Everything we do from here will be done from in the terminal window. For me, I found that the print job would try to print, but the print queue would then immediately become paused, with the print job marked 'Ready to print'. If you don't try to send a print job and have it stuck in 'Hold for authentication' first, strange things can still happen after following the procedure below. It should prompt you for your username and password for the print server, and then revert to 'Hold for authentication'. Then open the print queue for the printer, and click on the refresh (curly-arrow) icon to the right of the job name. Step 1: Try to print something to this printer.
The problem in my case was caused by the print system on the mac from failing to properly negotiate authentication in some way. It took a couple of hours of research and experimentation to discover that this page had most of the information needed to solve the problem. Thus the usually recommended steps failed to fix the problem.
Nor did deleting the associated entries from the OSX keyring help. I could easily add the printers, but when I tried to print, it would accept my username and password for the printer, but then revert straight back to saying 'Hold for authentication'.ĭeleting the printers and recreating them didn't fix it. Today I tried to get printing to work from my mac (running Yosemite) to the printers here at work.
