Hi, I've got a friend with an urgent problem because she needs to print and can't, so hopefully we can resolve the issue this morning. We thought her printer was "bad" but it's not- there's a problem in Apple Print & Fax.
She is using a 1.25 GHz 1.25mb RAM Q16 G4 15" PowerBook that was at OS 10.3.9 and she paid for me to upgrade it to Leopard for her. Leopard in general seems to work fine for her aside from this. The problem occurs with her old HP multifunction printer as well as her new HP printer. When she goes into Print and Fax to add a printer, the printers both show up as connected via USB, and it's a live reporting because if we unplug the printers from the usb, they disappear from the list of printers we can choose. In both cases she has installed the HP software first- from the HP site for the G55, from the new CD for the new printer. We also know that the HP G5 printer Gutenprint driver (for her older printer) comes pre-installed with Leopard's other HP drivers, so it's almost as if she didn't need to install the HP full river set except that she might need the scanner also. When she CHOOSES the HP printers, that's when things go weird. Normally you have to wait a second for the "Print Using" dropdown to pick the HP driver or, if no driver is found, it should give up and let you choose one- right? Well, the little wheel never stops spinning, the system never settles on the correct HP driver- though we know they're installed- and therefore we never even get to choose the driver ourselves. I don't really care that the system FIND the right driver- is there a way to get it to NOT look for the driver, so that we can pick it ourselves from the list? I also have had concern that with the new HP universal print driver (I think it's become that on Macs as well), the computer actually find TWP printer drivers for each printer- the exact one and the universal one- and so it just hangs for lack of being able to "decide" on the correct driver. Of course that could all be in my head.. Has anyone seen a problem with "Print Using" neither "landing" on a printer nor giving up? Is there a way around it? NO desire to use a generic LPR or similar workaround when the printer is fully visible to the computer via USB. Thanks in advance. MIKO Printless in Seattle --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
