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What would make a Bonjour printer not be available as a Bonjour printer? - deckeda - 01-03-2008
Bonjour seems to be working fine on both Macs here at the office and I can see lots of Bonjour printers available to "Add". Just not the one 2 feet from my desk.
I can add it as an LPD printer and it prints just fine. It's an HP 2015dn and I have all the HP software installed for it.
Clicking the Utility button in Printer Setup Utility's Printer List, I can go through all the printer's settings and see that it should be advertising itself as a Bonjour printer.
Re: What would make a Bonjour printer not be available as a Bonjour printer? - space-time - 01-03-2008
maybe it does Rendez-vous
Re: What would make a Bonjour printer not be available as a Bonjour printer? - MacMagus - 01-03-2008
'Got a router in the mix?
What model?
Sometimes they don't pass certain protocols.
Re: What would make a Bonjour printer not be available as a Bonjour printer? - Cary - 01-03-2008
Not sure if this makes a difference or not - is the printer hooked up to the network, or directly to the computer via USB?
Re: What would make a Bonjour printer not be available as a Bonjour printer? - deckeda - 01-03-2008
These are all networked, not USB.
A few months ago, when our department was a mix of Panther and Tiger, all of the Tiger machines could see it and about half of the Panther machines could. At the time I chalked it up Tiger maybe being a bit more robust about Bonjour.
But we're on different nodes or subnets in my group so maybe a (mis)managed router is in the mix.
Re: What would make a Bonjour printer not be available as a Bonjour printer? - Jimmypoo - 01-03-2008
Poor French?
Re: What would make a Bonjour printer not be available as a Bonjour printer? - comaplate - 01-03-2008
The presence of an Au Revoir device on the same network?
Re: What would make a Bonjour printer not be available as a Bonjour printer? - deckeda - 01-03-2008
So that's my problem. It has the double-secret antidote software installed.
Re: What would make a Bonjour printer not be available as a Bonjour printer? - Mac1337 - 01-04-2008
Time to roll out Enola Gay.