I am trying to use the advice from another thread (https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4549443) to get my new Mac (Mountain Lion, OS x 10.8.2) to recognize my printer. The printer is an older one no longer supported by its manufacturer (Xerox PE220, exactly the same as in the other thread). The other thread says that the generic driver is located here:

/System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/P rintCore.framework/Versions/A/Resources/Generic.ppd

As numerous people, I bought an HP (printer-scanner-copier) color printer for my Mac. First and upmost. This is a great little piece of equipment like most HP products. Color prints are speckless, scanning and coping simple. However, there are drawbacks, I believe mainly due to a 1-to-1 porting of the PC drivers/utilities to the Apple world. Learn how to update Mac OS X to use the HP printer driver. Updating the printer driver will allow you to get full functionality out of your HP printer and he. Somehow Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion and HP psc 750 printers are incompatible. Neither Apple nor HP cares enough to provide drivers that allow one to print & scan with this device and OS.

. . . I can't find it because I don't know how. Terminal tells me 'Permission denied' when I enter this line in it. I tried searching for 'Generic.ppd' in Spotlight and that didn't work, either. Using System Information, I could get as far as /System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework, but no 'Versions' or anything farther down show up.

I'm not a power user, so I'm stumped.

Please help me get from knowing where the driver is to actually being able to use it!

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)

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