Stop HP Commuincations from star

[M@lew]

The activity HP Communications is a needed driver for my printer but it's PowerPC and takes up quite a bit RAM (more than it needs to) so I often kill the process in Activity Monitor. But I was wondering if there was a way from stopping it starting up at all until it's needed? It doesn't appear in my Log-In items, so maybe there's way of doing it in Terminal?

 

[Shadow]

If anywhere, it'll be in the startup items folder.

 

[M@lew]

Where's that located?

 

[Cromulent]

Spotlight it .

 

[TheBrazilianGuy]

I had the same problem before and it is indeed annoying.
Our solution was to take the printer away and use
a Canon Pixma (not expensive at all). It works like a
charm !

The activity HP Communications is a needed driver for my printer but it's PowerPC and takes up quite a bit RAM (more than it needs to) so I often kill the process in Activity Monitor. But I was wondering if there was a way from stopping it starting up at all until it's needed? It doesn't appear in my Log-In items, so maybe there's way of doing it in Terminal?

 

[M@lew]

Found the start up folder, but there's no Hp Communications.

 

[McGarvels]

I believe that HP has released Universal Binary software for it's hp printers. I remember updating my software and now everything says Intel and no PowerPC under Activity Monitor. I have a HP PSC 1350. Hope this helps.

 

[M@lew]

I did a google and found UB drivers for my printer and installed them, but HP Communications kept coming up still. So I located it and dragged it to the trash. At the moment there seems to be no harm done and it no longer starts up, but I think I won't empty the trash until I'm sure I don't need it anymore.