MISSING!!! PRINTER UTILITIES

somehow I lost the printer utilities and thus cannot add a printer. I've searched my hard drive and somehow it's gone. how can i re-install it?
thx

You can download a copy of Pacifist and use it to extract the Printer Setup Utility from the OS X disc.
The Printer Setup Utility should be located in Applications > Utilities.
Paul

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I wonk as a It technician in a College environment. We have a computer lab with 40 Dell OptiPlex 390's connected via a local area network to a Hp Laser Jet P3015. The students have to use a water mark during exams as a way to identify on witch computers they wrote the exam. Now on random occasions Radom alphabetical characters are being miss printed for example all the "I's" or "T's" in the document won't simply print. To get the machine to print correctly I have to reboot the pc and printer and this can cause a lot of trouble during the exams. I have tried using different drivers (UPD PCL 6 and UPD PLC 5) but the miss prints still occur. Microsoft office 2010 and 2007 was running parallel on the computers, but I uninstalled 2010 due to the fact that our text books for 2010 will only be available next year. Please can anybody assist me.
System Information
Time of this report: 9/5/2013, 13:08:06
Machine name: STR-B122-01
Operating System: Windows 7 Professional 32-bit (6.1, Build 7601) Service Pack 1 (7601.win7sp1_rtm.101119-1850)
Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: Dell Inc.
System Model: OptiPlex 390
BIOS: Default System BIOS
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-2100 CPU @ 3.10GHz (4 CPUs), ~3.1GHz
Memory: 4096MB RAM
Available OS Memory: 3240MB RAM
Page File: 715MB used, 5764MB available
Windows Dir: C:\Windows
DirectX Version: DirectX 11
DX Setup Parameters: Not found
User DPI Setting: Using System DPI
System DPI Setting: 96 DPI (100 percent)
DWM DPI Scaling: Disabled
DxDiag Version: 6.01.7601.17514 32bit Unicode

The majority of the tools in the PCL Paraphernalia application generate print jobs; the Target menu allows the user to select the target (network-connected) printer, or to direct the output instead to a file.
However, four of the tools do not interact directly with a printer, and the Target menu is irrelevant for these tools; the PRN File Analyse tool is one of these, and with this tool, the file to be analysed is selected via the Open Print File ... button in the dialogue of that tool.
The Downloads page of the website provides a link to a Windows .chm Help file, which describes the application and each tool.
The TrueType Courier New display font is usually mapped to an equivalent printer-resident scalable Courier font on most LaserJet (and clone) printers - I don't have access to a LaserJet P3015, so I don't know for sure which printer-resident fonts are available - you could find out by printing out a PCL Typeface (Font) List from the printer.
Your captured mytest.prn file:
Shows that a font selection sequence for the printer-resident Courier font is present, but also downloads 11 different PCL soft fonts - 10 of these are in resolution-specified bitmap font format, the other one is in PCL Encapsulated TrueType (PCLETTO) format - without a lot of additional checking, I don't know which font is used for which bits of text in your print document.
Prints (2 pages), without any apparent problem, on my local LaserJet 1320n printer - there do not appear to be any missing characters, so either you have captured a sample which does not exhibit the fault, or the problem is within your own printer, not the driver-generated print stream.
I can't post the analysis output here, as this (Consumer) forum does not provide file upload facilities; the equivalent Business forum (see http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/Printing-and-Digital-Imaging/ct-p/bsc-412 ), which is probably more relevant to your printer model and configuration, does provide this feature.

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...I have the proper printer descriptions and they are in the extensions folder....
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Missing printer drivers - can't add new drivers

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Missing print options - Canon MP600 and ????

Well I discovered the hard way another function deleted in SL!
I have a Canon MP600 multifunction unit. Now when I go to print, I can NOT specify certain pages to print such as 1, 3, 7, 10. In Tiger & Leopard I could.
I finally found the option for printing all even or all odd pages under "Paper Handling". This helps but this means I have to switch to another screen to get that option. And why there instead of under instead of "Duplex Printing and Margin", a more logical place for the even or odd selection if not on the main page.
Also missing is the option to just print the current page.
For one document I wanted to print, I selected the pages one-by-one on the first page of the printer dialogue by selection a range of say 3 to 3.
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John Mertes wrote:
I have a Canon MP600 multifunction unit. Now when I go to print, I can NOT specify certain pages to print such as 1, 3, 7, 10. In Tiger & Leopard I could.
I agree with Todd. You must have been using Office or Acrobat or some other application that provided this feature. The Preview application included with 10.6 has exactly the same print options as that provided with 10.5.
I finally found the option for printing all even or all odd pages under "Paper Handling". This helps but this means I have to switch to another screen to get that option. And why there instead of under instead of "Duplex Printing and Margin", a more logical place for the even or odd selection if not on the main page.
The Duplex Printing menu is provided by Canon. It is known as a PDE (Print Dialog Extension). When you think about, if the printer can print duplex then you usually don't want to print odd or even pages. This is more suited for printers that have no duplex option, where you would need to print one side then reload and print the other - hence it being provided by Apple and not the vendor.
Also missing is the option to just print the current page.
Preview does have an additional menu under File called 'Print Selected Page'.
For one document I wanted to print, I selected the pages one-by-one on the first page of the printer dialogue by selection a range of say 3 to 3.
That was also the case with Preview on 10.5. So again, you must be referring to a particular application that had print current page. BTW - if it was Acrobat you were using on 10.5 then this is still available with 10.6.
Is this all the SL printer driver? Will the old Leopard driver work? If so how do I get it back?
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