Q: El Capitan has stopped my Canon MP600 printer from working

No I was printing happily in both Snow leopard & Yosemite & El Capitan until a few weeks ago.

Being forced to buy a new printer by the utter incompetence of Apple Software writers is just nasty. I am seriously thinking of completely abandoning Apple since using it from 1988.

The OS & other software is just getting worse and worse and I am totally fed up with it. It is written in a completely infantile way & 'help' directions  usually difficult to find and missing, illogical and useless because Apple staff have such poor communication and writing skills. It's painful.

And the constant predictive text I am forced to use makes more mistakes than my typing does and wastes loads of time. It is disgusting.

Rysz.

Thanks a million for your eminently intelligent, correct & useful advice. You were entirely right. I re-installed the last /latest Canon driver (vers 10.51.2) which Canon said was only supporting Lion but actually enabled my Canon MP600 printer to work in El Capitan 10.11.6 OS.

I also had a look at the Gutenprint site & saved it for possible future use !

So many thanks for your expertise - something sadly lacking from both Apple and Canon tech help.

What I utterly fail to understand is the complete ignorance of these tech help people from companies like Canon & Apple ( & others).

In the recent past I have had tech help from the WD disk people demand I install mackeeper malware which promptly trashed the OS, Mac Genius bar wrongly install OS Snow Leopard over my Tiger, completely removing Tiger forever when I needed to keep it and in the process they also trashed all my years and years of information. Later Mac tech help were completely unable to sort the problems out, displaying what came across as a total lack of any understanding of how their own software functioned.

When I finally discovered the problem was simple to understand and simple to correct I was astounded at how the Mac tech people were so lacking in basic knowledge. But it had cost me endless telephone calls to Mac over about three months which drove me completely bonkers.

In the end they actually asked me to pay a software house my own cash on behalf of Apple to enable that software house to copy Tiger to my computer as Apple said they did not possess any copies of Tiger themselves. After that, that Genius bar idiot trashed that Tiger, which I still need and don't currently have. They are appallingly useless.

Apple said they would re-imburse me for what they happily said they should have paid for themselves - but then they claimed their accounting system couldn't repay me and I am now going to have to take them to court to force them to honour their debt to me. You just could not make this story up.

I can't turn predictive test off  (as far as I know) on all the various websites I might visit, such as this one. It also took me ages to find out how to turn it off for pages because the help directions are so useless and badly designed and written.