New OS and OKI Data printers

Try the commands below in Terminal:
sudo chown -R root:admin /Library/Printers/OKI
sudo chown root:wheel /usr/libexec/cups/filter/*

Ed: It has something to do with the intel chipset. You don't really specify in your post but the newer intel chips seem to be the ones that can't read the drivers. On my older Mac Pro 1.1 the old Leopard driver worked fine. On my wife's new iMac 7.1 the old Leopard drivers would not work. A person at Oki contacted me and said that it is because SL no longer allows drivers written in Carbon to be accessed - everything has to be rewritten in Cocoa in order to work in SL. Supposedly Oki is working on a new SL Cocoa driver but the European driver they sent to me worked fine on my wife's iMac. None of the other Leopard drivers worked at all.

hmmm... does that sound a little like voodoo to you? "Drivers written in Carbon are no longer accessible..." but they work on my machine (MPro 8 core, about a year old), so it's not the driver's connection to Carbon or Cocoa, because I have Snow Leopard and they work fine. New chipset... hmmm, I'd be disinclined to believe that because clearly, the driver must have an abstraction layer between itself and the OS - the chipset would not ever be touched directly for something as trivial as a printer driver I'm thinking (ie., you'd not write a printer driver directly in assembly that bypasses the OS, you'd write it to the OS API for talking to printers).

I just wonder if Oki has no clue yet. Given my experience with this beast of a printer, that would not surprise me...

Message was edited by: Ed Purkiss

OK I got my C5500n to work. After contacting OKI they provided the following:
Your driver is listed as not available, but you can download the C5800 driver as it is compatible.

I got my printer to work by reinstalled the printer doing the following:
I down loaded and installed the driver for the C5800
http://my.okidata.com/PP-C5500n.nsf?opendatabase. Select Knowledge Base and select the topic: Snow Leopard 10.6 - GDI Printer Support Information. The link to the new driver for the C5800 is on that page.
Under the Apple icon select system preferences
Under Hardware select Print & Fax
In the print window select +
In the add printer menu select More Printers in the lower left corner
select OKI TCP/IP, enter your printers IP address and C5800 should show up in the Model name menu

I was told by OKI that this driver would not work for USB connections.

I also did the terminal window instruction thing; (but I'm not sure this contributed to the solution)
sudo chown -R root:admin /Library/Printers/OKIDATA
sudo chown root:wheel /usr/libexec/cups/filter/*

Message was edited by: Don.G

Message was edited by: Don.G

David can you send me the driver as well. bgsgfl@gmail.com thank you in advance. I have been having a heck of a time trying to get this printer installed.

Got through to an Oki person today ... one familiar with Snow Leopard. As described above, I could get the driver to install (I have a C9600) but it would not work ... the minute I tried to use it I got a message, "Please reinstall software" or "software not installed correctly" something like that.

Oki person told me simply to reset the printing system ... something about cleaning everything out makes things OK ... this killed all of my printers and "defaulted" the system... then I added the Oki back again (did not need to reinstall the driver) and it worked!

Don't know how many this will apply to, but it worked for me. Good luck!

I have e-mailed the driver to you. Good luck.

You are awesome and your details about how to install them was spot on. Thanks again David. I did a search and there are a lot of folks having the same problem we did, I should do hope that they find there way to this thread. thanks again 😉

David, mind sending the driver my way as well? Thanks a million!

jeremiahrich@gmail.com

It has been sent to your e-mail address. Good luck.

Hi David,

Can you please email me this file as well. nallibhoy@yahoo.com

Thanks a bunch!
Nausheer

David do you maybe have an FTP site you can up load this file to or some other method of delivery? Just asking because you have a lot of folks requesting this file from you.. Again I really appreciate it.

An excellent suggestion and I have done just that.

If anyone is interested in obtaining the European printer driver that I received directly from Oki, you can download it here: http://files.me.com/davidivey/ogbg79

I'm getting a ton of requests to e-mail the file so I've uploaded the file to my iDisk. Everyone enjoy and good luck.

Could you e-mail it to me as well -- I have the exact same issues and couldn't find the file you mentioned on the okidata site. Thanks in advance.

crago@usa.com

The file is posted on-line for anyone who wants it to download. Here is the link:

http://files.me.com/davidivey/ogbg79