hello Doug and Brian

Been off the air for a day or two while I wiped 
my HD and did a totally clean install. At last I 
have overcome the problem of the insane calendar 
error! (Some things dated 09 instead of 11, and 
both 09 and 11 showing up as the year in 
different parts of the Date & Time prefs.)

BUT -- onward to your problem. Dammit, we had 
this same problem here, Brian, with my daughter's 
and my computers, when we started using wireless, 
and it was most frustrating. We have a wireless 
modem which is connected by Ethernet to the (old 
-- all our printers are always old) Kyocera laser 
printer, and we both contact it through the 
wireless modem.

For some time, my daughter was printing through 
me. I have to say I can't remember how we finally 
figured it out, but we did in the end after 
metaphorically bashing and crashing at everything 
in sight. I am sure it was advice from this list 
that finally got us connected properly, so 
although the mushy brain won't fire the required 
synapses, there ought to be something in the 
archives here.

cheers, geoff

At 12:39 PM +1000 14/4/11, Brian Ferguson wrote:
>Sorry for the delay but I have been checking 
>this out with Doug. Compare with his posting on 
>13 April.
>
>Here are my findings.
>
>----
>NOTE: I have Vuescan installed and it affects 
>some of the following. It adds the 'EPSON' at 
>the start of the Printer name and puts a (Scan) 
>button at the top of my Print & Fax System 
>Preferences.
>
>  On the MacBook, within System Preferences>Print 
>& Fax>Print tab, there an item 'Location'. It 
>says 'Brian's iMac'.
>Thus:
>
>---- MacBook
>EPSON Epson Stylus Photo TX710W @ Brian's iMac
>then
>Two drop-down menu items, (Open Print Queue) & (Options & Supplies)
>Location:Brian's iMac [that's to me in another room]
>Kind: EPSON SP TX710W Series@Brian's iMac
>Status: Idle
>----
>Printer sharing - that should be a clue.
>
>Looking at MY iMac Print & Fax I see:
>
>---- iMac
>EPSON Epson Stylus Photo TX710W [I am "Brian's iMac"]
>then
>Two drop-down menu items, (Open Print Queue) & (Options & Supplies)
>Location:Brian's iMac [that's me in my room]
>Kind: EPSON SP TX710W Series
>Status: Idle
>[ˆ] Share this printer on the network (Sharing Preferences)
>Default Printer: EPSON Epson Stylus Photo TX710W Series
>Default paper size: A4.
>----
>
>The only cable connection to the printer is from my iMac.
>My iMac has Airport turned Off.
>There is NO hardware connection between the Time 
>Capsule and the printer. It does nothing for 
>printing.
>It has its direct connection to the Internet by 
>Ethernet cable and this is used by my iMac > 
>Time Capsule ethernet cable or by the MacBook > 
>Airport > Time Capsule.
>
>The in-built Airport software on my iMac 
>presumably operates as a 'Receiver', as you 
>noted, and it gets its signal wirelessly from 
>the MacBook but not through the Time Capsule.
>
>If my iMac is turned off, the MacBook will not 
>print as it cannot locate the printer.
>"Sharing Printer's" is the clue.
>Access, or lack thereof, to this Internet has nothing to do with this problem.
>
>------------------------
>Regards from brianF
>===============
>
>On 13/04/2011, at 7:40 AM, Jon Johanning wrote:
>
>>  On 4/11/11 10:30 PM, Brian Ferguson wrote:
>>>  However, it appears that her iBook uses its 
>>>Airport link to my iMac and then to the 
>>>printer. I assume that if I turn off the iMac 
>>>she cannot print.
>>>
>>  I wouldn't swear to this, since I am no 
>>networking expert, but I think that if the 
>>iBook, iMac, and printer are all on one 
>>network, it wouldn't matter if the iMac were 
>>off -- but the Airport has to be on, of course. 
>>Try an experiment and see.
>>
>>  Regards,
>>
>>  Jon Johanning