Rebooted, now my printers gone!

I rebooted after accepting an Apple update of Safari and iTunes. Now my printers are gone! I tried adding them with the Printer Utility. There are two, and it sees them: a USB and a networked one, both HP. The Networked one was initially saying "server-error-service-unavailable" after I hit "add" (it saw its options etc.). I "reset the printer system" from the option in Print Utility, and that allowed me to add them both successfully. The networked one works, but the USB-connected one is saying "printer not responding" even though I've cold-reset it. Given the problems with both right after this reboot, I don't think it's a broken printer problem. Any ideas?
thanks,
Mike
Message was edited by: Michael Levin

See Troubleshooting printing issues in Mac OS X
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106714
Mac OS X: About the Reset Printing System feature
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1341?viewlocale=en_US
 Cheers, Tom

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