My Mac is suddenly saying "Unable to connect to printer; will retry in 30 seconds...".
Though my printer (which I've only had for 2 weeks, so this doesn't make me feel too good about my purchase that I'm already having problems) says it's connected to my wireless and my wireless is working for my computer, or I wouldn't be able to type this, I'm getting the message "Unable to connect to printer; will retry in 30 seconds..."
Why is this happening? Anybody. . . ???
Help is much appreciated!
What printer? What version of OS X? What router?
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