HP driver causing mac os x sleep problems?

[sloow]

I have found by trial and error that components of the HP printer driver were causing or contributing to a problem with my Mac Powerbook going to sleep. If I open up the Activity monitor and force quit all processes with HP in the name... The sleep function seems to work normally.  The problem stays quiet until I use the driver again, then regardless of restarts, forced sleep, etc. the driver stays active until I go back into the Activity monitor and force quit.. An unwieldy solution at best.

Are there preferences in the driver that I'm missing that would help with this issue?

[neil snape]

I have found by trial and error that components of the HP printer driver were causing or contributing to a problem with my Mac Powerbook going to sleep. If I open up the Activity monitor and force quit all processes with HP in the name... The sleep function seems to work normally.  The problem stays quiet until I use the driver again, then regardless of restarts, forced sleep, etc. the driver stays active until I go back into the Activity monitor and force quit.. An unwieldy solution at best.

Are there preferences in the driver that I'm missing that would help with this issue?
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I had that with my G4 MDD. I had to quit the HP Status Monitor if I remember right. I would have made an automator script to do so but the process number changes. It was only a problem with both the Z drivers and the 9180 at the same time.
It seems to be fixed with the most recent drivers, but I changed to MacIntel as a main computer.
Yet the MDD sleeps now no problem.