03-12-2012, 08:46 PM

Hello Gang,

I joined this group to try to help anyone else who is going crazy, like I was, trying to get their wireless printer recognized by their computer. I have an Epson wireless printer that worked fine until yesterday when I went to remotely print something and I received a communication error. I tried everything I could think of but my laptop would not recognize the printer.

Tonight, I remotely rebooted my wireless router and once the network came back up I got one of the little popup windows that asked (I'm going on memory here so don't quote me) would you like to allow incoming network connections, or something to that effect. Once I clicked allow, my computer saw my printer. I highlighted it, clicked add and everything worked perfectly.

So apparently, somehow, and I don't know how, my computer was blocking an incoming network connection to my printer. Once that was allowed, it solved the problem. I hope this helps someone.

Mike

03-12-2012, 08:52 PM

So apparently, somehow, and I don't know how, my computer was blocking an incoming network connection to my printer. Once that was allowed, it solved the problem. I hope this helps someone.

System Preferences, Security, Firewall tab. Turn it off. You don't need it as long as you have a router between your connection and the Mac.

03-12-2012, 10:05 PM

Thank you.