Printer Fix for Mac OS X (cups)

When Mac OS X Leopard came up, I had to face the problem, that all “CUPS” printer did not show up in the printer-menu.

Thankfully I found the Blog-Article “Printer fix for Leopard” at “blog.mcohen.me”.

Today, with Mac OS X Lion” I still had this problem. So, here is the solution:

1. Open a terminal (search for “terminal” or “Terminal.app” in Spotlight).

2. Edit the following file /etc/cups/cupsd.conf. Note you need super user rights to do it.

Something like

su vim  /etc/cups/cupsd.conf

should do it.

3. Find the following lines:

# Show shared printers on the local network.
Browsing On
BrowseOrder allow,deny
BrowseAllow all

4. Add the following line at the End of this block.

BrowseProtocols all

5. Final step - Run this in your terminal: sudo killall -HUP cupsd
I had to restart to get it really up’n’running. But now all printers are available again.