HP printer error: computer is no longer able to communicate

I have an OfficeJet L7680 and a G5 iMac running OS 10.5.8. And for the last six months, every time I installed new software or hardware ANYWHERE the printer stopped communicating with displayed this message in the print queue window:
"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 turn the printer back on"
The standard 'fix' on this is to manually un-install the print driver and reinstall it. After doing this 3X on 3 computers, I discovered that running HP Setup Assistant seems to fix the problem -- so far, anyway.
I know that many people have had this problem with generations of OS/X and HP printers, so I hope this is helpful.

I just had a similar problem. I had a hard drive going bad and put in a new one and used time machine to recover from. For what ever reason I started getting the safe error message when I tried to print. The only solution I found that would work was to delete all of the printers and then reload.
Strange to say the least. I have never really had any printer problems.
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