G5 USB + HP Photosmart = 0

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drbrad

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I recently bought an HP Photosmart 8450 printer for my G5, but no matter what I do, I cannot get the G5 to recognize the printer via USB. I can get it to print via Bluetooth, but you can't read camera cards via Bluetooth, so I need to use USB. I have spent hours and hours on this, talking with Apple (they insist it must be HP's fault) and with HP, who sent me a new printer, figuring the USB port must have gone bad, but to no avail. I have fixed permissions, no help. Anybody have any idea what is going on with this? I have tried different USB cables, no good. I am now on my second printer from HP, and I don't know whether to give up on this printer, or what to do.

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did you install drivers for the printer? did you set it up correctly in the os using printer setup utility?
 
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Yes, installed, reinstalled, at least three times.... When I get done and try to set up the printer in the OS, it just won't show up on the list of printers. Could this be the problem?

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did you install drivers for the printer? did you set it up correctly in the os using printer setup utility?
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Does the printer indicator light happen to power off when connected to the G5? Don't know if this would be a similiar issue, but I had a Epson 1670 that would power off evertime I plugged it into a USB port connected directly to the G5. What ended up working was connecting it to a USB port on the Monitor, I suppose a USB Hub may work just as well. Hope this helps.
 
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drbrad said:
I recently bought an HP Photosmart 8450 printer for my G5, but no matter what I do, I cannot get the G5 to recognize the printer via USB. I can get it to print via Bluetooth, but you can't read camera cards via Bluetooth, so I need to use USB. I have spent hours and hours on this, talking with Apple (they insist it must be HP's fault) and with HP, who sent me a new printer, figuring the USB port must have gone bad, but to no avail. I have fixed permissions, no help. Anybody have any idea what is going on with this? I have tried different USB cables, no good. I am now on my second printer from HP, and I don't know whether to give up on this printer, or what to do.

I need to print out my Christmas Cards still! Help!
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I'm not sure of the answer, and I have an HP Printer with my G5 which works fine..but..

In my general experience(Windows, Linux, and now Mac) HP products are the dumps....I've never gotten an HP product that I never had a problem with..
 

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