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Print Center Repair - 3.0.3

(Jaguar) repair multiple Print Center and CUPS problems

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All Time:	(4.5)
This Version:	(4.0)
Current Version:	3.0.3
Release Date:	2004-01-12
License:	Commercial
Downloads (this version):	21,774
Downloads (all versions):	22,603
Price:	$14.95 / $9.95 upgrade

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Product Description:

Print Center Repair is designed to rectify situations where Print Center will not open, printers cannot be added, and numerous other errors. Although Print Center Repair cannot fix every printing problem, it is capable of resolving most of the common ones. Full instructions are included.

Print Center Repair allows the user to do the following:

Verify the root user
Verify and recreate the daemon user
Verify and repair Print Center file permissions
Verify and repair the /System/Library/Printers directory permissions
Reset Print Center
Verify and repair the /private/var/spool directory
Delete CUPS spool files
Verify and repair the /private/tmp directory
Verify and repair the CUPS directories
Verify the status of the cupsd process
View and modify the hostconfig file
Delete hidden temporary files
Delete Print Center preferences
Delete custom preset preferences
Delete the pre-installed drivers
Install PPD files

If you are using Mac OS X 10.3.x, you can download Printer Setup Repair 4.x (Panther Edition) from here.
If you are using Mac OS X 10.4.x, you can download Printer Setup Repair 5.x (Tiger Edition) from here.

What's new in this version:

Added Adobe Acrobat 6 support to the Reset Print Center option.
Fixed a bug that prevented the creation of the log file if the /Users/username/Library/Logs directory did not exist. The directory is now created if it is missing.
Fixed a bug that may have caused Print Center Repair to report that it was being used with the wrong OS version.
Fixed a bug with PPD installations for Classic mode that prevented the PPD file from being used.
Fixed a bug with the activity log that produced an error if a PPD file name contained high bit ASCII characters.
Fixed a bug that may have caused one of the startup checks to falsely report problems with the sudo command.
Localized file lists are now loaded only if localized files are going to be checked.
Improved the handling of files that may have been deleted with the Reset Print Center option and are reported as missing.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS X 10.3
Mac OS X 10.2
Mac OS X 10.1

Additional Requirements:

v3.0.3 - Mac OS X 10.2 to 10.2.8
v1.4.2 - Mac OS X 10.1.2 to 10.1.5

Feedback Summary:

This Version:
Overall Rating:	(4.0)	Features:	Not rated (0.0)	Support:	Not rated (0.0)
Ease of Use:	Not rated (0.0)	Quality / Stability:	Not rated (0.0)	Price:	(4.0)

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a public service - Version: 3.0.2, 11/9/2005 11:25AM PST

(1 of 1 users found this comment useful)

mbloxham

OK, in fact I used the first version of this program to repair an intractible problem with printing in os 10.1 Following the application's very clear and simple sequence of steps, I discovered the problem -- with an epson printer -- required removing a competing canon driver! No way would I have reached this solution on my own: this programmer has really done his homework. A great public service.

Must admit I was highly skeptical - Version: 3.0.3, 12/19/2004 01:48AM PST

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donlevy323-225-2228

and not just a little anxious about using this product. The print center was repeatedly , unexpectedly quitting.

I first tried deleting the printer (successfully), but it would not allow adding the printer back in (quit unexpectedly during each attempt to do so). The computer is a beige G3 233mhz running OS X 10.2.8. I tried most everything first: rebuilt permissions using Disk Utility, which found nothing and made no difference. Then Disk Warrior 2.0 (can't run version 3 on the G3, since it can't boot from the DW 3 disk), which found a very few, trivial and unrelated errors which it corrected, but still Print Center quit. Verified it wasn't something in the printer, itself, a LaserWriter 15/600 PS, by printing with no problem to it from another machine on the network.

I was dreading trying an unrated software, especially since both the developer and other users had indicated potential serious problems. I would have done an archive and re-install of the OS (I spent the better part of the afternoon futzing with this problem), but it happens that the partition the OS X is on is very small (just 3.9 GB) for reasons too long to go into here, and it wasn't feasible, without a HEAP of extra time to do some pretty fancy shoehorning that would have been far from easy or elegant.

Finally, I decided to just bite the bullet. After checking and repairing the Print Center Permissions (step 4), Eureka! Print Center not only worked again, it ran better than it had in months - the paper almost flew out - instead of the previous long delays before printing a page (which I had attributed to the small amount of free space on the disk and a pretty slow processor.

Pretty impressive. Wish I'd had the courage to use it right from the start of the problem. The instructions were clear (once I printed them from a different computer!) and the application's step-by-step approach made it a snap for someone who's never used it to proceed without difficulty or confusion. On top of which, the download is a full working version, and payment is really on the honor system that way. I shall be sending him my money, and recommending the software to clients and other techs.

Thank you!

Don Levy
MacTherapist
Los Angeles

To Durer: - Version: 3.0.3, 4/27/2004 09:38AM PST

John Goodchild

This should not be happening. Please email techsupport@fixamac.net with as much detail about the problem as possible, including the specific file being affected, so that I can investigate it and release an update if required.

Thank you.

John Goodchild
Fixamac Software