My Mac is no longer printing to my wireless printer HP 8500 A910.

We have 3 other laptops (PCs) that are having no issues, just the mac? Initially the connection worked "okay" not great, I would need to "reset" the wireless printer as it would say printing and never print. Now the software stalls when I try to reinstall from either disc or download online and it won't print at all. I appreciate any help you could give me.

You can try a reset but no guarantees since the printer is not AirPlay compatible.
Reset the device:
Press and hold the Sleep/Wake button and the Home button together for at least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears.
If that doesn't help, tap Settings > General > Reset > Reset All Settings
Then try pringint.

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http://stevejenkins.com/blog/2010/01/using-the-local-default-gateway-with-a-wind ows-vpn-connection/
Cisco vpn client..
https://supportforums.cisco.com/thread/239113
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Thanks for your response -- especially because you are an HP employee!
My Win2k machine does not use HP software, nor communicate to the HP printer. (HP did not write a Win2k driver for the P1102w -- and evidently no one else has done this, either.) My WinXP and Win7 machines use their HP drivers to send print jobs to the P1102w wirelessly, and both machines have the P1102w set up as a shared printer. Then, when I connect to those machines as a "guest" and submit a print job to those machines, those machines receive the print job and then communicate with the printer using the proper installed printer drivers.
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