Same old...no printer with Maverick?

I have two Brother printers. My applications see both. A tiny hint might be that they are both listed as Generic Postscript printers. Neither prints and only teases that they might. My Print Queue says "Job Pending on Server." I deleted the previous job that stopped at this point, Downloaded new drivers from Brother that are specifically for 10.9.1, installed them, restarted both iMac (brand new) and printer and invoked 'Print' again with the same outcome. "Job pending on server.' There are no other jobs waiting in queue. To further this dilemma, the new iMac is set up to share the printer with another iMac on our network. The other Mac sees the printers also, but nothing happens. When I asked the iMac to give me an update on the 'supplies' for the Brother and 'that information is not available' which suggests that the iMac and printer are somehow avoiding a critical handshake of some kind.
Oh, and as with all the other problems associated with Maverick, the replaced iMac printed with no problems and shared the printers with no problems.
Everything has been updated through software update. Oh, yeah...the printers run through an Airport Extreme.
Since the problem seems to be across manfacturers, has anyone been able to narrow the possible problem?
Thanks.

I have not solved my Brother/Mavericks printing problem - which is "printer in not connected" message.
OS 10.9.1
Brother DCP 8045D
Deleted Brother printer and Brother folder in Library/Printers
Reinstalled latest Brother print drivers.
Added the printer back.
Still having same issues.
Has to be Mavericks 10.9.1 update; printing is different as Brother was always reliable in 10.9
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