PowerBook G3 Series (Bronze keyboard): Printing After Waking Issues

My PowerBook G3 Series (Bronze keyboard) has difficulty printing to a USB printer after it wakes from sleep. It may display a message that it cannot find the printer; it may crash or hang; or it may report an application unexpectedly quit because of a Type 1, 3, or 11 error. After it wakes from sleep two printers appear in the Chooser at USB Port 1 and USB Port 2, even though only one USB printer is physically connected to the PowerBook.
This is a potential issue with the PowerBook G3 Series (Bronze keyboard) running Mac OS 8.6 or 9.0, when a printer is connected using a USB to Parallel adapter cable, sometimes referred to as a dongle. This issue is being investigated. If you encounter this issue here are some ways to work around it:
Published Date: Feb 18, 2012