"Printer Busy, will retry in 10 seconds..." using USR5461

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"Printer Busy, will retry in 10 seconds..." using USR5461

I recently purchased a U.S Robotics 5461 802.11g Wireless Router which includes a USB print server which I connected my HP PSC 1210c printer to and I'm having a hard time getting my Macbook to print to it (works fine on my PC running Windows). Everytime I try printing I receive a "Printer Busy, will retry in 10 seconds...". I have the Printer setup to use Internet Printing Protocol using HTTP, have the proper Device URI defined, and I'm using the HP PSC 1210 Foomatic/hpijs (recommended) drivers. Any ideas what may be causing the Printer Busy problem?

1.8GHZ Core Duo Macbook with 2GB Ram, Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Posted on Jun 4, 2006 7:49 PM

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Jun 4, 2006 7:55 PM in response to Frank Marano

hi there frank --

are the drivers specifically for the intel mac?? because if they aren't, that is probably why it isn't working. it is possibly that it won't work. i would search for intel-specific drivers, and if you can't find any, contact u.s. robotics to find out if they exist, or if they plan on creating some soon.[:)]

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Jun 4, 2006 8:08 PM in response to Frank Marano

From my limited understanding the hpijs drivers are really just text files (PPD files) so I'm not sure if it matters that they were written for Power PC besides shouldn't Rosetta take care of the translation if needed? That being said I do have a G4 Mac Mini here so I'll load up the drivers on that and see if I have the same problem.

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Frank Marano Author

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Jun 4, 2006 8:28 PM in response to Frank Marano

Loaded the drivers on the G4 Mac Mini and have the same exact problem "Printer Busy, will retry in 10 seconds..."

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Jun 4, 2006 8:31 PM in response to Frank Marano

have you tried stopping jobs, or deleting and adding the printer to the list?? maybe it is a weird software bug that can be remedied that way. if that doesn't do anything, i would contact u.s. robotics. 8)

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Frank Marano Author

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Jun 4, 2006 8:35 PM in response to Frank Marano

Yeah tried that. Already have a call into U.S Robotics tech support.

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Frank Marano Author

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Jun 5, 2006 4:45 PM in response to Frank Marano

There was a special firmware upgrade that fixed the problem. Thanks for all of your help.

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Jun 25, 2006 6:55 AM in response to Frank Marano

Glad you got it working. So what is your overall impression of that router? I was thinking about buying one. The belkin that I have now keeps requiring resets. Very annoying.

Thanks.

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Frank Marano Author

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Jun 25, 2006 5:59 PM in response to Amber Ashby

So far it's rock solid I haven't had to rebooted since I installed it. I'm running 3 wireless laptops on it fairly frequently and two desktops hard wired plus a Vonage router and have zero problems. The built-in USB Print Server also works great and makes printing from my five computers much much easier.

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Baoh

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Jul 4, 2006 12:48 PM in response to Frank Marano

Would you please post your settings? I have the same router and cannot get it to print. Thanks.

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Frank Marano Author

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Jul 4, 2006 1:13 PM in response to Baoh

Make sure your router is on the latest version of firmware (3.93.35.0.6 - http://www.usr.com/support/product-template.asp?prod=5461). Open Printer Setup Utility, Press Add, Press the More Printers.. Button while holding down the option key, select Advanced, change the device to Internet Printing Protocol Using HTTP, Give your printer a Name in the Device Name field, For the Device URI enter your Printer Location which can be found on your USR Routers status webpage (I believe it is http://192.168.2.1:1631/printers/My_Printer by default), Select your Printer Model from the drop down, If your Printer Model is not listed try downloading http://www.linuxprinting.org/macosx/hpijs/, press add and try to print.

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Baoh

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Jul 6, 2006 5:43 PM in response to Frank Marano

No matter how I try to add, I get the same screen, and it doesn't match the one shown on the USR website. I have tried just clicking "Add" from the Printer Setup Utility as well as holding the Option key while clicking Add and holding the Command key while clicking Add. Holding Command causes it to not open. I don't have an advanced button on the screen that shows up. The screen I get is called Printer Browser. This is where the problem starts.
Printer browser lets me select protocol, enter an Address, and enter a Queue. I am limited to the following protocols:
"Internet Printer Protocol - IPP"
"Line Printer Daemon - LPD"
"HP Jet Direct - Socket"

So I selected Internet Printer Protocol - IPP (note the lack of the HTTP note, weird). It will not allow the http://192.168.2.1:1634/printers/My_Printer. I will allow just 192.168.168.2.1 or 192.168.2.1:1634. It will not validate anything more.

This is where I'm lost and hoping someone else has seen this config screen. I am running the latest firmware on the router, but this seems to be that I am either incapable of finding the correct config screen or that OS-X 10.4.7 has a different print setup than other versions of OS-X.

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Baoh

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Jul 6, 2006 5:53 PM in response to Baoh

I think I finally got it. I think when I hit the more printers button in the past attempts, I was hitting the Command key. When I held the Option key, it had the advanced option in the drop down, but the window looked the same, and I assumed it didn't work. Thanks for the help.

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lucky98

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Aug 25, 2006 3:28 PM in response to Baoh

I have the same router (which works great with our 3 other PCs) and was getting the same error message. Spoke with US Robotics help who told me the same thing, we tried it, still didn't work.

Has anyone had success with a US Robotics router and a Samsung ML-2010 laser printer? I downloaded Samsung's most recent driver and the printer works when hooked directly into my Macbook, but won't print wirelessly!!

BTW, you must press the Option key to get the "advanced" option in the down...look for it at the very bottom.

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