Apple – Support – Discussions – Serious printing issue after 10.6.5 ….  So Gerrit DeWitt has a solution that works.  Thanks buddy!

After further testing and review, I have isolated the problem to the pstops filter that’s included with CUPS 1.4.5 (and Mac OS X 10.6.5). I was incorrect in my first guess that the pictwpstops filter was involved (although I was close)!

If you’d like to fix the problem yourself before Apple does, you can. Here’s how:

PLEASE NOTE THAT:

• CUPS is open-source and free software, so the source code is published at www.cups.org.

• It is perfectly legal to replace an open-source part of Mac OS X with a different version of that part that you’ve compiled from source (or that a third party has compiled from source for you).

• Although I’ve heavily outlined the following procedure, and tested it to the best of my ability, you’re the one who will be following the directions, so you could make a mistake. As such, you assume full responsibility for anything that goes wrong (including data loss)!

Now, here’s what to do, in a nutshell:

(1) You need the Xcode Developer Tools installed (specifically, you need the gcc compiler). You can install these from your Mac OS X 10.6 Install DVD. You also must be logged-in as an administrator.

(2) Download the CUPS 1.4.4 sources from www.cups.org/software.php. (Direct link: http://cups.org/software.php?VERSION=1.4.5&FILE=cups/1.4.4/cups-1.4.4-source.tar.bz2)

(3) Expand the compressed archive in your Downloads folder – you’ll get a folder called “cups-1.4.4″ after doing so. At this point, let’s agree that the path to the “cups-1.4.4″ folder is: ~/Downloads/cups-1.4.4

(4) Open Terminal, then issue the following commands:

(4a) cd ~/Downloads/cups-1.4.4 Press return. This takes you to the directory where you’ve expanded the CUPS 1.4.4 source.

(4b) sudo ./configure –with-archflags=”-arch i386 -arch x86_64″ Press return, and enter your account password, then press return again. This begins the process of setting up the build. It will take a few seconds.

(4c) sudo make -B Press return. This will build the CUPS software. It will take a few minutes to complete.

After 4a – 4c, you’ve built CUPS 1.4.4. At this point, you have two options to proceed:

Option A – Replace all of CUPS. You can replace the entire CUPS 1.4.5 that came with Mac OS X 10.6.5 with the CUPS 1.4.4 that you just built. OR

Option B – Replace just the pstops filter. This leaves the rest of your CUPS 1.4.5 installation intact, only downgrading the pstops filter.

(5) – Option A Only: In Terminal, type: sudo make -B install and press return. This will move the just-compiled CUPS 1.4.4 pieces into their appropriate locations. Restart your computer when this finishes.

(5) – Option B Only: Issue the following commands while still in Terminal:

sudo launchctl unload /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.cups.cupsd.plist (This stops the CUPS printing system so that we can replace the pstops filter.)

sudo rm /usr/libexec/cups/filter/pstops (This removes the CUPS 1.4.5 version of pstops.)

sudo cp ~/Downloads/cups-1.4.4/filter/pstops /usr/libexec/cups/filter/pstops (This copies the 1.4.4 version of pstops to its appropriate location.)

sudo chown root:wheel /usr/libexec/cups/filter/pstops (This sets the owner/group on pstops correctly.)

sudo chmod 0555 /usr/libexec/cups/filter/pstop (This sets the permissions on pstops correctly.)

Reboot your computer when finished with the above.

To undo the changes you’ve made: If you’d like to undo the changes you made – either replacing all of CUPS with version 1.4.4 or just the pstops filter – you can easily do so by re-applying the Mac OS X 10.6.5 Update Combo. Link: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1324