Printer repairing permissions

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Printer repairing permissions

Installed gutenprint drivers, printer said something about problem during installation, wanted to make changes and repairing permissions.

Did it, nothing else happened. Printed one page, but printer refused to work afterwards, couldn't even shut down (button just burns green). Had to remove cable to force shut down. Works completely normal with Windows.

Removed drivers, installed again, this time no asks about repairing permissions, but same thing. Kicked gutenprint out.

Printer asking about repairing permissions means there was some error, but nothing serious or suspicious?

Posted on Nov 21, 2016 5:31 PM

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Answer 1

Nov 21, 2016 5:34 PM in response to Yavmagru

It's a long shot but try a reset ...

Open System Preferences > Printers & Scanners then select the Print tab.

Then right tor control click the printer on the left then click: Reset printing system

Resolve printer issues on your Mac - Apple Support

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Yavmagru Author

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Nov 21, 2016 5:37 PM in response to Carolyn Samit

Thanks for fast reply!

I'll have to put gutenprint back on after I got so tired of it.

The repairing permissions part is just system trying to fix some incompatibility issues?

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Yavmagru Author

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Nov 21, 2016 6:00 PM in response to Carolyn Samit

This thread seems somewhat close to the issue I had. (especially the snapshots posted in there)

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4320156?start=0&tstart=0

While there the problem with repairing permissions pops up over and over, I had it only once. Don't know if it is connected with anything though. I think it did complain about software for the printer installed incorrectly. I didn't take snapshot of that. Second time it said nothing.

At least, maybe, hopefully, it isn't then something serious, inherently problematic for Mac's system itself. I still have another printer that works with Mac.

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