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Problem: Your printer is old. Not the came-out-before-Steve-Jobs-retired kind of old, but the I-was-printing-books-before-Harry-Potter kind of old. The manufacturer doesn’t make a driver for Mac OS X Lion (and may never have made one for any version of Mac OS X). Is it possible to use the ancient beast with your svelte new Mac? Solution: [...]
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Problem: You bought a wireless printer or multifunction device that promises to let you print and scan to your Mac without any cables. Life should be good, but you can’t get your Mac and your printer to see eye-to-eye. Solution: Therapy. Both are talking, but neither can hear what the other is saying. You’ve got [...]
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Problem: You plugged your printer into your AirPort Base Station or Time Capsule, turned it on, and tried to print. Sadly, your Mac doesn’t see the printer, so you’re left wondering whatever happened to the Mac’s promise of plug-and-play. Solution: You use Apple’s “Bonjour” technology when you print from a device connected to a Base [...]
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Problem: Your Mac can’t see your printed connected by a USB cable. You know this because you’ve already plugged the USB cable into your Mac and printer, turned your printer on, and tried to add the printer via the Print & Scan system preference. When you press the “Plus” button in the system preference, your [...]
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Problem: You can’t get your printer to print from your Mac, or if it can, the ink is smeared, the page has lines running through it, or the page is crooked. Solution: Most printers offer a host of troubleshooting tests that are built-into the printer. These tests usually print a page with some diagnostic information. [...]
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There are a lot of peripherals you can hook up to your Mac, and any one of them could stop working. We’re talking about mice, keyboards, printers, scanners, tablets, iPhones, iPads, iPods, hard drives, etc. While you can find specific troubleshooting guides for some of these peripherals on MacGuruLounge, I wanted to offer you some [...]
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