Tiger install kills HP 2600n laserjet printer

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toosmooth11

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Well, I installed a brand new HP 2600n laserjet on my G5 iMac running 10.3.7 about a month ago - all was good, it printed through the network ethernet router using a DHCP address, it was cool.

I've just upgraded to tiger and despite everything else being just lovely, here's what it's done to my printer:

I can still see the printer as my default printer.

If I print, it attempts to print it then just trips out and offers a "jobs stopped" message.

I hit restart jobs and retry - it thinks about it and then gives the same "jobs stopped" message.

hmmmm...

I don't know much about bonjour printing, in fact that's a lie, I know nothing, but having skimmed through the forums, I thought I might add the same printer as a bonjour printer and see if using the new protocol might kick it into action - no change - I specified the HP series 6 gimp print driver when asked, something else I picked up from the forum.

Weird fact 1 - the printer utility allows me to print a test page no problem, it's just applications that fail to get anything past it.

Weird fact 2 - I can't reinstall the original HP driver - it just offers me the upgrade option and then says problem with installation try again - which when I do offers the same error message.

To be honest, I'm flummoxed. What hurts most is that the PC in the corner is now used to grab the things I want to print from the network and makes no fuss about it - surely Tiger must be better than this?!

Any clues?

cheers

Paul B
toosmooth11
 
yes, tried that a couple of times - no avail I'm afraid.

there seem to be quite a few tiger printing issues kicking around don't there?

thanks for the post

PB
 
It's fixed!!

I again uninstalled the printer from the list and also went to the printers folder in the system library - in the HP folder was a sub folder for this machine (must be the relic of the printer installation I did when I was on 10.3) - I ditched the entire 2600 series folder into the trash.

I then did a printer software re-install - AND this time I did it from the original CD not from a downloaded disk image from HP's site.

I got beyond the previously encountered error message, the printer said it installed ok.

Back to the list of printers and added new printer - this time it found a driver that wasn't from the Tiger HP set, which was named the same as the printer - I selected this and finally it works on all programmes - it shouldn't be like this should it?

In summary - dump previous machine specific folder from the HP section of the printers folder in the system library

Reinstall from OE CD not downloaded .dmg

Select new printer and correct driver.

PB
 
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