Mavericks won't allow docunments to print via WiFi network printer

Is the HP 3180 Photosmart a wireless printer?

A printer connected to a Mac's USB port and the same printer connected wirelessly or to your Extreme may as well be two different printers, as far as the Mac is concerned.

These instructions may help: OS X Mountain Lion: Set up a printer

It may be beneficial to reset the printing system and add the printer again: Mac OS X: How to reset the printing system

I don't have a quick answer for you pvMikeV other than to suggest setting up the printer again as if it were new. Upgrading from Snow Leopard to anything later results in somewhat of a rocky transition with one's existing printers. I suggest you repeat the "reset printing system" on the Mini as well. The procedure is slightly different for Tiger but that document explains it.

Make the printer work with the Mini and it should continue to work when it is shared. If not, try connecting the printer directly to your MacBook Pro, add it as a new printer, and verify that it works. That ought to rule out any Mavericks incompatibility. Just be sure to create a new printer entry in Print & Fax for each different kind of connection. Delete ones you no longer need.

Great! Thanks for the update Mike.

Since Lion, Apple has mandated that all printer driver updates go through them. Apple doesn't write the drivers, they just distribute them through the Mac App Store. So the problem is likely to be HP's, and HP has enough trouble talking to HP. Every time the App Store announces an HP driver update I cringe thinking my ancient HP printers will stop working, but that hasn't happened yet.

I'll keep your solution in mind and will refer people with similar problems to this thread. Thanks for finding the workaround.

A "me too" post I'm afraid. It's not just the HP 2200 which refuses to print but my Dymo label printers too.

I do have another HP printer which is native wireless (LaserJet 400) and that prints fine, The other printers are connected over Iomega iConnect boxes which worked fine under Mountain Lion but now refuse. The symptoms are exactly those described by the OP, the document appears to print as far as the MacBook is concerned but the printer does nothing. This suggests that it's not (just?) the HP drivers which are problem.

Me too. iMAc + Mavericks + directly-connected Brother 1250 laser printer set up for network sharing. Two MacBook Airs with Mavericks on same BT WiFi network as iMac can no longer print to the iMac's Brother 1250 printer. Printing to a WiFi-connected Samsung printer failed as well. I believe this is an Apple Mavericks O/S issue, a bug. It needs fixing.

Same problem here, with a Xerox Phaser 3200MFP.

It looks like it sends the file to the printer but the printer does nothing. Haven't tried with a USB connection because I don't want to use it this way, and the printer is further than the longest cable I have. Also, I need this setup because I want to use Internet Printing to print in another city.

The thing is that under Windows 7 the printer works fine on WiFi, and I can also print over the Internet. Also, I can even to network scanning over WiFi, which is not possible on Mac.

What can we do?

PS: The only solution that I see for the moment is to run Windows under Parallels, share the printer in the virtual machine and then connect to the network printer but this is a weird solution for a Mac, isn't it? 🙂

My 2011 macbook pro now an expensive paperwieght - cant print to any of 5 printers and cant get on wifi. Is there a thread on here that tells you how to go back to previous OS

I am having exactly the same problem with two different Canon printers and a Mac mini running Mavericks: they print when plugged in directly using USB, but can't be found when only on wi-fi. I have an iPhone and an iPad which can find both of the printers and print from them. My conclusion is there must be some incompatibility between Canon and Mavericks. Hoping for a patch soon!

Same here! I have an HP 1510 Deskjet USB printer. Works fine directly connected to my macbook air. But connected to my QNAP box the wifi printing doesn't work. You can see the job reach the print server on the QNAP box, just fails to print.

Frustratingly though, if I run Windows 7 in virtual box on my macbook air it prints fine over wifi! Plus it works fine on my wife's laptop that is running snow leopard.

Grrrr! Not impressed Apple. Sort it out!

Install Gutenprint and re-add the printer using that driver:

http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/MacOSX.php

Until today, I was having a problem that sounds in some ways similar to those discussed in this threat.

I have an HP Laserjet 1220 connected by USB cable to a second generation Airport Extreme. Under OS X 10.5 I was able to print to the Laserjet fine over my Airport Extreme WiFi network. When I bought a new MacBook Pro running Mavericks, I wasn't. I also noticed that the Airport Utility 6.3.2 could not "see" my Airport Extreme - although I did have internet connectivity. I have spent around six hours on the phone with various Apple experts (and HP experts), having logged official support cases with both, and these calls have included several screen-sharing sessions, trying to solve this problem - without success. Along the way, I tried several times turning off my Mavericks firewall, but that had no effect.

Today, however, I noticed in my Firewall settings that with the Firewall ON (which is normally is) incoming connections were disallowed for mDNSResponder. As soon as I changed this setting to allow incoming connections, the Airport utility was able to see my Airport Extreme, and I was able to create a printer for my HP Laserjet 1220 and print to it.

I'm not saying this will be the solution to everyone's problems, but it has been the solution to mine.