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The process "usb" stopped unexpectedly with status
Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2009 12:37 am
by johnjuliano
I receive this message running MAC OS 10.6 printing to a shared printer on a Mac running 10.4
"The process "usb" stopped unexpectedly with status 79"
What causes this? What is the best way to correct the problem and resume printing?
--john
Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2009 10:25 am
by zedonet
Hello johnjuliano,
apparently this error message is produced by the Mac with the shared printer, i.e. the usb port driver "usb" failed.
This is probably not a special PrintFab problem but caused by an unstable "usb" backend driver. There is a more reliable usb driver, called "usbtb", which is available for free.
We have placed a link to this alternative USB driver on the PrintFab download page at
www.printfab.com. Please try to install the usbtb driver on your OS X 10.4 Mac, then change the existing printing queue from "usb" to "usbtb" or establish a new printing queue using usbtb.
In case you set up a new printing queue, pleae make sure that you also change your printer connection on the OS 10.6 mac to address the new usbtb queue.
Thanks
Posted: Thu Dec 17, 2009 4:33 pm
by johnjuliano
Thanks for this reply. We will try that.
--john
usbtb installation a success (?)
Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2009 3:29 pm
by johnjuliano
Hi,
The installer installed after a number of error messages. The installer said it could not find a compatible CUPS front-end for the printer -- which I think makes sense.
At the end of the installation, I received a success message and all seems fine.
I was able to make a connection through the usbtb, though it took a few minutes for software to find the printer through that connection. All seems to be working fine.
One small note, I ran the PrintFab printer utility while I was printing and received, initially, a time-out error and then printer busy messages until I restarted the Mac that printer was attached to.
Other than that, everything has been working very well. Thanks for the help.
--john