metrognome Posted July 26, 2008 Share Posted July 26, 2008 Hey folks, hope this is the right place for this... So I'm trying to install a wireless printer and get my hackintosh and the wife's MBP to print to it. I picked up a Linksys WPS54G-RM. Now I know Linksys isn't particularly Mac friendly but it was a good price and I'd read some online articles that were talking people through it. I'm in the IT industry (although new to OSX) and figured I'd be able to scratch my way through setting it up. I've got the thing up. I can go to it's web config and do all that needs to be done. What I can't do is add the frakkin printer in the OSX side. If I connect my Canon i850 via USB directly to my box, it shows up. The Canon driver I installed is automatically chosen. If I try to add a network printer (IPP or LPD) I get through everything but the Canon doesn't appear on the "Print Using:" dropdown list. From what I can gather, something is being smart about knowing that the Canon is a USB printer so it figures I couldn't possibly want to choose it for a network printer. Am I right about what is happening? Is there a way around it? The driver *IS* installed - and prints just fine if I hook the printer up directly. I just want to use that driver when I create a network printing destination and it won't let me. Any suggestions that don't involve hammers or dynamite would be more constructive than what I'm currently contemplating... Thanks much! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
why_care Posted July 26, 2008 Share Posted July 26, 2008 Hey, Canon drivers let you down - they are obviously not proper CUPS drivers and only support USB connection, and same applies to a whole lot of printers. You'll need to find a .ppd file for your printer, which is the description of your printer for CUPS, and also a driver to go with it. Chances are you will not find one for OSX but you might be lucky to find one for Linux of some kind. Try searching through http://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/OpenPrin...e/DatabaseIntro and visit http://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/MacOSX, you might find a driver for your printer there. Even if you do find a suitable driver, it most definitely won't support all of your Canon printing options, performance may be poor and it may still be PPC only. But if you're determined Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metrognome Posted July 26, 2008 Author Share Posted July 26, 2008 Hey, Canon drivers let you down - they are obviously not proper CUPS drivers and only support USB connection, and same applies to a whole lot of printers. You'll need to find a .ppd file for your printer, which is the description of your printer for CUPS, and also a driver to go with it. Chances are you will not find one for OSX but you might be lucky to find one for Linux of some kind. Try searching through http://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/OpenPrin...e/DatabaseIntro and visit http://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/MacOSX, you might find a driver for your printer there. Even if you do find a suitable driver, it most definitely won't support all of your Canon printing options, performance may be poor and it may still be PPC only. But if you're determined Hi why_care, thanks for the response. I looked at those drivers but my i850 isn't there (of course). Now, my Ubuntu installation does recognize the printer and I'm pretty sure it uses CUPS. Maybe I'll dig around in there and see if I can find anything useful. Mildly frustrating but, of course, the problems will teach me about OSX, which is what the goal is for me. First lesson: the next printer we buy will not be a Canon. Thanks again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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