Canon MX850 Driver for 10.6 - Released on Canon website

Unfortunately I posted to soon 😟

If I added the MX850 by the "more printers" option it install with the old 7.1.1 driver which means all of the options (duplex etc) are not available (they are all struck thru on the print dialog box).

If I went back to the Mac that worked properly the same thing occurred. Only if I selected the MX850 when it appeared in main list of printers to add did it use the correct driver 10.26.0.0.

Deleting everything I could find and reinstalling removed the "more printers" button and did not get the MX850 to appear in the list.

When running the Canon IJ Network tool I was not able to see and select the printer but I was able to register and select it in the Canon IJ Network scan utility and see it in the Canon IJ Network utility.

Well after a wasted three hours I have progressed exactly nowhere.

Any other ideas?

Dear Ken,

Thanks for the info but the devil is in the detail.

I followed your instructions and was certainly able to detect the printer but the IJ Network window now said "Utilities" rather than setup. There was little one could do here other than choose manual or automatic IP configuration.

I did not see an "add" button here. Were you referring to then opening the "print & fax" system preference.

I think I may have found a clue to the source of the problem why the MX850 does not appear in the printer list (with a kind "canonijnetwork" and that is that the canonijnetwork is crashing as soon as this the "+" is pressed in the "print & fax" system preference.

This is the error message in console:

20/9/09 11:22:14 AM com.apple.ReportCrash.Root[7206] 2009-09-20 11:22:14.020 ReportCrash[7206:250b] Saved crash report for canonijnetwork[7230] version ??? (???) to /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/canonijnetwork 2009-09-20-112214localhost.crash

This does not occur on the mac in which the MX850 appears spontaneously in the printer list to add.

The detailed crash report is (perhaps a more clever person can work out the issue):

Process: canonijnetwork [7230]
Path: /Library/Printers/Canon/BJPrinter/Plugins/BJNP/canonijnetwork.bundle/Contents/M acOS/canonijnetwork
Identifier: canonijnetwork
Version: ??? (???)
Code Type: X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process: cups-deviced [7228]

Date/Time: 2009-09-20 11:22:13.913 +1000
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.6.1 (10B504)
Report Version: 6

Exception Type: EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000
Crashed Thread: 4

Application Specific Information:
abort() called

Thread 0: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff8111f9c6 _semwaitsignal + 10
1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff81146786 pthread_join + 844
2 canonijnetwork 0x000000010000396d 0x100000000 + 14701
3 canonijnetwork 0x0000000100004248 0x100000000 + 16968
4 canonijnetwork 0x0000000100001124 0x100000000 + 4388

Thread 1:
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff810fe94a _workqkernreturn + 10
1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff810fed5c pthreadwqthread + 917
2 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff810fe9c5 start_wqthread + 13

Thread 2: Dispatch queue: com.apple.libdispatch-manager
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff810fdb16 kevent + 10
1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff810ffa19 dispatch_mgrinvoke + 154
2 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff810ff6d6 dispatch_queueinvoke + 195
3 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff810ff1f6 dispatch_workerthread2 + 244
4 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff810feb28 pthreadwqthread + 353
5 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff810fe9c5 start_wqthread + 13

Thread 3:
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff810e4d7a mach msgtrap + 10
1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff810e53ed mach_msg + 59
2 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff82a93ce2 __CFRunLoopRun + 2002
3 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff82a9303f CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 575
4 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff82a92dc6 CFRunLoopRun + 70
5 canonijnetwork 0x0000000100002214 0x100000000 + 8724
6 canonijnetwork 0x00000001000038ef 0x100000000 + 14575
7 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff8111df66 pthreadstart + 331
8 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff8111de19 thread_start + 13

Thread 4 Crashed:
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff811581de _semwait_signalnocancel + 10
1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff811580e0 nanosleep$NOCANCEL + 129
2 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff811b4ac6 usleep$NOCANCEL + 57
3 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff811d407c abort + 93
4 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff810eb095 free + 128
5 canonijnetwork 0x00000001000020d2 0x100000000 + 8402
6 canonijnetwork 0x00000001000038dd 0x100000000 + 14557
7 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff8111df66 pthreadstart + 331
8 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff8111de19 thread_start + 13

Thread 5:
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff811289f2 select$DARWIN_EXTSN + 10
1 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff82ab5252 __CFSocketManager + 818
2 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff8111df66 pthreadstart + 331
3 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff8111de19 thread_start + 13

Thread 4 crashed with X86 Thread State (64-bit):
rax: 0x000000000000003c rbx: 0x0000000101880db0 rcx: 0x0000000101880d68 rdx: 0x0000000000000001
rdi: 0x0000000000000c03 rsi: 0x0000000000000000 rbp: 0x0000000101880da0 rsp: 0x0000000101880d68
r8: 0x0000000000000000 r9: 0x0000000000989680 r10: 0x0000000000000001 r11: 0x0000000000000246
r12: 0x0000000000000000 r13: 0x000000010002c000 r14: 0x0000000000000000 r15: 0x0000000073797376
rip: 0x00007fff811581de rfl: 0x0000000000000247 cr2: 0x00007fff7013470c

Binary Images:
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Hello,

I 've called the Canon support Europe today and they told me, that at this time no neccessary 10.6.x compatible version of the network configuration tool exists.

A version for Snow Leopard will maybe follow until end of this week, according to there internal timeline of porting all available drivers to Mac OS 10.6 in 4 works after the offical Snow Leopard release.

