Canon ImageClass MF4150

Hello PaHu.

Thanks for the welcome and for the suggestion. Unfortunately I still must be missing something. I believe that I had set up the fax queue correctly but I tried again. The problem is that when I try to fax the OS tells me that there is no fax modem found. When I go the the System Profiler and click on modems I get the message "No information found." I am new to Mac OS so I might be missing something really easy but I remain confused. Any further suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Ed

Hello PaHu,

Thanks again for your quick response. Unfortunately, I have tried what you suggested and have been unsuccessful. I tried it with a PDF in Preview, with a text document in Textedit, and with a new document created in OpenOffice Writer. Either I click Print after the instructions that you gave and the Fax Queue appears in the dock with an exclamation point. If the queue is clicked it tells me that the Printer is currently off line. If I try TextEdit, say, and follow your directions, I get the same message. If, on the other hand, I set up the Print by changing the Print Queue to fax, then use the PDF button to fax the PDF, I get a message that says "No fax modems found." I hope that you can see why I am confused.

Thanks for any advice,

Ed

Hello (again) PaHu,

I have tried your advice again and, for some reason, this time it worked. No more error messages and no more offline printers. Assuming that it continues to work (and I am guardedly optimistic) you have solved the problem. You are either a wizard, a magician, or both. In either case, I am greatly appreciative!

Many thanks,

Ed

Hi PaHu,

Perhaps I am overextending my welcome, but flushed by your success, do you know any way to make the MF4150 scanner work with the MAC? According to Canon that is impossible, but ... .

Thanks again,

Ed

Hello PaHu,

Again, any thanks. I have actually just set up Fusion because I need to run another Windows application on the Mac. I will try to install the drivers for the MF4150 there.

Best regards,

Ed

Hi all,

Thanks to Pahu I got everything working (more or less) in June. As a dutiful Mac convert I upgraded to 10.6 the other day. Of course, 10.6 was confused by the MF4150. I downloaded the v200 driver for the 4350 and that seems to work, so far, for the printer. 10.6 seemed to think that it knew about the fax function of the mf4150 and installed a fax driver. Unfortunately I haven't been able to get that to work. It seems to open a fax queue but I can't find general settings (as before) in the print dialog to be able to input the fax number. I am probably missing something simple, but ... . Any ideas?

Ed

Hi Pahu,

Thanks yet again. You have solved my latest problem.

Ed

Hi All,

Pahu solved my original problems but two new ones have arisen.

First, even though I have the System Preferences for printers locked (in all accounts), somehow or other, there seems to be a frequent proliferation of drivers for the MF 4150. That is, when I complete the printer install, I have a single printer driver set as the default and a single fax driver available. Both seem to work. At some later time, if I try to print, there are a multitude of printer drivers, all labeled (Series 1) and the appropriate one needs to be chosen. If any of the others are chosen, I get an error message. Additionally, the Printer preferences are no longer locked. Second, for some but not all multipage documents the bottoms of pages after the first are garbled and printed with horizontal lines, rather than the appropriate content. The problem is replicable and happens when the particular documents are loaded in either OpenOffice or in MS Word. This also occurred once when printing a web page. Is it the v200 driver? Is it bad luck? Is it ghosts?

Ed