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Printer features disabled under Mac OS X 10.6 for HP ColorLaserJet 2600n

Printer features disabled under Mac OS X 10.6 for HP ColorLaserJet 2600n

After upgrading to 10.6 my printer became unavailable to print to. It behaved as if the driver crashed (when I chose to add the printer over Bonjour) and was removed by the OS. Reinstalling the drivers from HP actually worked out pretty well, but as you can see, four sets of options are now disabled for me:

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Guest [Entry]

"The Driver Update 2.4.1 released on June 30th 2010 did fix this, though they moved the options around under ""printer features"" and may have removed duplex (my printer doesn't feature duplex, so maybe that's added detection). The driver version is now 1.3.0.261.

I also hear that either 10.6.6 or Lion is going with downloading drivers on demand to remove the 100s of megabytes used just for storing drivers to devices you don't have."
Guest [Entry]

"I had a similar problem with a Canon printer. I had to Get Info on the application (Preview in my case) and check Open in 32-bit mode.

Some applications don't seem to need this adjustment (32-bit only I assume) and others I noticed don't offer the option."
Guest [Entry]

"The Driver Update 2.4.1 released on June 30th 2010 did fix this, though they moved the options around under ""printer features"" and may have removed duplex (my printer doesn't feature duplex, so maybe that's added detection). The driver version is now 1.3.0.261.

I also hear that either 10.6.6 or Lion is going with downloading drivers on demand to remove the 100s of megabytes used just for storing drivers to devices you don't have."