Q: Brother laser printer not responding
My old Airport Extreme Base Station (the white flying saucer one) was acting flakey and I replaced it with a new Airport Extreme Base Station. I set up the new base station and hooked up a Brother HL-5070N laser printer to the base station with Ethernet and an Epson 3800 with USB. I deleted all the printers and replaced them with the Brother and Epson printers.
The problem is that the Brother printer doesn't respond when I print to it. Sometimes it will print when I cycle the power off and then back on.
I have had virtually no problems with either printer in the past. They just worked and worked.
I am running Lion 10.7.3 and have downloaded the latest printer driver from the Brother site. The driver is the CUPS version 4.10 (I think).
I have restarted the computer (nearly new MacBook Pro) several times with no success in curing the problem.
A symptom with the new AEBS is that the status LED is flashing amber which is supposed to indicate that there is a problem. The Airport Utility tells me that there is a problem with the internet connection, but I am able to access the internet.
I would be grateful for any help.
Thanks.
Airport Extreme Base Station
Posted on May 20, 2012 1:15 AM