[X4U] Printing Problem

[John Baltutis]

On 03/31/05, Richard Gilmore <rgilmor at uwo.ca> wrote:
>
> My G5 iMac suddenly decided to stop printing yesterday. When I go to print
> and click it nothing happens in most apps, no error message, nothing.
> Entourage tells me there is an unknown memory problem and nothing prints.
> I've got 1 GB of RAM. But if I use a different login it will let me print
> fine from any app. It printed ok before but yesterday when I went to print
> it just wouldn't. I've repaired permissions, deleted all the printers in my
> user Library folder and reselected them with the printer setup utility, I
> also removed the Printers folder from the main Library nothing, then put
> that folder back still no difference, cleared the system cache with OnyX,
> did a Safe Boot to see if it printed then, nothing works. I'd rather not
> delete my user and create a new one if I didn't have to. I've got 40-50 GBs
> of stuff I'd have to move. The permissions repair seemed to be repairing a
> lot of stuff in the printers but nothing. Any clues?

Since you don't want to create a new user and it prints from a different
user, then prefs are hosed. Try deleting these from you user Library:
Caches/com.apple.print.xxxx.plists, relaunch the printer setup utility,
delete and add printer, and try printing again.