Printer Drivers Disappeared

Does anyone have any idea why my printer drivers just up and disappeared. The Printer set-up utility can't find them. A search can't find them. I didn't delete them... I don't even know where they are (or were?).
Thoughts?
Thanks
c.
PowerBook G4 Mac OS X (10.3.9) 1GB RAM

Reloading can be a scary concept until you consider the alternative which is to not be able to use your system at all. I believe that your system has links/files that are corrupted/broken that have taken down your ability to print. It seems that everything is there but just not connected which makes me wonder what else is wrong.
As to reinstalling it is a no brainer if you are backed up. EVERYONE should have a cloned system as a minimal back up. Consider that your main hard drive will fail sooner or later and will leave you with few alternatives.
You can back up your user files to cd/dvd which is good but still leaves you with days of reloading and re installing systems and applications if your hard drive fails.
The best way to keep going without a hitch is to have a hard drive with a clone or two on it. You can test solutions to problems on a clone. If it does not work then trash the clone and reclone. You can start your mac off a clone if your main drive fails and keep working. If you have never had a drive fail or an upgrade that trashes your system then you don't see the benefits of cloning/backing up. The day a serious problem occurs then you will realize what I am talking about.
If I was suggesting that you archive and install without any back up then, yes, it would be scary. If you are fully backed up then there is no risk. The only way that I know of to be Fully backed up is to clone. It requires an external hard drive for a laptop but you should have one anyway. I believe that your ppd exists but is not where I told you to look.
Click on the desktop and do a "command f" to bring up the find/sherlock window. You are going to look for CUPS but first have to expand the search to look for invisible files (use the + sign in blue) and add the visibility is....
Put CUPS into the file name field and with visibility set to invisible you are ready to search. You should get a lising of files that have cups and are invisible. One has the parent folder of Share. Double click on that folder.
You are going to look to the following path:
/share/CUPS/model/C/the model of the printers that you are looking for.
In your case it will be escp2-750.ppd.gz (which stands for Epson Stylus Color Printer). If you find it then your library has the printer description but the connection to it has been corrupted. The question is now what else is messed up and waiting to take down your system to the point that it cannot be used.
I would get the backup drive big enough for 2 clones of your hard drive, partition it in half. Clone twice and practice on the clone. If you trash the clone you still have 2 copies of your system. You can always trash a clone, reclone, and work on it till you get it right. If my suspicions are correct, some future update of your system will make it unusable because of what has brought you to the Apple forums in the first place. You are sitting on a ticking data bomb. At this point you have a chance to fully prevent any loss of data and use of your computer.

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HKR,,,,%PrinterClassName%
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thanks for the solution. I have an HP Photosmart D110a wireless printer. Windows 8 installed a generic printer driver that worked fine for printing but I lost all functionality to the scanner of the device.
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thanks again for the post

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Just to give you some background, I have a HP PhotoSmart 6180 multifunction inkjet machine. The printer has been wirelessly attached to my home network for about two years now (Linksys WRT54G). All print functions work (printing to photo tray, using the document feeder, accessing the scanner, printing via bluetooth dongle, etc) when I am home on the network. I even have on my Windows Mobile phone an application called HP iPhoto which allows me to wirelessly print to the photo tray. You see, there are no problems on this end.
Here is my problem: Using my Windows-based PC, I have the ability to print to it remotely via the internet. I use the HP Remote Printing, v 2.323.0.0 driver and Instant Share through HP's site. I can also print remotely using any program that has a print function, i.e... Internet Explorer, MS Word, Adobe PDF, HP Solution Center, etc.). However, I cannot choose the photo paper tray. I am only able to change the size of the print job, for instance: 4x6, 8 1/2X11, Hagaki. In the HP Remote Printing Preferences, only two tabs are available: Paper/Quality and Basic. In the Remote Printing Properties, the Device Settings tab (which is one of the tabs available when I look at the properties of the actual printer) is not available. This is where I would add the available trays. I believe it has to do with the driver version.
It would help me tremendously if I can have the ability to choose the photo paper tray when printing remotely. Most of the items that I send to my printer are photos. I've tried and tried to get help from HP, but to no avail (my printer is out of warranty, not applicable for free support, etc.). Please help. It would be greatly appreciated.
Thanking you in advance.

Hi again.
You're quite correct, it is CUPS (Common UNIX Printer System).
Is http://www.linuxprinting.org/database.html what you were looking for?
There are many '1100' HP printers listed.
OSX also installs Gimp print drivers, I'm a total ignoramus as to how you set them up though, sorry.
Adrian
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