Help! Airport Extreme and Brother Printer

Hello,

Anyone who has any suggestions please help.

I have an airport extreme basestation and a Brother HL 5050 laser printer. I have had this set up close to 2 years, with no problem regarding wireless printing.

This fall, I installed Tiger, and the printer no longer works wirelessly (it works fine from USB port). I have tried searching here, apple.support, Brother, random Google searches, etc, and have found nothing. I have download and updated drivers for just about everything imaginable.

Any thoughts? Has anyone else experienced this problem?

Thanks,

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I do see the printer under Base Station Options / USB. My firmware version appears to be 5.6.

Thanks,

Yes, I have done that, I have deleted and readded all printers, I have hard and soft reset both station and printer and recombined in a vareity of permutations, etc. I have mostly gotten fairly frustrated, esp. because this whole set up worked just fine before installing Tiger (which, excepting this, I love).

Do you know of perhaps another driver I should use instead of the Brother Driver that might get around this problem? I don't know if that is a good idea or not.

Thanks for your help thus far, I reallly appreciate it.

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Hi,

Printer is showing in all programs. In Utility, in Rendevous (from Word, Safari, Mail, etc). I have 2 powerbooks on airport, and they both show the same.

When you go to print a document say from Word, you can select the printer in Rendevous - sorry, Bonjour - Printer Utility starts up, but nothing comes out of the printer, and after about a minute of the blue horizontal barbershop pole effect, Utility will say the job was stopped.

Thanks

za9ra22 said:

I had similar issues with my HL-1440 and printing from Macs that had been upgraded to Tiger. The printer was visible to the AE base station, was a visible print option in all applications on each system, and would print when hooked directly to any Mac, but would not print when accessed as a shared resource.

The problem was resolved by the installation of the latest driver from Brother's web site. Previous to the Tiger upgrade, the latest driver had not worked.

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Do you know exactly what you downloaded. When I go to their site, the have a driver for download for 10.3 (CUPS 1.1 - which I have). For 10.4, they send you to a special Tiger Assistance Zone. There, both your 1440 and my 5050 are listed as not needing a new driver, that it comes bundled with Tiger. In fact, it won't let me download anything.

What did you do?

I really appreciate your help, as this is driving me crazy. I can usually figure out all these problems just fine on my own.

Cheers

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any more thoughts?