Adding a printer on Leopard

(When I had Tiger, this worked so easily. This makes me want to cry.)
I'm on a wireless network with a bunch of windows PCs. Two of them have printers attached. I only want to use one printer (HP Laserjet 1320) on one of the computers, so I tried to add it. I find the printer on the list, find the driver, click add, and I get an error message.
"An error occurred while trying to add the selected printer.
client-error-not-authorized"
I tried changing to a generic driver, I tried the other two printers, I tried changing the queue name, I tried logging in under a different user name, and I tried having my uncle mess around with the stuff on the PC I was connecting to. Nothing changed.
I can connect to the PCs over the network to transfer files and stuff, and I used to be able to connect to the printer when I had Tiger. Nothing has changed on the network or the PC since I switched to Leopard.
Can someone help me with this, or do I have to go to the Apple store?

Look at this thread
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1197845&tstart=0

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For those interested, I have written an overview of printing in Leopard 10.5.0 to Windows print servers (published queues Active Directory). Your mileage may vary. This document contains the good the bad and the ugly.
Objective:
Get Leopard based Macs to print to AD published SMB print queues hosted on Windows 2003 print servers. Sounds easy, huh?
Overview:
Print Servers:
Windows 2003 print servers.
Printers:
All the printers in my test were all new HP network b/w printers or network MFP b/w printers. All of them were less than 2 years old. None of them were consumer-grade home USB printers.
Mac Clients:
My test clients were Intel MacBook Pros and Intel iMacs running 10.5.0 Leopard. All of them had user AD accounts and all Macs were bound to AD using Directory Utility (or dsconfigad)
The AD clients have a unique naming convention at my company. In my environment we use the initials of the person for their login name (SAM). Example:
Real “human” Name: “Stephen Paul Jobs”
Long Active Directory Name: “Steve Jobs”
Short Active Directory Name: “spj”
“Legacy” NT Names: “domain\spj”
Full domain name (used for email etc): “[email protected]”
(you get the idea...)
Note: My Mac clients are not in an Open Directory domain. No “Magic Triangle” in this environment. Pure AD for the sake of this example. I am not managing the Mac clients via MCX in this scenario.
Print Protocols:
All the print queues hosted on the print servers were standard SMB/CIFS print queues. The syntax (UNC) looks like this:
smb://print_server.domain/queue
(This syntax is invisible to most users printing to AD-published printers (or any network based printer really) . Most users will have no idea what protocols are being used.)
Procedures:
Part 1: Set up a new printer from an existing AD-published print queue:
From the Apple menu select “System Preferences...” (or launch it from /Applications). The Printer Setup Utility app no longer exists. Apple has discontinued it fro various reasons.
Click on the Printer & Fax pane.
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Select the desired AD-published print queue you want to print to by highlighting it in the browser list and clicking the “Add” button. (Note: Print queues published via Active Directory will show up as “Open Directory” printers, even though this is not 100% technically correct.)
Before the queue will be added, you will be prompted to authenticate as a local administrator. If you are not an admin you are screwed. Enter your name and password.
Once the print queue is added, it will show up on your Mac in several ways (barring any bugs – see below). Here are the ways to tell if you have added the print queue successfully:
A The new print queue will now be displayed in the Print & Fax system pref pane (but not always – see below).
B You will see a printer proxy application in ~/Library/Printers/ which corresponds to your new print queue. This is the print monitor app that will show up in your Dock when you print to the queue.
C You can see the new print queue via the CUPS admin page at http://localhost:631/printers.
D You can see your new print queue from the Terminal by typing this command: “lpstat –v” (type “man lpstat” for more info on the lpstat and related commands)
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(of course, most end users will only use option A listed above. The other options are more abstract and complicated)
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Part 2: Printing to an AD-published print queue:
Open a document you want to print.
Choose “Page Setup...” from the File menu if you need to configure the job. (Optional)
Choose “Print” from the File menu.
From the Print dialog box, choose the desired print queue from the Printer menu
Click the Print button.
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Volia! Done. Easy huh? Not really. Read on for the ugly stuff.
My Complaints and Caveats:
OK, so here’s where I vent, complain and scratch my head. Join in on the fun.
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A user named “Joe Is Cool” (short name “JIC”) prints a job to the print server. The print auth dialog box challenges him for a name and password. It is pre-populated already with the name of “Cool, Joe”. When a valid AD password is entered, the job is rejected (it fails authentication and gets put on hold – which is hard to see this unless you explicitly look at the Printer.app proxy tool in the Dock). However, if the user replaces “Cool, Joe” with his official AD short name of “JIC” and then enters his AD password, the print job is accepted and printed. I wish Apple didn’t try and pre-populate the dialog box! Can this be avoided or prevented?
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Conclusion
Please chime in on your experiences, bugs, opinions and comments.
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11/12/14 12:42:38.033 PM sandboxd[246]: ([3295]) Pages(3295) deny file-read-data /Users/Mom/Downloads/Quiz%20#2.docx
11/12/14 12:42:39.712 PM sandboxd[246]: ([3295]) Pages(3295) deny file-read-data /Users/Mom/Downloads/12%20angry%20men.docx
11/12/14 12:42:39.000 PM kernel[0]: Sandbox: Pages(3295) deny file-read-data /Users/Mom/Downloads/Quiz%20#2.docx
11/12/14 12:42:39.748 PM sandboxd[246]: ([3295]) Pages(3295) deny file-read-data /Users/Mom/Downloads/12%20angry%20men.docx
11/12/14 12:42:39.850 PM sandboxd[246]: ([3295]) Pages(3295) deny file-read-data /Users/Mom/Downloads/12%20angry%20men.docx
11/12/14 12:42:39.874 PM sandboxd[246]: ([3295]) Pages(3295) deny file-read-data /Users/Mom/Downloads/Quiz%20#2.docx
11/12/14 12:42:39.945 PM sandboxd[246]: ([3295]) Pages(3295) deny file-read-data /Users/Mom/Downloads/Quiz%20#2.docx
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11/12/14 12:42:48.968 PM WindowServer[132]: WSGetSurfaceInWindow : Invalid surface 702894100 for window 1378
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I tried that and it says the address is valid. I go to print and it can't connect, just sits there saying it's trying to connect.
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To clarify the setup:
Printer plugged into ethernet on back of Airport. Airport connected to internet by ethernet. Another printer connected to Airport via USB Bonjour.
The Bonjour printer works fine. Internet works fine. It's just this ethernet printer that is not recognized.
I tried adding it as an IPP printer, with same results. I turned on TCP/IP on the printer and set its IP address. Then went and added it as IPP with the IP address I just assigned. The address was recognized as valid, it added the printer as Generic PostScript Printer, then I tried to print and it couldn't find it, same as before.
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Epson Stylus r360 issues printing in Leopard via Airport Extreme & Bonjour

