How to set-up printers in Snow Leopard???

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How to set-up printers in Snow Leopard???

I installed Snow Leopard (10.6) on one of my full backup external La Cie Hard Drives. It took about an hour to install-- and everything seems fine-- I enjoy the slider in windows to get icons to 512 size.

OK BUT how to set-up my ethernet connected Apple LaserWriter 12/640PS (about 1997 vintage) and my Canon Pixma i4000R printers? They work GREAT in Leopard 10.5.8 - but I can't even find them in the Print/Fax System Preference when I start in Snow Leopard. And I don't know where to go nor what to do to find the drivers etc. etc. etc. I choose to install ALL printer drivers when I did the set-up of SL.

It was kinda automatic with 10.5 - but with 10.6 - just nothing. It finds my Canon SCANNER- but no printers...

Thanks for any comments here -- glad I've kept leopard on my internal MacBook HD!

Steve

MacBook 2GHz (2006) PBG4-12" G4733 eMac (2005), Mac OS X (10.5.7), MacOnly since 1989 with a Mac SE running 6.0.4

Posted on Sep 8, 2009 1:11 PM

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Answer 1

Sep 8, 2009 1:35 PM in response to Stephen Schulte2

Stephen Schulte2 wrote:
I installed Snow Leopard (10.6) on one of my full backup external La Cie Hard Drives. It took about an hour to install-- and everything seems fine-- I enjoy the slider in windows to get icons to 512 size.

OK BUT how to set-up my ethernet connected Apple LaserWriter 12/640PS

That's an AppleTalk device. You would need to set it to use TCP/IP via DHCP. See <http://support.apple.com/kb/TA21790?viewlocale=en_US> and similar. Good luck.

(about 1997 vintage) and my Canon Pixma i4000R printers?

Canon released a driver for that device in June this year. I'd see if that fixes your problem, or if it doesn't, I'd contact Canon tech support.

They work GREAT in Leopard 10.5.8 - but I can't even find them in the Print/Fax System Preference when I start in Snow Leopard. And I don't know where to go nor what to do to find the drivers etc. etc. etc. I choose to install ALL printer drivers when I did the set-up of SL.

It was kinda automatic with 10.5 - but with 10.6 - just nothing. It finds my Canon SCANNER- but no printers...

Thanks for any comments here -- glad I've kept leopard on my internal MacBook HD!

Steve

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Answer 2

Sep 8, 2009 1:53 PM in response to Charles Dyer

Thanks for the fast reply!

Couple of comments / questions:

1. The AppleWriter 12/640PS works perfectly in 10.5.8 Leopard. I can print to it from my eMac, my MacBook, my PowerBook G4 - not a problem. It's been set-up as TCP/IP for years I think. So why can't I even find this in Snow Leopard?

2. Canon iP4000R: I see that there is a driver June 2009 and another 7 Sept 2009 - hey, that's yesterday. I downloaded both, but my real question is how to set-up printer drivers with Snow Leopard? It doesn't seem to find any files or anything like Leopard did (and Panther and Tiger etc.)

By the way, where are printer drivers actually stored so that I can check to see if they are there and what version is there? WAIT I found in Users/myname/Library/Printers what seems to be the drivers for printers I use. The canon has one with version 4.5; another is there version 6.0.3...

With the new drivers I downloaded, I should likely test them first on 10.5 (on a copy of my Hard Drive made with SuperDuper!- I'm running out of Hard Drives here)--

Any and all comments welcome. Thank you SuperDuper!

And thanks Charles Dyer!

Steve

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Answer 3

Sep 9, 2009 12:21 PM in response to Charles Dyer

Charles-- Got the Canon to work-- actually a new driver on 7 Sept 2009! Still don't understand WHY it worked, but suddenly it found the Canon.

As to the LaserWriter-- it's not that different (i.e. it's an ethernet connection!)- but even with the Apple Driver it won't print. (Prints perfectly in 10.5.8 Leopard!)--

I've studied the article to which you referred me; but must admit I really don't know what to do in the somewhat limited choice in the 10.6 Print SetUp boxes.

Appreciate it if anyone actually has a (wonderful!) LaserWriter 12/640PS and has been successful in printing with it in 10.6

Thanks again---

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Answer 4

Aug 1, 2010 11:41 PM in response to Stephen Schulte2

OK I've set-up the printers; now the MP640 has problems with the network setting but I'll work on that this week.

08:41 Monday 2 August 2010

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