Brother HL-2070N- Print button won't be clicked!

I've just installed the printer driver

Which one? The one on the disc which ships with the printer or the one on Brother's site?

for a Brother
HL2070N and I've got a problem. Whenever I try to
print a PDF in Preview or a document in Word, the
printer is selected in the Print menu, but clicking
the print button does nothing, it can't be clicked.

I just attempted to print PDFs from Adobe Reader and Preview, JPGs from Preview, and .doc, .rtf, and .txt files from Word 2004. No probs. Which versions of the apps are you using?

The printer is active in the Printer Setup Utility,
but the printing menu in any application will not let
me print, as the Print button is 'jammed' or just
doesn't do anything.

One note- in Word, if I click the print toolbar
button, the document prints fine.

this means that the driver seems to be working.

But this will
obviously become a problem in other Apps which need
to print via Print menu access, not a shortcut.

Have you tried deleting the driver and reinstalling?

Please help!

Do you have any other printers? Are they showing the same problems?

Have you created a new user and logged in as the new user and tried to print?

Is your normal user an admin user, a standard user, or a limited user?

Which version of the OS are you using?

Okay, the fact that the Canon works, and that the Brother works when you use the toolbar icon to print indicates that the problem is not system wide. I'd try creating a new user and seeing if the problem exists there. I'd also try uninstalling the printer using the Brother installer. (I think that you can uninstall using the 'Customize' option. I haven't actually tried it, but it can't hurt on your system) Printer Setup Repair, available from Version Tracker and MacUpdate, might be of some assistance. Or you could simply delete the Brother folder from inside /Library/Printers and the Brother printer app from inside /<user>/Library/Printers. Then I'd reinstall using the drivers from Brother's site, and following their directions exactly.

This sounds like the Xerox plugin problem that has bothered several users. It's surprising that the Canon works as expected, but users have had success deleting the contents of "/Library/Printers/PPD Plugins" - particularly the Xerox plugins.

As John mentioned, just delete all of the items in "/Library/Printers/PPD Plugins"