Why won't some of my hp printers work with os 10.8

I've upgraded to Mountain Lion but two of my HP printers (laserjet 2100tn and designjet 130nr) don't now oerk. I've downloaded the latest update 2.1 (I think) and retarted my Mac Pro Intel 2010. I also have a HP F4100 - this works! The printers shwo up in printer preferences as new printers just added, documents show the printers in their print menus, and say that they are printing. Then nothing happens. The printer dialogues says ready to print. If I press resume it says printing, but still nothing happens. It even says "printed - page 1" then briefly comes up with a message saying "connected", before returning to the dialogue window noting " ready to print" again! Any ideas?

I downloaded the whole package of latest drivers and no luck - the Laserjet 1022n printed page 1, 2,4,6,8 of any document whatever the source.  If you set it to print odd pages only it printed 1,4,8, etc.
The answer for me was Gutenprint - thanks to the exhausted-sounding person in the HP support forums.  This is what worked for me:
go to http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/MacOSX.php , download v5.2.9 and install it.  Ignore the terrifying documentation that refers to compiling, it works automatically.
control-click in the printers box in system prefs and reset the printing system completely
add the LJ1022 in the usual way - osx insists on installing the useless latest driver, so let it. 
Then add a new printer again, this time a box comes up which allows you to choose which printer and with what driver. 
Select LJ1022 + CUPS + Gutenprint v5.2.9 as the driver, confirm that you want to add a second instance of the LJ1022 - this came up as LJ1022-1
Now delete the original instance of that printer, and off you go. 
Prints all the pages and doesn't hang ... so far ...
This reflects my own experience and was with osx 10.8.3 and an HP 1022n on the network.  Can't say if it'll work with anything else, but there are a lot of folks out there talking about Gutenprint for unsupported printers with later versions of osx. 

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