Printer Setup Repair (Tiger)

Printer Setup Repair is designed to rectify situations where the Printer Setup Utility will not open, printers cannot be added, CUPS fails to operate, and numerous other errors. Although Printer Setup Repair cannot fix every printing problem, it is capable of resolving most of the common ones. Printer Setup Repair can also be used to delete unwanted printer drivers, remove a build up of spool files, recreate the /tmp symbolic link, and backup / restore the printing system.

Printer Setup Repair allows the user to do the following:

• Backup and restore the printing system
• Verify and recreate 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
• Repair OS 9 permissions
• Delete PrintMonitor spool files
• Delete OS 9 printing preferences
• Install OS 9 and OS X PPD files
• Delete OS 9 and OS X PPD files
• View the CUPS access_log file
• View the CUPS error_log file
• View the CUPS page_log file

What is new in this release:

• Updated registration system to support the new Family License option.
The main window's size and position is now preserved between launches.

If you are using Mac OS X 10.3.x, you can download Printer Setup Repair 4.x
If you are using Mac OS X 10.1.x or 10.2.x, you can download Print Center Repair

Limitations:

7 day trial