![]() I'm trying to sort the same printing problem out. Doing a search for Gutenprint drivers however and downloading the Gutenprint 7.5.2 image solved it and printing now works fine. This was with printer drivers downloaded from Canon for the i865. Adding a printer using the discovered printer via Bonjour did not produce an error but left the test page job hanging. There is not an option for Windows/Samba printing in Cups 1.5, as used by Lion, although it is possible to enter the via another menu option - although this produced an error - printer offline. This worked well.Īfter upgrading to a MacBookPro with Lion it didn't work. Previously, with a MacBook I followed ash32's instructions (almost) to the letter, only using different password for user Print as my QNAP TS110 is not happy with password = username. you are right that they do not make them like this anymore.Drbob49 wrote:Managed to get it all working with Lion and CUPS 1.5 and a Canon i865. in the end it took me longer to read your instructions and the comments than it did to get me back online. thank you sir for greasing the track to get my 4mp back online. i sent a test page and moments later i was looking at my printout, albeit heavily faded. truth is i didn’t even need to install the supplemental software as connecting it over usb tethered it to the residual printer reference from many years ago (current os 10.7.5). your mention of the parallel to usb cable reminded me i had one in the basement from a previously failed attempt so i resurrected it and got it plugged in. this morning i rolled up my sleeves committed to getting it working again and prepared for hours of research and testing to make it so. i had given up on ever making it work again but as it is snugly installed on a desk shelf i’ve left in place all these years in honor of its decade of bullet-proof service. Several years ago my laserjet 4mp stopped working after one mac os upgrade or another. UPDATE: If you need to share your printer with Windows machines, this article from Apple does the trick. Gotta’ love open source software! (If I remember correctly, Richard Stallman was trying to fix a printer driver when he created the idea of “free software”–now known as open source–because the driver was closed-source and wasn’t working.) > Print & Fax and ensured the printer was named what I wanted and set to use the HP LaserJet 5P – CUPS+Gutenprint v5.2.5 driver. However, on both flavors of OS X, I went to System Preferences. On Snow Leopard (10.6) A printer called “Unknown Unknown” was found and I wasn’t prompted about copying or creating a new queue. On Leopard (OS X 10.5) the installation step that searches for printers gave me an error message about not being able to find any printers, but I just continued, and when asked whether to copy or create a new queue, I naturally opted to create a new one. ![]() The base installer installs the print drivers maintained by Gutenprint and usbtb installs the core component that supports USB printers. To get around this issue, I ran the CUPS Gutenprint installer and the usbtb installer. I purchased a USB to Parallel adapter, which OS X naturally couldn’t use see. Today I wanted to get it to work on my Apple Macbook Pro laptops without having to fork out a ton of cash for a print server device. I have an HP LaserJet 5P that has been in the family for over 15 years and is still kicking butt.
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