Cannot printer share in Mavericks

I'm asking because you didn't specifically say:

In the Sharing prefs pane, when you highlight "Printer Sharing," is there a check-mark by the printer you are trying to share?

OK, thanks.

I think we need some basic troubleshooting and maintenance.

After each step, try printing.

I would start with repairing the hard drive and permissions. To do that, start from the recovery partition, and use Disk Utility.

Read first paragraph:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4718

Next, for troubleshooting, try a different protocol/setup for sharing:

This setup is a little bit more complicated, but bypasses some software - Bonjour to be specific.

First, on the "server," go to Print & Scan prefs and click on Options and Supplies, and write down the Device Name - this is the queue name on the server.

Find the IP address of the server in Network prefs.

On the client, Go to Print & Scan, click ( + ) to add, then click on IP printer > IPP. Enter the IP address and the queue name you wrote down. For driver, choose the Deskjet model first time around. If it doesn't work, but looks like it's trying, then try again and choose Generic postscript (which will send postscript from MacBook).

Thanks for that good troubleshooting.

Well, it does sound like a network problem (583 ms is a very long response time).

(but I can't rule out the need to reinstall Mavericks - yet)

Tell me a little about your local network. Model router, location/distance between iMac & MacBook & router, are you in an apartment with many other routers around you, etc? Both computers using wifi?

Things to try:

I would scan for signal strength and to see other competing routers on same channel. Use the scan tool in Mavericks - read here:

http://ambroselittle.wordpress.com/2013/11/09/mac-wi-fi-scanner-in-os-x-maverick s/

(you can reduce interference by setting your router's channel to a different one than everybody else is using.)

I would also set up the router to have "reserved IP addresses" for each computer in the router's online admin web page. This reduces the searching that gets done by computers and router. You can usually use the same IP address each computer currently has, just make it reserved. On my netgear router, setting up the reserved IPs is on a different menu/page than "connected devices."

Please report back with your results.

Just realized I hadn't pinged my Mac since using Mavericks. Got average response ~470 ms. So yours isn't "way off."

I use DHCP on computers, but enter "reserved IP" in the router's setup pages. So, the router's DHCP server always knows what IP to issue each computer. ie, no pause for that in case computer momentarily loses connection.

I think you could troubleshoot by connecting one (or both) of the computers by ethernet.

Otherwise, getting close to recommending reinstall Mavericks - and don't know which computer to recommend!

Check the Firewall on the Mac that the printer is connected to. If CUPSD is not enabled for incoming connections, that is the problem. Set it to accept connections.