10.6: Reset the Printing System

Jan 19, '11 07:30:00AM

Contributed by: Anonymous

Snow Leopard only hintI encountered a problem recently where Word would not save, and Photoshop and other applications would not launch after an upgrade to 10.6 from 10.4.

Essentially what I needed to do was reset the printing system. While this was easily achieved in 10.5/10.4 it's not so easy in 10.6 especially when CUPS would not launch.

There was no access to the Print & Fax prefpanel or to the local webpage at http://127.0.0.1:631 so after a bit of hunting I found the following fix.

To reset the print system without using the Print & Fax system preferences, you can follow these steps in the Terminal. This can be done either locally or by logging in remotely via an SSH session.

That should resolve the issue; it did for me when I tried it.

[crarko adds: I did the steps, and it appears to do what it says. I didn't have the original problem so I don't know if this really fixes it.]

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