Remove a printer on Mac. If you no longer use a printer, you can delete it from your list of available printers. Open Printers & Scanners preferences for me. Select the printer in the list, then click the Remove button. If you delete the printer that’s set as your default printer, macOS selects another printer as your. Uninstall Wacom Driver on Mac manually. As usual, the removal process of any application on Mac starts with moving the executable file to Trash. But first, close all the background processes of Wacom. For this, open Activity Monitor, find Wacom and click to quit it. Now you can go to the Applications folder and delete the Wacom Tablet folder. This is because the process of removing a printer from a Mac is not the same as uninstalling standard applications. Per request from our users, we have written this guide to explain how to delete printer drivers with a step-by-step screenshot tutorial. How to manually delete printer drivers from a Mac.
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- Update printer software on Mac. Most printers are compatible with macOS. When you add a printer, macOS automatically uses AirPrint to connect to the printer or downloads the printer’s software (also called a printer driver). If you can’t use a printer you already added, or you don’t see the options you want in the Print dialog, you can.
- Working on a site with a few hundred OS X machines, manually altering each computer's configuration can become very tedious, very fast. Especially when dealing with printers. I had issues whereby I would sometimes need to set up a number of computers with a new printer, and then remove it later.
| Click here to return to the '10.4: Use Printer Setup Utility to restart cupsd' hint |
Bear in mind that this menu choice also removes all of your existing configured printers. You'll have to re-add each one of them.
That it does. I wish I had read your comment or thought for a moment before trying the hint.
I found this interesting tidbit when looking for an updated printer driver for my LaserJet 1200:
The latest HP printer software for this device is built into Tiger for print only functionality and does not require a download or reinstallation of any HP software to print. *
In order to best take advantage of the latest HP driver and new Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger features, it is recommended that you delete original HP printer queues from Printer Setup Utility and create a new HP printer queue.
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c00364457&locale=en_US
Or, like, just type 'sudo kill -HUP cupsd' in the Terminal. ;)
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For me (under Tiger) I have to state the PID of the cups daemon instead of 'cupsd' - e.g.:
sudo kill -HUP 250
And BTW: whoever posted the original hint (along with Apple) wasn't so smart to not remark that this will delete your printer from the list - for people with complex configs and non-standard drivers this is a MAJOR pain.
rogb: it would have also been nice if you had noted this as well in your remark.
Thanks, that command did the trick for me. I had problems getting my new Epson D68 recognised as somehow my Printer Sharing in the Sharing preferences wasn't functioning.
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don't know if this works in tiger, but it does in Panther:
SystemStarter restart PrintingServices
Also, it seems that reseting the printing system in Print Utility actually revert the cupds.conf file to the oem state! This is not good as we have some lines in there to point the Mac to a specific print server. Anyone know a way to put additions into a users' hole folder? .cupsrc doesn't seem to work.
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