How Does A Mac 'find' The Printer?

[Bramleyboy]

I have an Apple Mac and a love hate relationship!
I have just bought an OKI wireless printer and spent all day setting it up and it worked perfectly. Then last night before going to bed I wanted to show my wife how well it all worked. I switched on the printer and woke the Mac and had made a colourful picture to print. The three lights were on the Netgear and the message from Mac was 'cannot find the printer' Please anyone what do I do? I cannot face going through the whole rigmarole again. The old pc was always fathomable but I think Jobs strikes back yet again.

[Milvus]

Have you checked whether the printer has rejoined the network when you switched it back on?

[Bramleyboy]

How do I do that? I assumed that if the three lights were on the Netgear the printer was connected to the network. Thank you for your answer but could you tell me a little more! Bramleyboy

[Milvus]

What model printer do you have?

[woofgang]

If you had it set up once, why did you switch the printer off? Mine is an HP and I leave it switched on all the time. If I have to unplug it or we get a power cut sometimes it doesn't "find" the mac again and I have to set it up again. The other thing that messes with it is metal. I stored a big pile of foiled card for crafting on the shelf above it and it blanked it completely, moved the card and all is fine.

[beso]

Macs are so superior. You just need to accept that an ignore the reality.

[ladybirder]

Have you managed to sort it yet bb? I can't help except to say that once I set up my HP Photosmart 5510 up then my Mac found it every time after that. And I always switch the printer off after I've used it. I can't understand why it took you so long to set yours up, mine took about 20 minutes. I hope yours is now working.

[woofgang]

networking printers to my widows laptop is a marathon job!!