Can't Add Any Printers

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ChuckLehman

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I had to have my logic board replaced in my 12" G4 Powerbook. I restored my hard drive content (from Retrospect) and all seem to work fine. Programs and files are where they were as per the last backup.

But now none of my printers are recognized. I can have them appear in the Printer Browser window but when I try to ADD them an error message comes up... "An error occurred while trying to add the selected printer. server-error-service-unavailable."

I have run both TechTools Pro, and DiskWarrior and have restored permissions and zapped the PRAM. The problem occurs with both USB printers on AppleTalk and on our network printers at the office.

I have also...
1. Launch Printer Setup Utility and reselect the printers.
2. Try Printer Setup Repair and ran its utility routines and the problem still exists.

Can you provide some advise? Thanks. I don't want to archive and install OSX if I don't have to.
 
Here's hoping people that need this info will read this:
I had trouble adding new USB printers to the Print&Fax section in OSX 10.6 Snow Leopard on a brand new mac mini 2010. The message I got was "an error occurred while trying to add the selected printer". No printers seemed to work, but when reinstalling OSX from scratch it worked. Note: Selected ROSETTA on install. Tech Support seemed to think bad install of OSX at factory. Having trouble? first try resetting by right clicking on the Print&Fax add printer pane, if that doesn't work, reinstall OSX with Rosetta.
 
Open System Preferences>Print & Fax and right click on the printer in the left hand column and select reseting printing system.

Plus there is a shareware with a 7 day trial called Print Therapy that you can use to reset all the printing system inside OS X. This 7 day trial might help your printing system.
 
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