"no printer selected" unless i reset printing system

My printer is never recognized unless i go into the printer setup utility and click on "reset printing system" Then i wait for the utilty to find my printer and i can print. Everytime i shut off my computer, i have to reset the printing system in order to use the printer.
Does anyone know the solution to this problem?

1 back up your stuff to an external drive if at all possible. Use something like Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper!.
2 get out the system CD or DVD which came with your system, or the retail copy of OS X which you bought separately if you upgraded your system software with a newer version of the OS.
3 boot from the CD or DVD noted above by inserting it into the optical drive and restarting holding down the 'C' key.
4 select 'Install' from the options at startup. The system will tell you that you need to change some options to do an install. Tell it yes. You will be presented with a list of options, one of which will be to do an erase install (which will erase your drive and you'll have to move over all your stuff from your backup, you did make a backup, didn't you?) and one of which will be an archival install, which will move your current system files into a folder named Previous Systems and which will install a brand new system. Select archival install.
5 once the install is complete, restart your Mac on the internal drive, and verify that all is well. You can move items you want to keep from the old system, such as fonts, over to the new system and then toss the Previous System folder into the Trash.

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