Printer Setup Repair is designed to rectify situations where Print Center will not open, printers cannot be added, and numerous other errors.

Although Printer Setup Repair cannot fix every printing problem, it can resolve most of the common ones.

Print Therapy is the only utility in the world designed to diagnose and repair problems that can occur with the Mac OS X printing system.

These problems include, but are not limited to, the inability to open the Print & Fax System Preference pane, inabillity to add printers, disappearing print jobs, corrupted preference files, and inability to create PDF files.

Print Therapy also includes some useful tools for deleting extra printer drivers, installing or deleting PPD files, deleting old spool files, backing up and restoring the printing system, and resetting the printing system.

Here are some key features of "Printer Therapy":

· Verify the root user.
· Verify and recreate the lp user.
· Verify and recreate the lp group.
· Verify and repair the Printer Setup Utility file permissions.
· Verify and repair the /System/Library directory permissions.
· Verify and repair the CUPS directories.
· Verify and repair the /Library directory permissions.
· Verify and repair the home user Library directories.
· Reset the Printer Setup Utility.
· Delete CUPS spool files.
· Verify and repair the /private/tmp directory.
· Stop, start, or restart the cupsd process.
· View and modify the hostconfig file.
· Replace the cupsd.conf file.
· Delete hidden temporary files.
· Delete all Printer Setup Utility preferences.
· Calculate the directory size of the pre-installed drivers.
· Delete the pre-installed drivers.
· Install PPD files.
· Delete PPD files.
· View the CUPS access_log file.
· View the CUPS error_log file.
· View the CUPS page_log file.

Requirements:

· Minimum screen resolution of 1024 x 768

Limitations:

· 7 days trial.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· This version adds support for Mac OS X 10.6.8.
· The process of gathering permission data prior to permission repairs is now much faster. PPDs are now listed in alphabetical order in the PPD Inspection list regardless of name case and population of the PPD Inspection list is now much faster.
· Switching between PPD directories in the PPD Inspection tab no longer clears the Inspection list.
· Instead, the list can be refreshed manually. Printer driver data is now gathered much faster.