Printer offline due to Airport
Airport Extreme Base station with both a prnter and external hard drive connected. Had been working flawlessly until about a month ago. That was a Lexmark c510 printer, which suddenly began coughing up Software print errors and perpetually trying to reconfigure. I thought this was the printer's software going bad on me.
I replaced it with an HP CP2025 printer. It, too, will not print when connected to the Airport. Printer screen shows "Printer Ready" until a job is sent, and then the printer is suddenly Offline. I swapped USB cables and tried again. No go. I plugged the printer directly into the CPU, and it prints just fine. So...after a lot of cash spent, it seems I focused on the wrong piece of hardware and something has gone amiss in the Airport. I see there are other reports in the last month or two of others having similar print problems with various printers. Anybody have any idea if some firmware update has slaughtered the print capacity of Airport Extremes?
I replaced it with an HP CP2025 printer. It, too, will not print when connected to the Airport. Printer screen shows "Printer Ready" until a job is sent, and then the printer is suddenly Offline. I swapped USB cables and tried again. No go. I plugged the printer directly into the CPU, and it prints just fine. So...after a lot of cash spent, it seems I focused on the wrong piece of hardware and something has gone amiss in the Airport. I see there are other reports in the last month or two of others having similar print problems with various printers. Anybody have any idea if some firmware update has slaughtered the print capacity of Airport Extremes?
Dual 2GHz G5, Mac OS X (10.5.8), MacBook Pro 15" (2009) running 10.6.5
