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Q: How do you get the macbook pro to see attached network printers that the pc's will print to?

I have a macbook pro with 16gb memeory a core I7 2.5ghz, 512gb ssd. I initially turned it on and it found all (3) of the attached network printers. I did print to one printer successfully. subsequent to that they all stopped working. It would say looking for printers. I reset the printers and now it won't see any network printers. The pc's will still print to them. How do I get the macbook pro to see the printers to add back in?

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Yosemite (10.10.1), Belkin DB750 router

Posted on Jan 18, 2015 12:08 PM

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Q: How do you get the macbook pro to see attached network printers that the pc's will print to?

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  • by Grant Bennet-Alder,

    Grant Bennet-Alder Grant Bennet-Alder Jan 18, 2015 1:11 PM in response to danfs13
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    Jan 18, 2015 1:11 PM in response to danfs13

    Mac OS X: Cannot locate a shared Windows printer - Apple Support


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    danfs13 danfs13 Jan 18, 2015 1:30 PM in response to Grant Bennet-Alder
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    Jan 18, 2015 1:30 PM in response to Grant Bennet-Alder

    Grant, Thank you for the link but they are not attached to a windows pc. They are network printers. (1) by ethernet cable to switch to router and (2) wifi printers. They were originally seen and set up by the macbook pro. I printed (1) document to (1) printer and then the documents started backing up in the print queue. I tried the other (2) printers and they never printed they just got backed up in the print queue. That is why I rest the printing. Now I see no printers when I try to add them back in. The pc still finds them on the network and prints to them. I can print to them if I use a usb cable.

  • by Grant Bennet-Alder,

    Grant Bennet-Alder Grant Bennet-Alder Jan 18, 2015 3:58 PM in response to danfs13
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    Jan 18, 2015 3:58 PM in response to danfs13

    To talk as a full-fledged member of the WiFi portion of the network, any device must know what Network to join and the Network password. If you have not entered this information into the control panel at each of these Printers, you should suspect that those Printers are not fully network-capable.

     

    Some of these Printers are simply too dumb to be full-fledged network devices, but instead rely on a "discovery and set-up" program, which must be run on each computer that would like to connect to them.