CANON LBP 2900

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CANON LBP 2900

I have just bought a canon laser jet printer as above and cannot make it work on my imac. The name of the printer doesn't come up on the list they provide and when i try to print it says 33% complete and then stops without printing anything. Anyone know what to do?

Posted on Nov 29, 2007 3:08 PM

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BDAqua

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Nov 1, 2008 10:32 AM in response to MrVng

Hi Mr Vng,

Hmmm, since now your problem seems different, and the fact that not many helpers look in Solved Topics for people needing help, we should start you a New Topic.

Here's the link if it's hard to find where to do it...

http://discussions.apple.com/post!default.jspa?forumID=756

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BDAqua

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Oct 3, 2009 6:50 PM in response to mykochan

Hello mykochan, and a warm welcome to the forums! 🙂

I think you'd have better luck stating a New Topic over on 10.6 to get he most helpers in on it.

It's quite acceptable, even preferable to start a new topic of your own, it will get more individualized attention, and many more helpers!

It can be hard to sometimes find where to start a New Topic, so here's the link...

http://discussions.apple.com/post!default.jspa?forumID=1344

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BDAqua

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Oct 21, 2009 10:22 AM in response to anderss

Hello anderss, and a warm welcome to the forums! 🙂

If the info in this thread didn't help you get it going, I think you'd have better luck stating a New Topic here to get he most helpers in on it.

It's quite acceptable, even preferable to start a new topic of your own, it will get more individualized attention, and many more helpers!

It can be hard to sometimes find where to start a New Topic, so here's the link...

http://discussions.apple.com/post!default.jspa?forumID=756

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BDAqua

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Dec 9, 2009 12:45 PM in response to risottan

Hello risottan, and a warm welcome to the forums! 🙂

I think you'd have better luck starting a New Topic here to get he most helpers in on it.

It's quite acceptable, even preferable to start a new topic of your own, it will get more individualized attention, and many more helpers!

It can be hard to sometimes find where to start a New Topic, so here's the link...

http://discussions.apple.com/post!default.jspa?forumID=756

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PAHU

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Nov 29, 2007 5:58 PM in response to Tara Jain

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.

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thenez

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Feb 5, 2008 12:40 PM in response to PAHU

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.

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Litachao

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Feb 15, 2008 9:10 AM in response to thenez

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/

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Litachao

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Feb 15, 2008 11:39 AM in response to 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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Feb 25, 2008 2:31 PM in response to armadillo08

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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Stauff__

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Feb 27, 2008 3:37 AM in response to Dexter_HD

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.

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Mar 8, 2008 10:32 AM in response to Stauff__

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 😉.

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Mar 9, 2008 7:46 AM in response to Dexter_HD

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

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Mar 9, 2008 10:25 AM in response to Andy Goundry

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

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Mar 9, 2008 3:51 PM in response to Andy Goundry

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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Mar 24, 2008 1:43 PM in response to Dexter_HD

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!

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