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Old January 25th, 2008, 10:12 AM
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Rogue Printer Appearing When Booting-Up...

Hello
I'm setting up a Mac OSX 10.5.1 and connecting it to an HP Officejet G55 printer. Initially, it wouldn't work with the printer driver supplied by Mac but I downloaded HP-All-In-One software for this printer from Hewlett Packard, ran set-up assistant and now I can print.

In System Preferences under Print & Fax, I have "OfficeJet G55" set as the default printer – and it's the only printer. I have also locked these Print & Fax preferences to ensure no changes are made.

However... when I reboot the computer and go to print a document a new printer has appeared "HP OfficeJet G55" (with 'HP' at the front). This has also been added to the printer in Print & Fax preferences – and even when I manually delete it, it still keeps appearing every time I restart the computer.

It's wreaking havoc as the documents won't print on the "HP OfficeJet G55". Does anyone have any ideas how I can get rid of it permanently from the Print & Fax preferences and also does anyone know why – when this is password protected (i.e. I have to type in my password to make changes), that it overrules this and leaves the lock unlocked...

Many thanks!
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