Problems printing from MacBook Pro, bug?
For the past week I haven't been able to print from my computer. First I get an error message in the actual printer dialog box... says that there's a 'filter error' and that I need to update the printer software. Tried that, and search for latest OSX update but I've got that too (running 10.9.1). My printer is an HP P1102, thought maybe it's on its last legs or something, but test sheets come out fine. Then I also noticed something strange, which seems like a bug: I can no longer save documents as pdfs properly, 1-2 page documents come up as a blank pages, longer documents are missing the first few pages and also some pages at the end, but the rest of the document is normal. These documents are being saved as pset files (I save it as x.pdf and it becomes x.pdf.pset). As the two issues came up at the same time and are linked to the print dialogue box, they're problably related? Is this a bug, or some setting I need to change on the computer?
Hi Eric,
i note that 10.9.4 is Mavericks.I cannot link directly as it is a wireless printer.
I have tried using the Terminal app, and typed the command as you indicated and i got the response attached.
IAIN-HERCUSs-MacBook-Pro:~ iain1$ ping 192.168.1.69
PING 192.168.1.69 (192.168.1.69): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 192.168.1.69: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=6.941 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.69: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=5.657 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.69: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=3.769 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.69: icmp_seq=3 ttl=255 time=4.136 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.69: icmp_seq=4 ttl=255 time=4.226 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.69: icmp_seq=5 ttl=255 time=4.219 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.69: icmp_seq=6 ttl=255 time=4.699 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.69: icmp_seq=7 ttl=255 time=6.325 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.69: icmp_seq=8 ttl=255 time=4.570 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.69: icmp_seq=9 ttl=255 time=4.493 ms
I found that had to break this process. i don't know what this tells you with regard to the status of the printer connection.
Please let me know what I should do next?
IDH1
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