AE says my printer's offline

Tried it before tried it again, but still no luck. The printer (Epson C120) works only directly connected to the Mac. I´ve re-installed and re-newed everything, drivers, cables, ... And when you bring in a Mac with the old OS-X, it works automatically through the Airport like a charm.

This worked for me, too. thank you for that "Reset printing system" suggestion.

I have the same problem, in two different places, but it is a little bit more funny!
The printers, one is a brother the other is a Canon, plugged in the Airport Express print only with an iMac, the two macBook are unable to print. The operating system is Tiger last update!
I try to suggest this reset and see if it works.

Same problem with my Powerbook G4 running Leopard. My new Epson RX680 works fine when plugged in to the USB port directly but is "off-line" when plugged in to the Airport Express. The odd thing is my iMac has no trouble printing wirelessly - just the Powerbook. I hope someone comes up with a solution soon. Thanks in advance!

Great information that may solve my problem.

Question:
New to Mac World.
How do you "right click"?
I am using a Mighty Mouse.

I created an account just to say "thanks" to nigelradestock for the "right click" tip. My printer works now.

Yay!!! Thank you nigelradestock, the right-clicking suggestion worked for me, as well.

Why don't they tell you these things in the instruction manuals?

I have a similar problem, running 10.4.11 on iMac and Extreme base station with remote airport express. Lexmark P4350 USB to the Express. Airport admin can see the printer but when ever i print it says printing then eventually times out! Can anyone shed any light on this problem or should i reside myself to the fact that it is incompatible?

thanks

Thank you thank you thank you! After 5 hours of trying many different things, the right-click on printer icon is what fixed it.

Check out your system preferences, then choose "keyboard and mouse". In the section where it lets you set mouse preferences, set up each side of the mouse to your liking: one as primary and one as secondary. One of them will equate to a "right click". try it.

Okay, it DID work for a while, BUT: The situation is this: I set up my HP Laserjet 1200 via AirPort and everything worked fine until I started printing a pdf document from a client. As it was processing, I noticed that it was set up for US Letter paper instead of A4 (my default). So I went into the printer queue and deleted the print job. I also briefly turned my printer off and then on again, because it was still flashing; trying to print the deleted job. Then I changed the page setup in the document, and pressed "print" again. The printer icon started jumping up and down, and I was told in an error message that it could not connect to the printer: it was busy. It was not!

I have temporarily connected my printer back to my iMac, but would like to have it working through AirPort instead, so any help would be much appreciated!

Hi all, ok this is to every one using HPs, just go to HP website, download all the printers driver updates for the printer you are using, in my case it was about 300 MBs, ok next, just hook up your USB printer to your AEX, then printers under sys. pref. click add new or search for new printers, it might take a while, you will see a list of printers detected, which might be the one hooked to your AEX, now it will tell you which driver to use from the drop down look for your printer model, click it and hope this works, if this did not work i would suggest to wipe out all the printers installed on your mac, then start from step 1.

Thanks AFendi, I'll try that.

Okay, well it seems to have worked; I'm crossing my fingers that it will continue to work!

This worked for me too! Thanks for the great tip!