MacOS Big Sur Beta Printing Issues
print something.
Bingo, it works
My only scanner is a HP OfficeJet 8600 and I have it wired on my network, and MAC wants it to be Air-Print, which I do not use here. So when I try to print I get an error that it will cause an error on your computer, and click OK and it continues, but the scanning seems to work ok, but the printing hardly ever works at all.
I downloaded the updated HP Printer drivers that was provided in another Apple Support email, and it did not fix using the HP Drivers, just keeps telling me that the date on this driver could not be verified, and will not print. I just downloaded it. This is a huge mess, and I wish I could roll it back, because this has been a nightmare, and every patch, more and more things seem to break. I was very happy with Catalina which was not an old OS, barely a year when they started releasing Big Sur.
Any idea when HP and Apple are going to play nice and Apple will get what they need from HP so that the most widely used brand of printers will once again work as nicely as they always have on MAC.
TEST:
Using Chrome or Firefox, create a new Google Doc and make Calibri your font.
Add a line or two of text on page 1, and hit enter until you get to page 2, then enter some dummy text there as well.
Try printing both pages directly out of Chrome. In our experience page 1 will print fine, but anything after that will give a font error. If you print just page 1, or just page 2 by themselves, it works fine. Additionally, if you do the same test with Arial instead of Calibri it works just fine. It doesn't matter if we're sending this to a Sharp MFP, a Canon, or an old HP LaserJet. The same Google Doc that fails in Big Sur will print both pages fine in previous OS versions.
Only happens on MacOS Big Sur (patch level doesn't matter.)
Only shows up when printing 2 or more pages at a time (first page always prints fine, font errors on any following.)
Using Calibri is the easiest one to reproduce the behavior, although we have seen some issues with Trebuchet as well. Arial works fine.
We can reproduce this behavior on Sharp, Canon, and HP printers.
It doesn't matter if the printers were deployed through an MDM or manually added to the machine.
If you download a PDF file so the OS isn't processing the fonts, it prints fine.
Just delete the printer and download & install this from the canon website. Copy the URL below and remove the space between h and t in the "https" before clicking enter.
h ttps://ph.canon/en/support/0100556501/12?model=6220B
I've got similar problems with an Epson multi-function, which was working fine until the latest OS update and now either won't connect or won't accept print jobs. Tried removing and reinstalling, but that just leads to another error message saying "unable to communicate with the printer"