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Joseph C. Slater
The HP 33xx (specifically my 3330) software often loses the ability to connect to your printer/scanner, etc. I've found that killing off and restarting the background communication process sometimes solves this. Rebooting the printer can help too. Bundled are a python script to do this for you and an application that you can double click if you don't like to type at a command line. This simple app has been reported to work with other HP printers (model not mentioned) and is also useful when the process occasionally runs away eating up CPU and needs to be restarted.
What's New
Version 1.1.1: hpkill.app wasn't working. Should be fixed now.
Version 1.1: Added a script and app to kill of the background communication process without restarting it. This results in less trouble with printing. However, you need to run hpcomm to restart it before being able to scan/fax.
Requirements
Intel/PPC, Mac OS X and HP MFP.
Intel/PPC, Mac OS X and HP MFP.
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The HP 33xx (specifically my 3330) software often loses the ability to connect to your printer/scanner, etc. I've found that killing off and restarting the background communication process sometimes solves this. Rebooting the printer can help too. Bundled are a python script to do this for you and an application that you can double click if you don't like to type at a command line. This simple app has been reported to work with other HP printers (model not mentioned) and is also useful when the process occasionally runs away eating up CPU and needs to be restarted.
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If you're concerned, then delete the file, create a text file (not RTF) containing
#! /usr/bin/python
"Kill then HP printing daemon"
import sys, re, os
os.environ['PATH']=os.path.normpath(os.environ['PATH']+':/usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current')
b = 'ps -x | grep Communica|grep HP'
a = os.popen(b).read().split()
print a[0]
os.system('kill ' + a[0])
Read the README file to chmod it, then download MacPython 2.5 and use Build Applet.app to make hpkill.app from hpkill.py
You probably don't need that entire path in there. It's legacy from another script I wrote a while back. It doesn't cause any harm, though, since I don't even have some of those directories anymore.
"Use the NetUpdate X4 program to update your Virus Definitions. The latest definitions should no longer have this problem."
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VirusBarrier reports a "Mac OSX.Exploit.MetaData.B" virus in the "...Kill.py" file.
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Here is their webpage on it: http://www.intego.com/news/ism0602.asp. A quick Google of the issue "osx.exploit.metadata.b" will provide more information.
"Use the NetUpdate X4 program to update your Virus Definitions. The latest definitions should no longer have this problem."