I have a problem with my printer. Today I purchased a new printer (HP Officejet All-In-One 5610) because my old printer (Lexmark) isn't compatible with macs. I've had a powerbook (1.67 G4) for about half a year now, and I got a mac mini (1.42) a couple days ago. They both have Tiger installed, and are fully updated. So when I went to install my printer, I plugged the USB cable directly into my mac mini, and followed the instructions from the HP manual. After installation, it only read my printer as a fax machine for some unknown reason. Confused, I tried installing the printer onto my powerbook, and it installed flawlessly. It read both as a printer and as a fax machine, and performed without problem. The driver isn't included in Tiger, so I had to install from the CD. The latest driver (7.4.2) is included on the cd.
Does anyone know why my mac mini isn't recognizing the printer part of my AiO machine? I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling, repairing permissions, doing the manual reinstalls provided on the HP website, talked to tech support on the HP website (unfortunately...well, they didn't know anything about my problem), and the last thing I can think of would be to do a clean install of Tiger onto my mac mini, but I've loaded so much onto it already that I'd rather not do that.
Does anyone have a solution?
Does anyone know why my mac mini isn't recognizing the printer part of my AiO machine? I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling, repairing permissions, doing the manual reinstalls provided on the HP website, talked to tech support on the HP website (unfortunately...well, they didn't know anything about my problem), and the last thing I can think of would be to do a clean install of Tiger onto my mac mini, but I've loaded so much onto it already that I'd rather not do that.
Does anyone have a solution?