Disable HP Printing Daemons per User?

[windrag]

I frequently use my iBook for recording concerts, and I have created a user with no extra login items to minimize interference with disc recording. I have an HP PSC 1610, and there are several daemons that launch automatically at startup, regardless of the user I log in as. There are two folders in /Library/StartupItems that are HP related. I tried moving these to ~/Library/StartupItems (for my regular, non-recording user) but these items did not launch from that location, so I moved them back.

I also looked in /Library/Preferences/loginwindow.plist and saw that most of the items I want not to launch in my recording user are listed there, (but not the items that are in /Library/StartupItems).

I am looking for a safe way to either:

1) Ensure that the printing daemons are not launched when I login as the recording user, or

2) Run a script that kills just the processes I want without messing anything else up.

I realize that I could just open Activity Monitor and kill the processes from there, but it would be nice to find a more graceful solution. Let me know if this is better suited for the UNIX forum.

Thanks!

[hayne]

Tell us the names of the HP-related folders under /Library/StartupItems
It is quite possible that you can get along without these daemons all of the time. Often this sort of thing is used to implement features like a "one touch" button which are not essential.

[windrag]

The folders are called HP IO and HP Trap Monitor. Helpful?

[hayne]

The folders are called HP IO and HP Trap Monitor. Helpful?
Not terribly. But I would try disabling them (moving them out of the StartupItems folder) and then restarting your Mac and see what happens - i.e. if the printer still functions adequately.