Fix for Lion breaking Dell printer driver?

I just purchased a Dell 1130n Laser Printer, which is advertised to have Mac OS X support.
Having installed the driver that came with the printer (2010 is the most recent driver version) I have the following problems;
- Printer runs but no paper is fed through.
- Blank pages are printed
- Nothing is printed
- Numerous pages of thick black lines are printed
One of these occurs every time I try to print under OS X Lion.
The printer works perfectly on the same mac booted in a Windows 7 partition.
Any suggestions to fix?

I've had a similar problem and found something that fixed it for me. I removed the printer because I was having some issues and then it refused to work but after a day I've managed to get it back again so here's what I did.
1 - Download the driver from the Dell website
http://www.dell.com/support/drivers/uk/en/ukdhs1/DriversHome/?c=uk&l=en&s=dhs&cs =ukdhs1
2 - Run the installer and uninstall the drivers.
3 - Run the install and re-install the drivers
4 - Restart your Mac (I hate restarting but I blame Dell...usually it works fine for everything for weeks!)
5 - I uninstalled and reinstalled the drivers again at this point (no real reason so try without!)
6 - Turn on the printer and then add it in System Tools > Print and Scan
7 - Mine added fine and found the drivers.
Hope that helps. I couldn't find anything very useful online...especially one incredibly helpful person on another forum who posted for help then put 'it's ok I've sorted it' without explanation!
Mark

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