uninstall Gutenprint Printer Drivers

newnomad,

I have now placed the updated Gutenprint uninstaller on the Gutenprint site.

My testing indicates that the previous uninstaller which you used would not have deleted the receipt for your installation. The new uninstaller will therefore properly remove the installed files and you will no longer see them listed when you add a printer.

The Gutenprint PPDs are located in HD > Library > Printers > PPDs > Contents > Resources. If you checked this location you may not see the PPDs any longer, as I would expect that the Gutenprint uninstaller did work. But this does not remove the printers from the Print Using menu. To do this you will need to reset the printing system. This will delete your existing print queues but not the printer drivers. Note that it won't remove some of the Apple system printers from the list. They are kept in System Library and cannot easily be removed.

How to Reset the Printing System

1. Open System Preferences > Print & Fax
2. Move your mouse over the Printers list
3. Hold down the Control button and click the mouse
4. Click the "Reset printing system ..." popup
5. Restart your Mac

For Snow Leopard, the Gutenprint drivers do not install PPD files to /Library/Printers/PPDs. They are created "on the fly" when you add a printer.

I would need to see the install.log for when you ran the Gutenprint uninstaller to determine why the uninstaller did not work. You can find that log by using the Console applications (/Applications/Utiltities). Look for the content under /var/log/install.log. Please post the appropriate log section for when you ran the uninstaller.

To follow up on my previous post--

The only reason that the Gutenprint uninstaller should fail is if the receipt for the installer of Gutenprint is no longer on the computer. You can get around this by installing the latest version of Gutenprint drivers and then run the uninstaller again.

I did find the problem with the Gutenprint uninstaller and have fixed it. You can download it from my website. I'm not quite sure when or what changed that broke the installer. After I run a lot more tests, I will update the Gutenprint site with the revised uninstaller. NOTE: For anyone viewing this thread at a later time, this uninstaller will only be at the above link for a day or so. It will soon be placed on the Gutenprint site.

As to your adding a printer without having it plugged in, it depends on how you plan to connect to the printer. If you are going to connect it to your computer via USB or to an Apple Base Station, then you cannot add the printer before you plug it in.

You can see the list of supported printers that are included in the latest version of the Gutenprint release at http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/p_Supported_Printers.php.

It's probably in the 'Printers' folder in the Library folder in your Home folder.