Does this make sense and what is the fix? Printer used to work fine with Mac.....would print something from Text Editor or from internet. More recently it seems not to want to do that. By accident I think I have discovered that the problem started about the time I posted about a Garmin GPS problem and got some suggestions to update the Garmin.
I didn't think I had done that successfully since the Mac said it couldn't find the GPS unit....basically it seemed to spin it's wheels forever. I finally gave up and unplugged the GPS unit. There appears to be something related to Garmin that was downloaded on the Mac that is new (or else I never noticed before).
Sometime after that GPS episode I discovered the printing issue. Again by accident I discovered that turning the Mac off, then on resolved the printing issue. More recently the problem reappeared. I believe it is related to a new GPS device that my DW bought .....one for golf courses if you can believe that even exists. That unit is plugged in periodically to the Mac to recharge it. Again rebooting the Mac resolved the printing issue.
Does all that make sense and is there an easy fix? When the printer doesn't print, the Mac thinks it is not connected according to some messages.
I didn't think I had done that successfully since the Mac said it couldn't find the GPS unit....basically it seemed to spin it's wheels forever. I finally gave up and unplugged the GPS unit. There appears to be something related to Garmin that was downloaded on the Mac that is new (or else I never noticed before).
Sometime after that GPS episode I discovered the printing issue. Again by accident I discovered that turning the Mac off, then on resolved the printing issue. More recently the problem reappeared. I believe it is related to a new GPS device that my DW bought .....one for golf courses if you can believe that even exists. That unit is plugged in periodically to the Mac to recharge it. Again rebooting the Mac resolved the printing issue.
Does all that make sense and is there an easy fix? When the printer doesn't print, the Mac thinks it is not connected according to some messages.