I am getting a printer message "on hold, Authentication required" when directly connected (USB) to any printer I try to install to my MacBook Pro. Any ideas?

I am having trouble with printing from my MacBook Pro. After succesfully installing a printer, sending a print job results in a alert in the print que that says "on hold Authentication Required"
I am fairly new to Mac and have not the slightest clue what I am doing wrong. Please help!
Thanks, Slojon

After upgrading to OSX Mountain Lion on one of our home computers and having no difficulty with printer access for months, after a glitch involving loss of power, suddenly "On hold (authentication required)" started showing up.
When I deleted the printer and then tried to add it back using the default listing for the printer I got the message "Unable to download the software from the server at this time." I felt I was going backwards. The whole situation was maddening for a couple of days.
Details:
Older G5 Desktop Mac running OSX Snow Leopard wth an HP Color LaserJet 2550 attached via USB.
Early 2011 13" MacBook Pro running OSX Mountain Lion.
Airport WiFi network.
This is really two problems: how to add a printer successfully and how to print without authentication.
How to add a printer
Do not use the default listing for adding the printer that shows up in the popup menu, instead use the generic "Add printer" command, then select the printer and printer type from the secondary menu that comes up. This worked fine for me.
How to avoid the "Authentication required"
Software update on both machines.
Reset printing system (Option & minus "-" key) on both systems.
Add the printer back to the server (older G5 Mac in my case) system.
Ensure that both the printer sharing is selected for the printer and …
… that printer sharing is turned on globally in the Sharing System Preferences
Add the printer back to the client system
I was also able to work this through the CUPS system described in other posts (http://localhost:631) but I always prefer to let Mac OSX handle the UNIX details since I have greater confidence I won't be inadvertantly messing something up.

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I'm having an issue with my clients about printing, everytime they submit a print job to any printer installed on a Windows Server 2008 print server the job will be put on hold in the job queue.
On Hold (Authentication Required)
When you click on "Resume" on the toolbar it ask the user for their credentials. Problem is, this is not save on the client's keychain.
But when you change the name from "Doe,John" to it's login name "jdoe", it logs in just fine.
I guess my questions are:
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     2. How or What do I need to change that when the window above popup, it'll say "jdoe" instead of "Doe,John".
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We have 230 Mac Clients and their's 30 more coming, there must be a way to do it on the terminal or on the server so it affects all the Mac clients that's in the domain.
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I [25/Mar/2008:11:24:00 -0700] [Job 57] Authenticated by "".
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I [25/Mar/2008:11:26:15 -0700] Printer "printer" modified by "jimmyeatapple".
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Message was edited by: jimmyeatmud

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