I hope I am not duplicating any posts, have searched but have not found a similar problem.
I have an Epson Stylus Photo R360 printer connected to my Airport extreme via USB sharing the resource around the house via Bonjour to all my Mac's.
Problem is it works fine under Tiger but the 2 Mac's that have been upgraded to Leopard 10.5 no longer print. It discovers the printer and loads in the printer configuration window ok, drivers are found and the printer looks good to go.
However, when you try and print, after about a minute an error appears on the printer in Leopard with an exclamation mark and is unable to continue.
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I am trying to add a network printer on a Solaris (Sun OS 5.6) system. I am doing this using lpadmin as outlined in volume 2 of the system admin guide.
The printer appears on the system, but when I try sending a print job, I get the message 'Segmentation error - core dumped' and nothing prints on the printer.
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You used the command:
lpadmin -p printername -v /dev/null -m netstandard -o dest=printerhostname -I contentype -T printertype
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This is perhaps not the first printer or first attempt at adding a printer on this host.
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I got an HP deskjet 3054 printer as part of Apple's program and I set it all up, but I cannot add it.
I go into print and scan within system preferences, press add a printer, click on my printer, and we're all good. But then a pop up comes up saying Apple must look for a software update for the printer to be used. It looks for an update, finds it, downloads it, then installs it, and an error comes up saying my software is not available at the time.
I've tried installing the software from HP (for OSX Lion) multiple times and from Apple too. But every time the same process happens that I have described before. I add the printer via USB. My friend has the same macbook pro and can add the printer fine so I know it's the computers fault.
If anyone can help me that'd be totally awesome. Thanks

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I finished installation of the drivers. As you can see.
I follow the instructions and try to add the printer
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And installs again?

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