Leopard printing issues

[iHusky]

I have a lexmark 1300 printer, and it was working fine before i got leopard. Now, whenever I try to print, it closes whatever app i was trying to print from. ie - printing a mail attachment, it closes mail, and pops up the 'mail quit unexpectedly' error message.

I've already downloaded the drivers again, so that shouldn't be it, but i don't know what else it could be.

Help please!

 

[snickelfritz]

Have you tried the CUPS drivers that are included with Leopard?

 

[iHusky]

im not sure what those are, could you explain?

 

[haiggy]

I have a lexmark 1300 printer, and it was working fine before i got leopard. Now, whenever I try to print, it closes whatever app i was trying to print from. ie - printing a mail attachment, it closes mail, and pops up the 'mail quit unexpectedly' error message.

I've already downloaded the drivers again, so that shouldn't be it, but i don't know what else it could be.

Help please!

Dude,
I have the exact same problem on a Lexmark 1400 Series....
Sigh, it's getting quite annoying. It will sometimes work if you open the print manager and drag the file into the list, but that's a pain and can't be used for everything.
I'm gonna guess it's an incompatibility with Lexmark's drivers... maybe they'll release new ones?

Sidenote: I had to download the driver again even though I installed Leopards built-in drivers. It wouldn't recognize my printer or print. When I was installing the one that I had on Tiger onto my Leopard install, it said "You are installing an older version of software" so I just went ahead and did it since nothing else was working. It recognized my printer but quits every application..

 

[AlBDamned]

I'm not sure about the Lexmark drivers, but have you tried using the "Generic PPD"?

 

[haiggy]

I'm not sure about the Lexmark drivers, but have you tried using the "Generic PPD"?

Is that a driver?

 

[AlBDamned]

Is that a driver?

Yeah. Might work by going into print & fax preferences and clearing stuff, then re-adding but using the generic ppd as your driver. Might work (might not, of course...).

 

[haiggy]

I just went to Lexmark's online support chat and they said that they are working on Leopard compatible drivers and they will be released shortly.

 

[Mac4Decade]

CUPS drivers? Could you explain that? I'm having the same problem (unexpected quits in Safari, Word, etc.) over here on a G5 iMac with 10.5.1. Printing with the Lexmark 1300 worked fine before Leopard...

...Oddly enough, I can print over a network from a totally wireless laptop.