Always a problem getting printers to co-operate.

Advice given me once. and never forgotten, is that with the problem outline where the printer may not be recognised, go to Preference > Print + Fax.

Select the recalcitrant printer and click " - " to remove it. Then click " + " and let Snow Leopard find it again.

Maybe turn the printer off after the "-" and on before the "+". 

This has worked with my Epson Stylus Photo TX710W when deciding which to use - ethernet through a Time Capsule, USB direct, combinations thereof, etc.

I now have iMac > direct to Printer via USB 2.0.

Could never figure out how to get the "W" for wireless to work. Perhaps because I did not follow my previous advice and let the System do its best.

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On 09/04/2011, at 10:34 AM, Erik Richard Sørensen wrote:

> Bob Stern wrote:
>> THDW wrote:
>>> My Phaser 8560 has come back from the people at Xerox and it works on the usb connection.
>>> 
>>> But when I try to get the installed Xerox software to work for ethernet printing, the system preference pane for printing tells me it is looking for elements to install and that is it. It never installs anything.
>> I have a Xerox 6300 which is a laser printer, not a wax ink printer like yours, but I expect the print drivers are the same.  You don't need to install any software.  The necessary print drivers are built into OS X (unless you elected to do a custom install of OS X without the print drivers).
>> In System Prefs > Print & Fax, after you click the + button to add a printer, is your printer listed in the Add Printer window?  It should automatically select the driver for your printer model in the Print Using popup.
> 
> That would be my suggestion too, but you came first.:-) - But, maybe the drivers need to be updated further than what the Software Update can do.
> 
> Here's the link to the latest Xerox drivers for 10.6.x. Run the installer. It will only install updates for drivers already installed in the system.
> http://support.apple.com/kb/DL912
> 
> Cheers, Erik Richard
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