

essorkm

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Nov 7, 2007 5:14 PM in response to John Crawford6

i have a similar problem with HP 4500 & jet direct ethernet adapter with fixed IP address. Leopard for random reasons will loose connection with the network printer, and then sit there FOREVER attempting to reconnect; even if another Leopard system in the next room can print to the same network printer. successfully pinging the printer does nothing. stopping & starting the queue does nothing. restarting Leopard does nothing. the only predictable way i found to workaround is to delete the printer in Leopard and add the same printer back .... which Leopard always then instantly finds on the network (DOH!).

So i think there is a bug in Leopard's network recovery routines vis a vis network printers.

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Answer 6

Nov 7, 2007 5:49 PM in response to StarfighteR81

I just installed Leopard on my G4 PB. In my home I have a Airport wireless network with a Canon IP5200 printer connected to a eMac (OS 10.4) which worked really fine to print using the wireless connection.
NOW, since we have upgraded to Leopard, the printer does not show up. This also happened on my wife's new MacBook (two months old). Neither one of our Mac laptops are able to print now.

We don't have any clue as to what happened or how to fix it. This is after 23 years of owning Mac's.!!

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Answer 7

Nov 8, 2007 12:56 AM in response to Herbert Allan Mclane

Herbert

I managed to get my printer working after reading some of the other threads in this forum.
Unfortunately, I can not remember which thread, or indeed exactly what I did.

I know I deleted my printer, and then re-added it using a Gutenberg variation of the HP driver. I also got it to work using an "IP" printer (address 10.0.1.4). See my post above.

Have a look around in this forum. Good luck!

John

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