Tip of the day: Reset Leopard's Printing System

Printer sharing not working on Leopard? Try resetting the print system; right-click the printer list in the Print & Fax pane of System Preferences. This will wipe out your configured printers and let you start over.

Here's the contextual menu. You can get a shortcut to the reset button by option-clicking the 'minus' button.

Here's what the dialog box looks like. Note that it will, in fact, delete all your existing printer queues and jobs, so don't use this nuclear option unless you're having ongoing problems with printer usage or sharing.

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