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HP printer driver update broke my printers!

The printer driver that apple rolled out in the last week has broken every printer in our office from printing. How the **** can this happen? I tell you how, some little jerk isn't doing their job. I now have 11 printers down that will not print, all Photosmart 7850's. We didn't need a lion driver update why was it pushed to 10.6 users? You can't go download a driver from HP because they say OS X already has one, we do it doesn't work. Thanks apple my company is having a meeting Monday about switching back to the PC platform after years of getting them off the PC crack.

Posted on Aug 10, 2011 5:34 PM

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Aug 16, 2012 10:17 AM in response to Yiswitched

I'm still looking for a practical solution. I received an automatic download through the App Store for drivers for the HP 2055 and HP 2035 printers. While I can print from Word using the icon in the menu bar, the program crashes when I try to print from the Print menu. I cannot print at all from Mail, Safari or other programs that go to the print menu. Also, I cannot print to PDF without crashing the system. I've tried uninstalling all HP printers, doing a cold reboot and then install the HP printers without any success. I upgraded to 10.8 and prior to the HP update, everything was working well. I realize that this is a HP problem, but Apple is somewhat complicit since it made the update available through its App Store. Advice? (Please, no complaints - just solutions). The solution offered by BasNL is in the right spirit - I need one for the 2035/2055.

Aug 16, 2012 11:50 AM in response to IWE

Just an added action: I went to the Apple downloads site and re-downloaded and re-installed the latest HP drivers. The result has not changed. The application from which I am printing simply crashes. Fortunately, my office also has a Toshiba printer, otherwise I would be out of luck entirely. Help!

Aug 17, 2012 9:33 PM in response to baltwo

You concluded they have no "viable bootable backup/clone or a tested Time Machine backup" before they installed "stuff" (who knew? stuff is now a technical term 😮 ) how? I would love to know where you purchased your mind reading software, it must be quite nifty! Thanks for contributing so Much to the conversation on a thread that's a year old, I'm confident we all appreciate your efforts. By all means wish the Three Billy Goats Gruff our best 😉


After some serious tenacity calling apple I did finally have a conversation with an engineer in which I sent several logs to her from the machines this original update caused the bug with. This triggered a change in HT3669 to resolve the issue for the 7580x series by removing it from HT3669 until HP found a solution. HP was very good at responding quickly to the issue, it was eairly this year by the time I spoke with this very nice and helpful engineer. A new update was pushed in early Q1 of 2012 for the 7580x series that worked as it should have upon release for us and our clients who were experiencing this issue. It effected a wide array of apple users in our area because the 7580x series was a one of the free printer offerings included with a new Macintosh purchase from the apple store and the apple store online.


As far as the new driver we too leaned our lesson and didn't deploy it. The Lion driver functions properly on the two machines we've upgraded to Mountain Lion just as the Snow leopard driver originally did on Lion when it was released.

Aug 22, 2012 7:44 PM in response to Yiswitched

Same thing for me. Loads of Mac's in my office can't print because that update has a corrupt file hpPostScriptPDE.plugin


If you go to Hacintosh HD>Library>Printers>HP>PDEs> and kill the file hpPostScriptPDE.plugin You will be able to print again.


Apple keep issuing HP printer driver updates and each time I have to go back and kill that file. Wish they would test things before they roll them out.

Aug 23, 2012 1:32 PM in response to Yiswitched

I had this question, too. I called Apple and spent an hour with a rep trying to fix it. He suggested deleting the printer and then re-installing it. It was impossible to reintstall the printer. I could ping it, so it was physically connected for sure. It would not show up in the printer list. I gave up for the day but called a day or so later, got another rep, tried the same steps, no luck. The rep escalated the problem to a senior advisor, who also tried, then gave up and told me to call HP. Next day I tried on my own again and succeeded. The error made by the Apple reps was in not selecting the right type of printer to be displayed. You cannot just go with the LPD default option. In this case I just had to specify the HP printer that showed in the alternatives. I called HP anyway, and the rep said that they had received a number of calls about this problem. He asked for permission to access my Mac remotely, logged in, did several deletions and downloads, and solved the problem. Very knowledgeable guy, very pleasant and helpful. My advice, call HP business subunit 1 800 334 5144 . I was very disappointed in the response of the Apple reps -- previously they have been excellent. Interestingly, this occasion was the first time that a conference with an Apple rep was not followed by a request for an evaluation of the session. Guess why. I have also talked to senior reps at Apple who were wizards, also logging in remotely to resolve a difficult problem. Good luck!

HP printer driver update broke my printers!

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