Is HP going to orphan the HP Designjet 120nr large format printer in Snow Leopard?
At present because there is no support for this printer in 10.6, I have had to install the 10.5 driver and that works (though I guess only in 32 bit applications).
The other problem is that the previous HP printer utilities do not work and therefore no way to calibrate etc.
Designjet 120NR - cannot get the previous System Maint Utility to work - it crashes:
Process: HPDesignjetSysMaint 1028
Path: /Library/Printers/hp/hp designjet system maintenance/HPDesignjetSysMaint.app/Contents/MacOS/HPDesignjetSysMaint
Identifier: com.hp.HP DesignJet System Maintenance
Version:
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Build Info: HP_Utility1_PrinterSupport-140000~10
Code Type: X86 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd 306
Date/Time: 2009-09-01 12:24:09.654 +0100
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.6 (10A432)
Report Version: 6
Exception Type: EXC_BREAKPOINT (SIGTRAP)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000002, 0x0000000000000000
Crashed Thread: 0
Dyld Error Message:
Symbol not found: _papm
Referenced from: /Library/Printers/hp/hp designjet system maintenance/HPDesignjetSysMaint.app/Contents/MacOS/HPDesignjetSysMaint
Expected in: /System/Library/Frameworks/AppleTalk.framework/Versions/A/AppleTalk
Given that the HP Designjet 130nr is apparently supported in 10.6 and it is so similar to the 120nr, I can't see why HP can't easily update the 120nr (or give me a 130nr to replace their now deliberately obsoleted 120nr printer).
