Printer sharing blocked by firewall

I have a new MacBook Pro and while it "sees" the Canon printer, i am unable to get the printer to be shown as online. My System on my iMac shows Printer Sharing: Blocked by Firewall. Is there a way to allow these two Macs to print wirelessly? Thank you! I'm running the current version of Yosemite on both.

Turn off the firewall. It serves no purpose on a private network behind a router.

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Just updated to iTunes 10.5 on my "first Intel generation" iMac, which runs 10.5.8.
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Yes I have been struggling with this for months.
I have concluded that the firewall is broken and simply needs to be avoided, turn it off, don't use it. Adding iTunes to the allowed list should work but it doesn't. Look at your logs, you'l see the many instances of the firewall blocking itues access even though you have specifically told the firewall to allow it.
Annoyances like this destroy the Apple myth: "It just works."
Scared of opperating without a firewall turned on? Get Lil Snitch and use that instead. The Apple Firewall doesn't work anyway, we've seen that as described above. So how can you be sure it is blocking any nasties? You can't. Turn it off and your problem is solved.

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Firewall: "Allow only essential services" (recently changed from "allow all incoming connections")
"Printer Sharing" allowed in Firewall block below.
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Problem: My wife in an adjacent room, using an Apple powerbook wirelessly connected to the printer, suddenly cannot print any document. If I reset my IMac Security Firewall settings to: "Allow all incoming connections," she is able to print, provided my IMac is powered up. My question is this:
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jdm646

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Howdy, all:
We are running Mac OS X Server v10.6.2 on a Mac mini server with no out-of-the-ordinary settings. We're using it as a file, print and chat server in our small office. Here are the basics of the network configuration:
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- Airport connected with a private 192.168 address (reserved DHCP address from the Airport Extreme)
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I have done everything I can to figure out how to make this stop. Even when "Any" IP is given "Allow all traffic," and all rules in the "Advanced" pane are turned off, you still get this annoying pause. Only when the Firewall service is fully stopped do things behave exactly as expected.
We are using only IPP, and the printers are broadcasting over Bonjour exactly as expected. Furthermore, port 631 (and any other ports I could find documented as related to IPP) are also open on all network interfaces. But as I said, even when I have the Firewall service configured to allow all traffic on all ports, so long as it is enabled, you get this very annoying pause before the client can connect.
Totally at a loss. What information can I provide to get some definitive assistance in resolving this issue?
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Waiting for my PrintJob

It's acting correctly - just 'different' than what previous versions did.
The three options listed are kind of in a goofy order because we mentally expect it to go wide open to totally shut or some sort of progressive range.
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I try to connect two laptops via FileSharing, running 10.5.5. Both have the following settings:
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+ Only allow essential services (wording might differ, I translated it)
+ File-Sharing (AFP) appears in the text area below
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Allowing all incoming connections will solve the problem, but since it introduces other difficulties, this is not an option in my setting.
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I have an Airport Express that I bought a couple of years back, it has all the necessary firmware upgrades, i'm running 2 Windows XP boxes going through a combination of Ethernet on 1 directly to the 2 Wire Home Portal 2701HG-B, and I also have an additional Netgear WGR614 v7. All firmware upgrades on all devices is installed and functioning after reset.. I've tried using a combination of the Windows XP built-in networking software, Apple Airport Utility, as well as Bonjour to get things configured and working right over the network. I've also installed the AT&T software, one is running the Mcafee security suite, and mine (the Etnernet box) is running the diagnostic utility.
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