Can't Print after 10.5.8 update - HP 6310 + G5

Hi there,

There has been another postee getting the same message as you when connecting to a share. Have a look at this article.

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2112054&tstart=15

Before I responded to him I checked that I was still able to connect to a USB share, and I found that the 10.5.8 did not stop my share from working. The only thing was that both of my Mac's were at 10.5.8 - don't know if that could have anything to do with it?

FTR - I don't think the driver would stop the share from appearing. Given that you cannot see the advertised printer in the default browser view, it is like the Bonjour service has stopped from the sharing machine. If you open Safari and select Bonjour within your bookmarks, is the printer shown in this view?

Pahu

Hi

I still have similar problems (posted in the thread above, which also contains my attempts to solve them). Both my machines run 10.5.8. I still can't figure out what's wrong.

Hi,

I have the same issue, any application collapse when trying to print a document.
Sympthoms are: In Safari, Pages, Preview, anything, by going to File -> Print
the result is the application hang automatically launch the crash report, to send back to apple.

I first tried 2 days ago with the Software Update containing the HP Printing Drivers Update and anything happen.
My second attemp was the security update of this morning and anything happen.
Finally I followed the pragmatic approach of removing my HP PSC 1510 All in one printer from the System Preferences -> Print & Fax and then to add it again. It automatically selects the version 5 of the printing driver and after that single delete / add operation looks like I can print again from all applications.

I am really not sure if this will work with other printers, or in a shared environment, the funny thing was, that I could not print from my MacPro Server but I could print through my MacBook Pro laptop sharing the printing attached to the server. Terrible slow but it could print.

I hope this tip can help somebody.
Regards,

H

Great tip! Thanks! Worked for my Canon ip4500 printer by deleting & replacing driver on my secondary iMac which uses printer cabled to my main iMac. The printer worked no problem before and after my OSX update from my main iMac. The secondary iMac seem to recognize my main iMac but the file printing just hangs.

I do not know whether this will help or not. I was also having difficulty, but had more variables in the mix, such as a new wireless router, etc.

What might have helped was turning everything off, restarting everything after running disk repair permissions. Seemed that "old" stuff might lay around in the system, that was causing difficulty, or and also choosing "default" for the printer when trying to add.

I am running an old 6MP HP printer — off an Appletalk network, so support is really tough. Keep thinking I am going to have to retire the whole subsystem, but after a few hours of futzing with stuff, finally got it working again. 🙂