Printer icon missing from dock

The printer icon no longer appears in my dock when I am printing something. It stopped appearing about three months ago. I have a MacBook Air with the M1 processor and am running macOS Big Sur 11.2.3. Help!

MacBook Air 13″, macOS 11.2

Posted on Mar 23, 2021 4:20 PM

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Mar 24, 2021 11:00 AM in response to epartoyan

Hello epartoyan,


Thanks for reaching out to us in Apple Support Communities about not seeing your printer status in the Dock when printing. We're happy to help by looking into this more! 


While the following resource is for general printing issues, it provides some relevant troubleshooting steps to try:


Solve printing problems on Mac


If you try all these steps and still have issues, let's have you set up a new user and see if the issue continues under that new user:


Set up users, guests, and groups on Mac


Hope this helps.


Best Regards.


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