Printer Setup Utiliity eliminated from Leopard

Why was the printer set up utility eliminated from Leopard? Used it successfully for years with printing 4-page monthly newsletter written with Pages, duplexed on HP 5550dn. Downloaded Leopard in G5 Power Mac initially but lost Safari bookmarks, Eudora e-mail address book plus unable to open other programs until they play catchup with upgrades. Couldn't print from three networked HP LaserJet printers. Disgusted I went back to old reliable Tiger OS 10.4.10. Then installed Leopard in GG Mac Pro. Glutton for punishment. Same problems but managed to survive and solved printer issue, including being able to compress Pages docs to e-mail reduced file size in pdf. Still unable to resolve Safari bookmark issue.
Not a happy camper being old Mac addict since day one when Jobs was a pup surviving many upgrades, but why did Apple eliminate the Printer Setup Utility Utility in Leopard? Thanks and Regards. Ol' Jim

I just came across this "Missing USB class driver" problem today and was able to get it to work. I followed the Troubleshooting section in this page from Lexmark.com: http://www.lexmark.com/lexmark/sequentialem/home/0,6959,2048165961160493508_0en,00.html
The only problem was when I deleted the Lexmark folder in /Library/Printers/ and then tried to empty the trash, it wouldn't let me empty one file (LexmarkCUPSDriver) because it was saying it was being used. I ended up looking for instances of it in Activity Monitor and force quitting each one (I found 5 of them). After that I went ahead and installed the Lexmark drivers from the Optional Installs package in the Leopard CD. After the install, I went ahead and added my printer back in Print & Fax. I have been able to print fine afterwards. Hope this helps.

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thanks for your repsonse greg, however this is not resolved.
ok, i know ive got the 10.3.9 update installed successfully. in fact, i decided to reinstall OS X completely and update from there. this took much time. i backed up all system files manually and erase and installed OS X. i am having multiple problems still as a result, such as dreamweaver m not booting, but that goes beyond the scope of this help thread.
but, i can finally open the Printer Setup Utility. i did not find my old R200 drivers so I reinstalled the R200 driver. I also ran the HP all-in-one software. now, whats left to do is add these two printers in the utility.
When i select from the add printer dialogue, "EPSON USB" it find the R200 driver, then i try to select "add" and it gives me this error: "An error occurred while trying to add the selected printers successful-ok-conflicting-attributes"
when attempting to add the HP all in one to the utility, it won't even find the HP driver. Before i re-installed the HP all-in-one software, it had found it but gave me the exact same error as above. also in the add new printer dialogue the menu item that should say "USB" is just blank, and when i select what should say "usb" anyway, it.
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I hate the HP printing dynasty. They need to be spanked.
I solved this issue by physically moving the printer to my leopard box.
Immediately, all my Macs (god bless 'em) could print and fax. No effort. Thank you Apple.
Then, from the XP network browser, I opened the shared printer and tried to bring up it's properties. XP complained about not having a proper driver installed, so I installed the first Apple Postscript driver that appeared and vi-ola, it's printing just fine (but not faxing - oh well).
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mrcrna wrote:
Greg,
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I can connect to administer them both with a browser.
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Is there a log file or some way I can see why these jobs fail?]
There are logs, some of which are visible in CUPS using the browser.
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Method One:
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I had the same problem not being able to print to Dell 1320c after upgrading to Snow Leopard. Here is a work around for the Dell 1320c printer to work on Mac with Leopard 10.6.2
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