I have been experiencing some issues with wifi printing with my Canon PIXMA MX885
At first I blamed them on maverick upgrade however I have noticed now the printing also fails from ios Canon printing application
The only thing that has changes is the firmware update that I performed in december
I have now downgraded but I wonder if anyone else is experiencing the same problems?
MacBook Air, OS X Mavericks (10.9.1)
OK so there is a fundamental flaw with LPR printing that is used to advertised bonjour and Airport firmware 7.x
Essentially it will work fine and suddenly die and need a restart of the airport this is pathetic as I had to connect the printer with USB to my iMac and share it and now can't scan to my laptops
Apple please do something about it
It may have something to do with Mavericks moving to SMB networking by default. All other versions of Mac OS default to AFP which of course works better with Apple systems.
There is a lot of posts about this issue if you google it.
SMB2 is flawed. Trying to do Bonjour over SMB is perhaps doubly flawed.
Let me suggest at the very least.
To keep all network names.. and I mean all.. computers, idevices and network equipment to SMB standard.
That means
short.. keep it <10 if possible and <20 characters even if the standard allows longer names.. URL still has a max character count which is easily exceeded.
no spaces.. they are illegal. Apple replace them with a dash.. it just makes the name too long.
no non-alphanumeric.. although some are allowed in SMB standard it is too hard to remember which ones.. stick to pure alphanumeric.
I am afraid smb has nothing to do with it as that is to share files and actually works totally fine
I logged a call with apple yesterday and now testing the printer connected through USB
I will then try it with Ethernet to see if that breaks it
This has something to do with bonjour and lpr but I would think it is nearly the same when you connect USB
It turns out there is an issue with bonjour sleep proxy that is not just related to printing
Issue with firmware 7.7.2 and wireless printing
