Why can't I add a printer?

error 1283 when adding printer

• Hi, All of a sudden I get error 1282 when add a printer in OSX 10.2.8.  (G4 1.25) It is my regular printer that I have always used (Epson USB 880i).  So I tried with another printer at a differnet location and I get the same error message.  (So I know it is not the printer) I followed all these streps below going to apple help and still cannot get my printer that has always worked fine. I did notice in step 2 that my resulting line of code does not match the apple tech help code exactly character for character. I I pasted it below) so is that maybe the problem.  Or is it some thing else? First I did these steps and this did not work. 1. Open Terminal (/Applications/Utilities/). 2. At the prompt type: cd /var/spool/ 3. Press Return. 4. Type: sudo mkdir cups 5. Press Return. 6. Type your Admin user password when prompted, then press Return. 7. Type: sudo chown daemon:admin cups 8. Press Return. 9. Type: sudo chmod 700 cups 10. Press Return. 11. Quit Terminal. 12. Restart the computer. So then I tried these steps to see if /tmp  is already deleted, Mac OS X 10.2.8 or earlier 1.   Open Terminal (/Applications/Utilities/). 2.   Type: ls -la / | grep tmp 3.   Press Return. 4.   Look at the resulting text. If it matches the following line (which would indicate that /tmp is still present) then this document does not apply to you, and you should stop here and try another troubleshooting path. lrwxrwxr-t 1 root admin 11 Jan 15 11:00 tmp@ -> private/tmp (This is my resulting code below, it is close but not an exact match?) lrwxrwxr-t   1 root   admin         11 Jun  1 09:41 tmp -> private/tmp The timestamp following "admin" will reflect the current date. 5.   If you do not see the line above, then type: sudo ln -s /private/tmp /tmp 6.   Press Return. 7.   Enter your administrator account password when prompted, the press Return. I apprciate your kind help.  Thanks, kevin

• Answer:

  well, I'm not a friend with a command line, here is the link that can help you; http://my.brandeis.edu/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg%5fid=0001yz&topic%5fid=21&topic= also there is a simple way of taking care of this. just reinstall os x. 30 minutes and you are done. elia