So I got this nice, new, shiny Macbook Pro and I set it up to print to my Hewlett Packard Color Laser Jet 3600 (HP CLJ 3600) and it was a slow dog.

I would send a job to print and the queue would come up and give me no helpful information.  It would look like it was spooling the job and fail or it would actually print and not clear the queue or give any indication that the job was complete.

So what to do… download drivers.  But that was easier said then done.  The HP site was like a maze trying to find the right driver and then a colleague of mine pointed me to the MacUpdate page that had the drivers available (http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/28037/apple-hp-printer-drivers).

Everything seems to be working now… thankfully.

There is some more discussion on the problem on HP’s support forum here: http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Mac-printing-and-scanning/HP-Color-Laser-Jet-3600dn-unresponsive-in-Snow-Leopard/td-p/115982/page/2