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ssledoux

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Sep 16, 2006
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For some reason, I cannot print from my iPP to my brother printer. It’s been perfectly fine wirelessly printing for years, and all of a sudden, nothing. It never tells me it can’t, never gives any errors, nothing shows on printer, but nothing ever comes out.

Is there a setting that may have possibly been affected/altered with the update that I might be missing?
 
What are the obvious troubleshooting steps you took?

Can you AirPrint from both Mac and another iOS device? Can you reach the admin portal?
 
What are the obvious troubleshooting steps you took?

Can you AirPrint from both Mac and another iOS device? Can you reach the admin portal?

Well, restarting everything, disconnecting and reconnecting the devices to my WiFi network, trying from my iPad and phone (I rarely print from my iMac).

Anyway, I went out and found all the papers I had printed sitting in the tray the next day - not sure what happened, or why it suddenly decided to print all the stored stuff, but it did, and now it’s working again.
 
I have that issue sometimes. What worked the best was re-positioning the printer so that it was closer to the router.

I figure someone placed something somewhere at just the right angle that it caused interference between the router and the crappy printer wifi.
 
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