HP Photosmart 7550 printer with Leopard

Thank you for the suggestion. I've contacted HP and asked for help. They told me that I have an "OLD" printer.

"Hello JEAN E,

Thank you for contacting HP Total Care.

There are no drivers available for this printer for use on intel macintosh computers. The only suggestion that I have for you is listed below.

HP officially does not support printing from Intel Macs with the following older printer models:

HP Photosmart 100, 130 and 230 series printers

HP Photosmart P1000, 1115, 1215, 1218, and 1315 series printers

HP Photosmart 7150, 7350, and 7550 series printers

HP Officejet 5100, 7100, G, and D series all-in-ones

HP PSC 700 and 900 series products"

Of course I stated that I had both a PPC and Intel computers that were behaving in the same manner.

So as far as I can see I am out of luck unless apple can update the PPD's (which is what I think is wrong).

I can print, but the output is garbled.

Thank you for your help HP Mac Architect.

Print Driver from System Preferences-> Print & Fax shows HP PhotoSmart 7550 - CUPS+GutenPrint 5.1.3 . There is another version called HP PhotoSmart 7550 - GutenPrint 5.1.3 .

The same "drivers" show up under http://localhost:631 which tells me that my system is only finding the CUPS driver (I think its a PPD or Postscript Printer Definition file that works with 1 driver for all printer types).

I downloaded the HP drivers on 11/2/2007 - that file is called gutenprint05.1.3.U.dmg (Jun 19 2007). I ran Install Gutenprint 5.1.3.mkpg found on the disk image. This installed the HP PhotoSmart 7550 - CUPS + GutenPrint 5.1.3 drivers.

I also have an HP Printer Selector program from 11/2/2007. If I click the "select" button on this program, it brings me to a screen called HP Printer Utility. At the bottom of the screen it appears to specify a non-cups driver: PhotoSmart/AiO connectivity: photosmart 7550, SN:CNxxxxxx. I can print a test and a diagnostic page from this utility window. The printing is absolutely perfect from this window.

So to me it appears that there is an old photosmart driver seen from the HP Printer Selector program and there are CUPS drivers. yet System Prefs can't find this driver. Or am I wrong.....

Thanks again for trying to help

I gave in and tried the archive and update on my macbook. I get the same results.

WHAT A SURPRISE.

I purchased an Airport Extreme earlier (September). I wanted faster inside my network transfers (hard-wired). I never connected my printer to the AExtreme, but since I'm having so many problems doing the USB printing (garbled printing) I decided to connect the printer to it and see how printing works.

I works much better. In fact it looks perfect!!!!!
(On my PPC iMac)
I Cleared the queue and removed the printer. Then I added the printer, it showed up as Bonjour instead of USB. I it found the Gutenberg 5.1.3 for my Photosmart 7550 printer, but also a photosmart driver I didn 't recognize (maybe the old HP non-cups driver from Tiger) Using the non-cups driver, printing is working extremely well. I don't know why it shows up under Bonjour and not under USB (Maybe this is a problem??)

Anyway, I'm flabbergasted, but happy.


Just though I should shared the info. Now I'll try my intel MacBook!

Ok. No joy on the Intel side of the house. All that the print and fax setup found was the GutenPrint 5.1.3 drivers. I believe that the drivers that work on the iMac were on for PPC. So no joy.

Oh well. One computer up and printing. The other still not working.

Still, happier than I was. Just wish the GutenPrint drivers worked. (Its almost like the end of line chars are not working and each line is written on top of the previous. So one page of printing is at the top of the page. Nothing after the first line or two.

Ok. More happiness.

My macbook is now printing. I removed printers on it. Did a reinstall of the HP software. It found a non-cups driver. I selected that driver, and all is working just dandy.

Hallelujah!

(In essence the USB connected printing does not work. When printer is connected to AIrport Extreme and computer is "Bonjuor" instead of USB, I can print using the non-cups drivers. The cups Guten-print drivers do not work for Photosmart 7550 printer.

I'm a happy woman today. I don't have to move back to Tiger on my desktop (where I do most of my work! Macbook is for fun on the road.)

Done.

USB doesn't work. Airport Extreme printing works