Had to buy a new printer

Ive been struggling to get my trusty old HP Photosmart 1215 printer to work on my two Leopard machines. Ive tried every piece of hackery to get this thing to work, up until the point that I just gave up. I have reconciled with the fact that HP is not going to support a 7 year old printer at this point, and the Gutenprint driver is just not working at all. I thought it was time to get out of my legacy hardware, and move this printer to my one Tiger machine so it wont go to waste.
So the question was now what to get? I read through some of threads about printer problems lately, and I read a lot of good things about Brother, and how their support for Leopard has been good. I went on newegg and ordered an HFC 240C combo printer/scanner/copier. I got it today, hooked it up, everything was detected, found an updated scanner driver, and now that even works perfectly. It was a very quick setup, and the quality is fantastic. It is under $100, and it has good Leopard support, so for those looking this might be the one to get.

Hello,
Mac OS X: About the Reset Printing System feature ...
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1341?viewlocale=en_US
10.5/10.6/10.7 instructions...
In System Preferences>Fax & Print, Right click or Control+click on the Printers list Sidebar, choose Reset Printing System.
if you hold option and click the "-" tab it resets the printing system.
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20031215144430486
Safe Boot from the HD, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions.
Any devices that previously appeared in your Printer List and Fax List will need to be added again after resetting the printing system.
Resetting the printing system in Mac OS X 10.5.x+++
    1.    To use the Reset Printing System feature in Mac OS X 10.5.x, follow these steps:
    2.    Choose System Preferences from the Apple menu.
    3.    Choose Print & Fax from the View menu.
    4.    Control-click on list of printers on the left side of the window, then choose "Reset printing system" from the contextual menu. If you don't see a list of printers, Control-click on the text "Click + to add a printer or fax" and select "Reset printing system..."       As an alternative, if you currently have one or more printers listed, you can Option-click the "-" (Remove printer) button.
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1341
Reboot.

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