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Yesterday my HP LaserJet 1220 began acting very bizarre. Documents that I used to print just fine now won't print at all--the solid green light comes on and that's the end. If I turn off printer, back on again and reboot Mac then I can sometimes print,sometimes not. I tried repairing permissions, running the program Printer Setup Repair, reinstalling the HP PPD's from the Panther disks etc. but nothing seems to help. As far as I can tell the printer is fine--it works fine when connected to a PC. I'm using 10.3.2. Anyone else had this sort of problem with this printer? For me, my Mac has just become totally useless--a computer that won't print to an HP LaserJet is a useless computer for me. I'm completely stumped.

[WizOSX]

An update--

I removed the Gimp-print and installed PPD's for HP printers but the problem didn't go away. So, yesterday I decided to figure out what was going on by trial and error. After about 4 hours of fooling here's what I found:

The documents that are a problem are all one-page Word docs which have a lot of tight formatting in them--graphics, Word equation editor equations and tables in addition to text. I finally found that if I put a page break somewhere about in the middle of the doc then the two seperate pages printed fine. So there's no problem in the document itself, just that Panther can't handle a single page that's too complex. Interesting to know, but the info doesn't do me any good because, of course, I want to print the docs as single pages. Since I made the orginals of the docs last fall in 10.2.8 and they printed fine, the problem lies in Panther. What to do now? I guess just reformat and reinstall 10.2 (and all my software, etc, etc).

Unless someone has any other suggestions.