HP LaserPrint 6P and Leopard

[taijuan]

I'm trying to connect an HP LaserPrint 6P to a new Mini with Leopard. It's connected with a Parallel to USB cable.

There are drivers already on the computer (both Postscript and Gutenprint), but both of them fail. Originally the PS driver just printed a bunch of blank pages, while the Gutenprint driver said the device wasn't connected after sending about 16% of the content. Now, after restarting, both drivers say it's waiting for device. Any idea?

Thanks.

 

[pilotError]

I have an HP 4P, but I had a similar issue. I ended up rebooting and powering off/on the printer since my first few attempts ended up corrupting the printers buffer with crap.

After that it mine has worked pretty well.

 

[Str8edgepunker]

I too own a 6P and I would recommend getting an HP 300x ethernet print server and hook it up to a router. It's nice and inexpensive on ebay and when configured, my 6P works great with it. Only problem is that you need to change your user agent in your browser to a windows computer because it won't let you open the configuration page.

That's all I can recommend as that's the only thing that works for me. Hope that helps.

 

[taijuan]

After wasting an awful lot of paper, the restarting thing seemed to work and it seems to be working fine now. Thanks for the help.