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I never was able to get rid of the message Waiting for the print queue to be available. The I button says to click the cancel button on my office jet 7612 but there is no such button. I’m ready to chuck my ho and go get a canon printer. 

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Hi.  I too was ready to sling my HP Deskjet 1510 which would only scan but wouldn't print "Waiting for printer to become available".

Then 1 person here suggested changing the name of my HP folder from HP to HP2. (library/printers/HP_

I have no idea why that worked, but miraculously it did. Please give this a go.

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