Wireless printing works with 10.5.1 but not with 10.5.8 - help?

TIA
In 10.5.1 adding my HP printer and printing wirelessly to it was no problem. I upgraded with the Combo 10.5.8, used the printer set up procedure and my printer does not show up in the printer window.
I now wireless print to my HP printer by booting up in 10.4.11. I.O.W., it is not my HP printer.
I have searched the net for similar problems and did not find any. I have downloaded and installed, again, the HP drivers.
In 10.5.8, I can see and select the Adobe PDF printer and, in the printer setup window, I can select my HP printer driver (I.O.W., the driver is installed). The Adobe PDF printer works.
Leonard

nycL45 wrote:
the cat 5 cable is plugged into the printer's ethernet port with the other end plugged into the ethernet port of the ISP's wireless router. Two computers are hardwired from this router. This laptop uses the wireless.
Hi Leonard,
Your printer is indeed connected via Ethernet and your wireless router provides the wireless capabilities to your MacBook Pro. (That is, your printer is NOT a wireless printer.) This is exactly how my network is setup as I stated in my post on February 26.
Here what I suggest...
Print a test page from the HP 4MV printer as follows:
(a) Press the On Line button so the light goes out
(b) Press the Menu button until the display shows TEST MENU
(c) Pres the Item button until the display shows SELF TEST
(d) Press the Enter button. The display will show 06 PRINTING TEST and after 30 seconds, the test page prints
The test page will show a boxed section. The third column is TCP/IP information and should show the printer's IP Address (ex. 192.168.1.xxx), subnet mask (255.255.255.0), and gateway (ex. 192.168.1.1). The gateway should be that of your router and the first three sets of numbers of the printer's IP address are the same as the router.
Now, put the printer back On Line.
Add printer using IP with the LPD protocol (This is for Leopard but should be similar with Snow Leopard)
Launch System Preferences and click on Print & Fax
Click the plus ( + ) symbol
Click IP
Protocol: select Line Printer Daemon – LPD (click for a pop-down list of options)
Address: type in the IP address shown on the printer self test page
Queue: you can leave it blank
Now, the system will look for the IP and find a corresponding match PPD
If everything is correct, click the Add button.
(In my case, "Name" automatically fills with the IP address that I input for address and "Printing Using" auto finds a PPD for my printer. I also have an additional setup for my HP 4MV using a third-party PPD and in that case, I manually "Select a driver to use” by clicking on whatever the system automatically selected.)
BTW: You may want to take a look at what print guru, Greg Sahli says in another thread at
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2117938&tstart=0
Hope this helps.
~L

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