Constant problems with HP DeskJet 952C

This printer prints well, but somewhere along the line under OSX it became intermittent. I would try to print from Word, Safari, Photoshop Elements, or pretty much any program- and, after seeing the dialog box with "Opening printer connection," the job would stop, and I would have to power the printer off and on, or even Reset Printing System from the Printer Setup Utility.
HP just issued a new driver, 3.3, for this printer (after years of neglect), and I have installed it, but the problem persists. I tried a Gimp driver last year, and found the print quality poor.
Does anyone have any ideas on making this printer print reliably? I will never buy another HP product.
BC
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DrPantz wrote:
Since opening my new iMac and plugging in my printer, the system recognizes it as an HP 5550 series and offers me the Gutenprint 5.2.3 driver. If I manually specify the printer, it offers me either the 5550 or 5551 models (conspicuously NOT the 5552 one which I have), Both are the Gutenprint 5.2.3.
According to http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3669?viewlocale=en_US, the Gutenprint 5550 and 5551 are the only drivers included with Snow Leopard.
I've installed HP's printer utility, which runs fine: it will print Test and Diagnostic pages without problems. It's only when I try to get it to print something (anything!) from the Mac, be it text or a photo, that I get either blank sheets or just garbage.
How did you install the utility? Since HP hasn't released a Snow Leopard driver for this printer, it sounds like you might have installed an unsupported version.
I've downloaded the latest driver patch for OS X from HP, despite which I still only see the options for the 5550 and 5551 printers in the Driver List (and they're both listed as Gutenprint 5.2.3). I've even tried installing the software from the printer's bundled CD.
Using Software Update won't help since there aren't any (updated) drivers from HP, but you can see if the updated Gutenprint driver, v5.2.5 will help.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-print/files/
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