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thatcrazycajunLeopard on my Mac mini, Day 10: The HP LaserJet 1012 (since replaced by the even-cheaper 1020, but the smallest, lowest-priced monochrome laser printer on the market when I first bought it three years or so back) and the Konica Minolta Magicolor 2400W I bought a couple years later to do my color graphics work had both stopped working for some reason after installing Mac OS X Leopard. Printer Setup Utility, the app used in OS X since its inception to, well, set up printers for Macs and fix problems with same, was crashing on launch repeatedly, and Printer Setup Repair, my third-party app for fixing problems with PSU, didn't work either (FixAMac Software says a Leopard update is coming Real Soon Now, but isn't ready yet).
Finally did what I should have done days ago and Googled the problem on the many, many Mac user forum websites out there, and found out that in Leopard, Apple has rendered PSU obsolete and instead integrated its functionality into the Print & Fax pane of the System Preferences control panel. A right-click on the printers in queue allows you to reset the printers (warning: this deletes any and all jobs in each printer's queue, so be careful). A couple driver updates later, voila! Both printers worked again, even the KM which had to have GutenPrint drivers cobbled together for it to work on a Mac (silly me bought the thing second-hand off a craigslist user without checking to see that had I gone just one model up the line, Mac compatibility was built into the 2430DL; KM has since gotten a clue and made their entire color-laser line fully able to play nice with Mac, Windows and Linux boxen).
Hope this helps anyone else who finds their printer(s) suddenly being ignored by their shiny new Leopard-upgraded Macs.
Finally did what I should have done days ago and Googled the problem on the many, many Mac user forum websites out there, and found out that in Leopard, Apple has rendered PSU obsolete and instead integrated its functionality into the Print & Fax pane of the System Preferences control panel. A right-click on the printers in queue allows you to reset the printers (warning: this deletes any and all jobs in each printer's queue, so be careful). A couple driver updates later, voila! Both printers worked again, even the KM which had to have GutenPrint drivers cobbled together for it to work on a Mac (silly me bought the thing second-hand off a craigslist user without checking to see that had I gone just one model up the line, Mac compatibility was built into the 2430DL; KM has since gotten a clue and made their entire color-laser line fully able to play nice with Mac, Windows and Linux boxen).
Hope this helps anyone else who finds their printer(s) suddenly being ignored by their shiny new Leopard-upgraded Macs.
