Canon Printer Driver Installed But Cannot Use It

You didn't search the forum as I asked, to learn more about network printing, so I'll try to condense it for you...

Network printing/Windows printing only works with a driver that was meant for network printing. To use the OS X built-in CUPS network choices, you need a CUPS driver. For postscript printers, this is not an issue, because postscript is the native output of OS X - postscript drivers are CUPS drivers by default.
Non-postscript printers are Very Different. Except for Brother, no manufacturer has provided CUPS drivers. Instead, what you get are Carbon-type, OS9 legacy drivers, that have the comm protocol written into the driver (mostly USB). They can only print via local connection.
**An Exception - when printing via an Airport/Bonjour enabled print server (Airport Express/Extreme), where the software does a port redirection, USB output from the Mac gets routed to the USB port on Airport Express/Extreme. In other words, a USB-only driver will work for network printing through Airport Extreme/Express.

What's my point - your Canon-provided driver only works for USB.

Here are the sources of CUPS drivers I know of:
http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/macosx (Gutenprint)
http://www.printfab.net

No, the driver from Canon will not work...
The driver doesn't show up, because it can't - it only works for USB.
I suspect the drivers you are successfully using are the Gimp-Print (CUPS) drivers Apple included in OS X.
Please, don't listen only to me or PAHU - please email Canon with your specific question.

I think Gutenprint will support your specific model:
http://openprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Canon-S630

or, you can try the BJC8200 driver as recommended.
Good luck.

I forgot to explain that sharing a printer Mac-to-Mac is different from sharing PC-to-Mac. Mac-to-Mac sharing uses software to redirect USB print output from one Mac to the other. PC-to-Mac sharing uses the standard network protocol Samba. CUPS support of Samba printing requires use of a CUPS driver.

I have a similar problem. My mother has a MacBook and she got a Canon MP210 printer. I downloaded the printer off of the CD that came with the printer, but when adding a printer the driver is not found (this is for a USB connection to the printer). So I tried downloading the driver from Canon's site, same deal. So I removed the Canon directory and emptied the Trash and re-installed, restarted, and still same deal. So I tried her MacBook with my Canon MP160, and same deal. I do not have this problem with my MacBook Pro. He laptop seems incapable of recognizing the driver.

Try running the Reset Printing System. This can be located in the Printer Setup Utility menu. This will delete the printers from the PSU Printer List and reset cups (the core printing system in OS X). I would then delete the contents of the Canon/BJPrinters folder and delete the Canon MPxxx.pkg packages from the /Libary/Receipts folder. Then empty the Trash, restart the Mac and run the Canon driver installer for the MP210 again, but this time making sure the MP210 is not connected to the Mac. Once the driver installation is complete, connect the MP210 to the Mac and turn its power on. If the software installed correctly, you should find the printer showing in the Printer List without you having to add it. If it is not present, try adding it by selecting it from the Default Browser view. Note that the Print Using menu should automatically change to Canon IJ Printer.

It did not work. There is a problem during the install. The last stage of the install, "Finishing Installation / Running Canon IJ Printer Driver Installer script" takes about 20 minutes (though it claims it will take less than a minute), though this does not happen on my MacBookPro. Any ideas on why the installer script would have such a problem?

Hi

I have a similar problem with the canon drivers.

I bought a macbook pro 2.2 ghz 3 weeks ago. I was waiting for my leopard upgrade disks and new eizo monitor to arrive before hooking everything up and installing software etc.

I decided not to install leopard since some software i have won't run on it so I'm running 10.4.10 on the MBP in the meantime. I also have a 2nd gen imac G5 also on 10.4.10.

I was running my canon i9950 successfully on my imac via the firewire 400 port. I was using the up to date drivers from canon. I decided to hook the i9950 to the MBP and have my other printer for the imac. Unfortunately I can't seem to get the i9950 to work through the firewire 400 port on the MBP even with up to date printer drivers installed.

I can successfully use the i9950 via a USB hub but the MBP won't pick it up either directly via the built in firewire 400 port or via a kensington firewire hub. I don't believe there is anything wrong with the actual firewire 400 port as I've been able to successfully hook up a lacie d2 quadra external drive and copy files over.

I haven't contacted Apple support yet as it is a Sunday here in sunny New Zealand and they are not available.

Does anyone have any suggestions on things to try? (Also posted in the MacBook Pro forum)

Cheers
Helldog

I found how to fix the problem, at least on my system. I used the Disk Utility (in /Applications/Utilities) and fixed the broken permissions, then re-installed the printer driver and it finally works.

According to the FAQ's for the i9950 on the Canon AU web site, there is a problem using the OS X 10.4 preinstalled v4.1.5 driver on Intel Mac's with FireWire connections. The fix is to download the driver from the Canon web site.

I've tried that and it still doesn't work. I interpreted that FAQ as meaning you can't use firewire at all. I'll try both Apple support and Canon over the next couple of days and see if I can get a resolution to this. If not then I'll have to stick with USB.

Cheers
Helldog

Please do a search for "Canon network" in the upper right of the forum.

The driver is not a network driver, it is a usb driver. You might want to try downloading drivers from:

http://www.printfab.net