Q: CANON LBP 2900

Looking at the Canon Europe web site, there doesn't appear to be a driver available for Mac OS X. And since it uses Canon's CAPT protocol, you probably won't find a compatible driver from other sources, such as Gutenprint. I suggest you contact your local Canon support and ask them if the LBP2900 has a Mac OS X driver.

I'm also stumped. I've been using these printers for almost 2 years and love them. I recently made the switch to OS X and have been loving it. My only problem is that when I'm at work I am unable to print through the local network. I have everything else setup ... thanks to OS X ... but I cannot connect to the printer since the drivers are missing.

I've been searching all different sources for the drivers and still find nada. Any and all help would be awesome on this one.

There exists a rather complicated workaround to print to non-postscript printers on a WindowsXP machine via LAN. Don't know if it still works on Leopard.

http://iharder.sourceforge.net/current/macosx/winmacprinter/

Message was edited by: Litachao

I just tried that on my friend's mac, who's using the Canon LBP 2900 on her virtualized WindowsXP running under VMWare Fusion. Works perfectly. Follow the steps described in the URL above and then tell OSX to add a new IP-Printer (LDP) and connect it to the IP of the virtual network interface of the OS running on Fusion. Now you can directly print from OSX to your LBP 2900. Should work with Parallels as well.

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Check this out, just saw it on macosxhints.com:

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20080113155618785

i tried to follow the instructions on my macbook pro with leopard, but didn't work (or better the instructions do not apply to leopard). anybody successful in installing LBP 2900 on leopard?
thanks!

I'm on 10.5.2 & this method don't work...

Please help .



Update: In the head of the macosxhints article
"So here's how -- note that these instructions are *_for OS X 10.4.8 and later, but not for 10.5_*."


Why this method don't work on leo? The printer management is not the same?

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Dexter_HD wrote:
I'm on 10.5.2 & this method don't work...

Please help .
Why this method don't work on leo? The printer management is not the same?

Because CAPT drivers are 10.4.x only. Wait until they will be compatible with 10.5. Canon promised Leo fixes this year. There was even an official announcement.

GOOD NEWS !!

Canon released new CAPT drivers (v1.70) & they're ready for leopard.

Link:
http://software.canon-europe.com/software/0028785.asp?model=

It's work like a charm !! Now i can use my LBP2900 on OS 10.5 insteed XP via Paralells...


Thanks Canon .

Hi

Please can you advise how you got the canon lbp 2900 to work with Leopard? I just bought this printer based on this potential, but having installed the driver i can't see a particularly accurate driver to use and whichever i select, the printer does not work

Which driver did you use?

Thanks

OK, so i've been through the instructions above and reset printers and had the printer setup app recognise the 1.70 CAPT driver. But, whenever i print, the docs sit in the queue in a state of 'stopped'.

any ideas?

Ta

Yes it's works .

I use the Canon CAPT driver + the Canon Lbp2900 driver:

- Download & install the Canon CAPT driver:
http://software.canon-europe.com/software/0028785.asp?model=


- Download & install the Canon LBP2900 driver:
(http://www.elverils.com/downloads/LBP2900.gz)
& Place it into the /Library » Printers » Canon » CAPT » Profile

& connect your printer & all is OK .

I think it's because you don't have install the specific drivers... (for the 2900).

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followed your steps, but the system can't recognize the driver for the printer. basically once i have installed the CAPT driver and the .gz file in the profile folder, i connect the printer and the system sees it is a LBP 2900 but cannot find the corresponding driver, do i have to pick a different driver from the list?
thanks!

hello
I have also followed your steps, but the system can't recognize the driver for the printer. I have installed the CAPT driver and the .gz file in the profile folder, i connect the printer and the system sees it is a LBP 2900 but cannot find the corresponding driver.

thanks for more informations!