Wireless Printer Sharing Crashes Programs

I have a wireless network at home, with two Macbooks and a G5 connected to an HP 8200 Photosmart printer. The printer is shared, and my old G4 powerbook and iBook can print to them without issue. On the MacBooks, I can see the shared printer in the Print Dialog, but if I select one, I get the spinning pinwheel for about 30 seconds, and then the application suddenly quits. This has happened with several different applications.
I have tried the following:
* rebooting
* repairing permissions
* attempting to print from a "clean" test user account
* using Printer Setup Repair to completely reset the printing system
I called Apple today and after an hour on the phone with the woman, we got disconnected. We established that my Macbook can print on my HP 8200 Photosmart printer both when directly connected and, weirdly, just the once over my appletalk network. Otherwise, every program just crashes when I go to print. Very irritating and it happens on both of my Macbooks. If anyone out there has a solution, I'd love to hear it

I have a fix for the MacBook print button crashing
application programs.
You need to trash the existing HP printer folder (in
applications folder) and delete the printer profile
in the System Preferences/Print & Fax.
Once the old stuff is deleted, go to hp.com and
download and install the latest driver and/or
software and driver applications.
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareList?lc=en&
cc=us〈=en&product=441245&dlc=en&os=219
The issue is the latest driver is coded Mac Universal
which works with the Intel architecture in the MB.
This fixed my print crashes. I have a HP 2570 series
all-in-one printer connected via AirPort.
For those of you not using HP printers, go to your
printer manufacturer's web site and check latest
driver availalbe for your printer. Most likely they
will have a newer MB compatible driver.
Good Luck!
Black Macbook, iMac G4, iBook G3,
Grape iMac, Mac 6100 Mac OS X (10.4.2)
I tried it. Deleted the HP stuff and the hp stuff in my Library/Printers folder. Installed the drivers from the HP website. Everything still crashes. Anyone else with an idea?
sleiweke

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