HP Laserjet 1010 & Wireless printing via Airport USB - Not working in SL

Okay, maybe I gave a premature all-clear signal 😟

After setting up the Gutenberg driver on three computers and printing test pages from all those machines, I was out having a coffee. Having returned home, I wanted to print another page from a computer that had already successfully printed a page earlier today.

Well, guess what, it didn't work (without having changed anything about the configuration of course). Instead I was left with this error message:

*Printing page 1, 1%*
*Network host '*+IP address+*' is busy; will retry in* xx seconds...

Now that I power-cycled my AEBS, I can print again. I wonder how long though ...

Maybe printing from a different computer disables other computers accessing the printer on the same network?! No matter what triggers this new problem, it's pretty annoying.

I had the same problem after installing SL.

Tried everything from driver updates to power cycling everything. Firmware on my AE was up to date. Nothing worked. SL 10.6.1 update also didn't fix it.

What finally helped was to completely reset (not just restart) *the AE*! After that I added the printer again and wireless printing was back.
Don't forget to check the WAN checkbox in the printer tab of the airport utility and enable for network in printing & fax settings.

Hope this works for u 2

Okay, resetting the base station and building the network from scratch did the trick. pecd, you're now officially my hero of the day ^^ Thanks a lot!!!

As for me, no power-cycling, nor resetting helped. in the end, i followed one hint in this thread and changed radio mode to 802.11 b in the airport utility's wireless tab. my printer immediately started printing what was left in the queue. i then changed radio mode to 802.11 g and back again to b/g combined. It still worked using the other radio modes. So, it seems like once the system sucessfully recognized the printer and was able to actually print, the original settings can be restored without losing functionality again. Yet, I'm not sure if only this did the trick. Previous steps might have helped resolving the problem.
I use a new MacBook Pro running SnowLeopard 10.6.1, an AirPort Express Base Station running (supposedly the latest) firm ware 6.3 and an hp laserjet 1010.

Message was edited by: iamnothere

iamnothere,

I have seen weirdness with my 6.3 firmware Airport and Snow Leopard at home, where when things work, the work, but sometimes I have to do things that don't really make sense to get them working. The latest (7.4.2 firmware) Airports do not seem to have the same issues.

Just trying to help.

Andrew