Every Time I Print - Makes me do it Twice

Hi All,
I'm having some printer frustration with my I-Mac. Before I pay Geek Squad, upwards for $200 to "try" and fix it, I thought I would drop a post here and hope for the Hail Mary touchdown.
My Computer:
IMAC 24"/3.06/SD (and running Snow Leopard).
My Printers: (both connected directly to I-mac)
(1) HP Photosmart
(2) HP 1012
The Error Message when I try to print the first time.
"Error: Communication Failure: The computer is no longer able to communicate with your printer. Turn the printer off, check your printer connections and check for printer errors, and, t..."
When I print immediately again - all works well. Thus, I essentially have to print twice anytime I need to perform this action. It's like there is an initial goofy disconnect at some point. Very frustrating as you can imagine.
Thanks in advance for your wisdom and assistance,
Ben
Chandler, AZ

I have an HP printer. I've seen this happen even under Leopard. You have upgraded to Snow Leopard and much of the software that HP loaded on your system when you were likely running Leopard is no longer needed, but if the HP programs are in your account's Login Items, I think they may be causing some conflict. I would consider removing any HP stuff from your Login iTems and removing all the HP programs (via Uninstall) that you no longer need. Go with either the HP drivers that are included in Snow Leopard 10.6.2 or go on HP's website and only download Snow Leopard versions of everything you want. Post back if I'm anything is not clear.
HP and Canon's printer drivers are pretty much all included in a large HP/Canon printer driver update that everyone with 10.6/10.6.1 had to download later - hope I have my releases correctly identified. I think even the first 10.6.2 updates may not include it, but now it may be included so you didn't see anything more to download. It's my understanding talking to Canon (also picked up a Canon printer a week ago), that HP and Canon supplied the drivers etc. to Apple for bundling in that large update.

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