Load new Air with Mavericks

[pigoo3]

I am amazed at the number of times a wireless printer needs to be connected to the Mac via USB to install the regular driver before wireless setup can be completed. That kinda defeats the whole idea of wireless.

Kind of like the "paperless office"!

- Nick

 

[lclev]

I feel your pain. My Canon MX922 has to be shut down and restarted to get it to print wirelessly to my Mac or my husband's windows 7 computer. At least it is non-discriminating.

I have three identical HP business printers (model number escapes me). Two of the three will print wirelessly for anything that sends a document - mac or windows. One has never printed wirelessly. No idea why - I have tried all kinds of ideas to try to fix it but, since no one cares, and it belongs to the secretary who uses it through usb, I just quit worrying about it.

Wireless printing can be one of the biggest pains. When they work it is great.

Lisa

 

[Slydude]

That would drive me absolutely bonkers till I figured it out. Especially since the others work. This is part of the reason my wife cringes when I make changes to the gear/setup. The words she hates to hear most are "it's easy".

 

[Lifeisabeach]

Drivers were downloaded, but are useless if the Air cannot even see the printer.
Yes it works from USB
Neither of the Airs had firewall turned on.
Even the successor model Epson 620 that is sold at the Apple Store (and so presumably should work with current Apple computers) did not work.

I agree with pigoo's assessment... whatever the problem is likely has something to do with your network, or how the printer is connected to it. To avoid getting things confused here, I suggest you start a new thread complete with details so we can be better focused on it since your problem isn't exactly related to this discussion.

 

[pm-r]

So far our new Canon MG5620 AIO has been working well oner "wireless" only and it has never been connected by and wired connection and no re-connection needed, but I sure wish I could kill the seemingly unnecessary print cleaning it insists on doing before and sometimes even after a print job. Well I assume that's what it's doing with all the extra noises it makes and the *&%&*# ink levels are down to 3/4 full and we haven't even printed 20 pages!!

But one thing that I really wonder about with so many "wireless" printers is the fact that they fail to mention that one needs to have an existing wi-fi network (router of base etc.) to connect to.

How dumb is that when every Mac and iDevice already has wi-fi builtin!!

Then there are all the various and different wireless names they use just to complicate things further.

I'm a pretty Mac tech savvy knowledgable guy, and even though our Canon wireless AIO is working well with our Macs and iPads, I haven't got a clue as to what actual wireless software or name it's actually using. And that's just crazy!! But thanks to the WWW and the browser setup article I came across it is working well otherwise I'd probably still be working on it and cursing loudly getting it setup and working!!

At least things seem to be better and easier than they were several years ago setting up AIO printers/scanners wirelessly, but that's no saying much.