Cannot printer share in Yosemite

This follows my question here: Cannot printer share in Mavericks.
Unfortunately, I haven't been able to printer share since upgrading both the iMac and MacBook Air to Mavericks. Upgrading both to Yosemite has not, unfortunately, fixed the problem. As before:
The iMac can print to my HP OfficeJet Pro 8000 A809 as always. It still has "Share this printer on the network" ticked. But now I cannot print from the Air.
I removed the printer on the Air and added it back, but get "Unable to download the software from the server at this time."
I therefore downloaded all HP printer drivers and rather than selecting the printer from the "Nearby Printers" list, clicked "Add Printer or Scanner ...", selected the printer there, waited for "Gathering printer information", clicked Use _ Select Software, and picked the selected the printer in question. Clicked Add.
I go to print something, and I get "Printing - Printing page 1, 34% complete...". And that's where it sits.
Help. Any ideas most welcome. Thanks in advance.

Thanks for that good troubleshooting.
Well, it does sound like a network problem (583 ms is a very long response time).
(but I can't rule out the need to reinstall Mavericks - yet)
Tell me a little about your local network. Model router, location/distance between iMac & MacBook & router, are you in an apartment with many other routers around you, etc? Both computers using wifi?
Things to try:
I would scan for signal strength and to see other competing routers on same channel. Use the scan tool in Mavericks - read here:
http://ambroselittle.wordpress.com/2013/11/09/mac-wi-fi-scanner-in-os-x-maverick s/
(you can reduce interference by setting your router's channel to a different one than everybody else is using.)
I would also set up the router to have "reserved IP addresses" for each computer in the router's online admin web page. This reduces the searching that gets done by computers and router. You can usually use the same IP address each computer currently has, just make it reserved. On my netgear router, setting up the reserved IPs is on a different menu/page than "connected devices."
Please report back with your results.

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