Fix for Lion breaking Dell printer driver?

I think Mac OS X support is a very vague statement. The driver for Mac OS X posted in Dell's site is almost 1 1/2 year old, so it's unlikely it is supported in Lion. I would definitely exchange it for something else while you can do that. Probably something from a manufacturer which provides better Mac OS compatibility.

Did you try adding the printer with the Generic PostScript PPD? That might offer limited printing abilities, but you won't have the Dell features.

Hope this helps.

Since you installed the driver that shipped with the printer, you should go to Dell's web site and download the latest driver. Often the drivers on the included disks are a bit outdated. Of course, if rusot is correct and the latest driver available for that printer is over a year old, it may not help. In that case, you'll have to wait for Dell to update the driver.

Note that Lion didn't change anything that should break all print drivers, unlike Snow Leopard, which required ALL print drivers to be updated. At this point, if a printer doesn't work, it's probably the manufacturer's fault, not Lion's fault.

Guys and gals, all is well again. Had a similar issue with a Dell 2330d which printed in 10.6 and didn't in 10.7. My fix: during the add printer phase, first selected the Dell 2330d as a Bonjour printer, then "Other" as the preferred driver, navigated to ~Library/Printers/PPDs/Contents/Resources and searched/looked for the corresponding Lexmark driver (E260d, in my case). A little delay as the .gz file was unpacked and permissions were repaired, and I have a fully functioning printer, all features enabled. Note this Library is the root-level folder, not the now-invisible user-level folder. A bit tedious, perhaps, but it works!

I've had a similar problem and found something that fixed it for me. I removed the printer because I was having some issues and then it refused to work but after a day I've managed to get it back again so here's what I did.

1 - Download the driver from the Dell website

http://www.dell.com/support/drivers/uk/en/ukdhs1/DriversHome/?c=uk&l=en&s=dhs&cs =ukdhs1

2 - Run the installer and uninstall the drivers.

3 - Run the install and re-install the drivers

4 - Restart your Mac (I hate restarting but I blame Dell...usually it works fine for everything for weeks!)

5 - I uninstalled and reinstalled the drivers again at this point (no real reason so try without!)

6 - Turn on the printer and then add it in System Tools > Print and Scan

7 - Mine added fine and found the drivers.

Hope that helps. I couldn't find anything very useful online...especially one incredibly helpful person on another forum who posted for help then put 'it's ok I've sorted it' without explanation!

Mark

Tried this: http://guigo.us/mac/splix/ or http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/MacOSX.php ?