Lost Printing Capability to HP Photosmart 8050

After pouring over the printing forum issues and resolutions, I have yet to find a real solution to regain the ability to print to my HP Photosmart Printer. After completing this 10.5.8 upgrade, Apple has seemly left a lot of us out in the cold with no hat or gloves! I suspect that I will resort to reinstall a previous version of my OS just to get it to work again, but would like to express my disappointment to Apple for not addressing this issue, since its been several WEEKS since its users have expressed their concerns and sought answers to resolve their issues. I can almost guarantee that I will NOT upgrade to snow leopard unless I am provided not only a hat and gloves, but a warm coat and a pair of boots. Thanks to you on the forum for your many attempts to assist us users in our hour of need.

I feel your pain, and today I logged about 5 hours trying every trick or suggestion I found. My HP is a Photosmart 7350, and it actually quit printing back with 10.2, but it wasn't until the last few days that I began digging in. Today, I bounced between HP's site, sourceforge.net, Apple and more. What drove me crazy was that my HP inkjet utility could print (instantly) but none of my attempts with OS X 10.8 and Gutenprint 5.4 were working.
I tried the suggestion (below) from komputerwz66 and downloaded the HP Photosmart printer driver - Macintosh OS X v 10.2, 10.3, and 10.4 (despite the website's notation that it was for these versions only). When I ran the HP setup after downloading, I couldn't even find the 7350 in the list, so I proceeded as if I were using the Photosmart 8000.
It worked.

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