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Problem: You’ve tried to add a printer using the Print & Scan system preference, but your Mac can’t tell what kind of printer you have. When you click on the printer in the “Add Printer” window, the “Print Using” pop-up window wants to use the “Auto Select,” “Generic PCL Printer,” or “Generic PostScript Printer” drivers, [...]
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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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From Michelle: I’ve got quite a few dups in my itunes library right now and can find plenty of information as to how to fix that problem; however, I am wondering how they ever get there to begin with? The dups I have in my account seem so random – some are from cd’s I have [...]
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For me, one of the most annoying aspects of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard is the print queue. When you want to print a document for the first time after having turned on your Mac, your printer’s queue will open as a regular application in your Dock. There’s no problem with that, since it never [...]
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