So all Mac 10.6 users can only hope, that Canon don't have to much troubles porting this tool

Hi,

I think I found a possible solution to get the MX850 recognized as a network printer by 10.6.1. It works here, after struggeling with the same problems everyone else here was having.

The solution is to add the printer via the CUPS web interface installed on every Mac. Enter the following address into your browser:

http://127.0.0.1:631

Then click on "Adding Printers and Classes". You may have to authenticate using an admin user name and password. Then click on "Find New Printers". It'll take a while before the next page is shown, while CUPS is scanning the network for printers.

On the next page, you'll find a couple of printers the system has found, along with their network URLs. You'll be looking for the one that starts with canonijnetwork://.....

Select it, and you will get a new page, on which you can select the corresponding printer driver. Choose the MX850 driver. The rest is self-explanatory. Once you completed this, the printer will show up in system preferences "Print & Fax" dialog, already added to the list of printers.

Good luck.

Any questions, let me know.

Dear Crytochrome,

Tried your suggestion however it induces the same crash in the canonijnetwork that occurs with the "print & fax" network. This is probably not surprising as CUPS is the standard macintosh printing system.

23/9/09 9:22:37 AM com.apple.ReportCrash.Root[17698] 2009-09-23 09:22:37.371 ReportCrash[17698:1407] Saved crash report for canonijnetwork[17681] version ??? (???) to /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/canonijnetwork 2009-09-23-092237localhost.crash

I just have to work out how to find the cause of the crashing 🙂. I suspect once that is sorted it will all work.

Well it seems that Parallels is definitely the culprit in this problem. No matter what I did with the Parallels network ports canonijnetwork crashed preventing the MX850 appearing in the add printer window in Print & Fax system preference.

I uninstalled Parallels (I left the Desktop settings untouched, which is an option in the uninstaller), restarted my MacBook, booted into a new clean admin user (this step my not be necessary), opened Console to see if the canonijnetwork crashed, open Print & Fax, clicked on the + sign, the window opened and about 15 seconds later the MX850 appeared in the list. I added it and all seems to be good.

So the sequence for success appears to be:

Uninstall Parallels (if you have it installed).

Download latest drivers from Canon
Install the Printer Drivers
Install the scanner Drivers (restart needed)
Install the IJ Network Tool (restart needed)

The IJ Network Tool opens on restart but I am unclear what one is supposed to do here as no printer appeared in the list however you can access the printer network setup via the Canon IJ Printer Utility in /library/printers/canon/utilities. In any case the default settings seem ok (at least for ethernet).

In other words I would try just closing the IJ Network Tool.

Open Print & Fax, click on the "+" and, if the gods are with you, the printer will appear in the list and you can then select it.

For scanning you can select the Bonjour scanner which appears in the above list and in the Canon IJ Network Scan Tool (after first "registering" it within this application). It should be in the menu bar at the top of the screen.

Others have reported that you can then reinstall Parallels.

Hope this helps

Well on my machine I had parallels installed as well and I was able to install the canon network printer through CUPS as described earlier without having to uninstall parallels.

Can I ask what version of Parallels was installed at the time of your successful installation? I didn't have the very latest version of Parallels installed initially.

I'm having the same problem! The driver works fine on my MacBook but on my MacPro the canonijnetwork tool crashes!

canonijnetwork(464,0x102881000) malloc: * error for object 0x73797376: pointer being freed was not allocated

So I cannot add the printer! Hope there will be a update soooooon.

Btw: I have the same crash when I run the canonijnetwork tool which is installed from Apple!

Message was edited by: Robertmtk

Do you have Parallels installed, if so see my post a few posts backs and try that

No I don't use Parallels!

Robertmtk, try creating an new admin user and then restart your machine and log into that user and see if you can add the printer then. Have console open so you can see if the canonijnetwork app is crashing?

Also just to confirm, you have NEVER installed Parallels? Something is making the canonijnetwork app crash.

Have you also done basic housekeeping such as running Onyx or Cocktail (or at least repaired permissions)?

Hi Roger,

At the moment I'm not near my MacPro but I will try this when I'm back in Munich next week. Maybe this will help.

No, I have NEVER installed Parallels. I'm running VMware Fusion. But Fusion is running on my MacBook, too. So I don't think its Fusion?

Yes, I repaired permission more than once but canonijnetwork still crashes on the MacPro 😟

Robert

I was having the same troubles as described here.
I could not print over the network to a Canon MX850, although I could via USB.
I could scan over the network though.
I spent a couple of hours trying to fix the network printing.
I had installed all the latest drivers and software from Canon Australia website before trying.
The problem was, the network printer would never appear in the printers list (the USB one would and the bonjour scanner would), and there was no "Other printers" tab as in Leopard.

Then on 30 Sept 09 I installed "Canon Printer Drivers Update" Version 2.1 from Software Update. I am not sure when this became available but not more than a couple of days I think.

This seemed to solve my problem.
Now when I ran the Canon lJ Network Tool.app from /Library/Printers/Canon/BJPrinter/Utilities
Then selecting "Setup" from the drop down, then "Register Printer" button, then "Cancel". You will get the add printer dialogue.
This time (finally), you get the network printer appearing in the "Default" tab, with kind "canonljnetwork". Select that and add it.

Wait a little bit for the network printer to appear in the default tab. Also those who have not installed the printer as usb first may have to connect via usb first in order to get the "Register Printer" button.

Cheers,
Jason