Canon MF 4680 Network Printer and Snow Leopard woes

Hi there.

The UFR2 v2.00 driver does not support the More Printers > Canon IP (UFRII) for most of the Canon iR and MF devices. Instead, you need to select IP > LPD as you have done.

With regards to selecting LPD, you do need to enter a queue name of LP. A blank queue name can result in no jobs printing.

So I would delete the current queue that you have for the MF4680 and add again selecting:

Protocol > Line Printer Daemon - LPD
Address > IP address of printer
Queue > LP
Print Using > Canon MF4600 Series UFRII LT (UK)

Pahu

Try the "reset printing system" trick mentioned in the document below, the permission fix part in the "reset" should solve this "installed incorrectly" problem.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3771

Hi Matt,

The driver on the Canon Australia web site will show UK English so that is okay. It's just there is also a US English version, which I believe is default to Letter rather than A4 and it supports different models which are not sold outside of the US.

With the message you are getting, the reset that pengtao mentions may work for you. With the Print & Fax pane displayed, move your mouse over the printer list. Then hold down the Control key and click the mouse. This will display Reset printing system. Click this and restart your Mac. Once it has restarted, try adding the network printer queue again.

Pahu

Hi Matt,

The thing we need to check now is that you have a connection to the printer from the 10.6 Mac. Could you open Network Utility and select the Ping tab. Then type in the IP address of the MF and set the number of pings to 4. Then press the Ping button and watch the results. If there is a connection you should get a response to each ping.

Pahu

Hi Matt,

Okay, then there must be something else amiss. I would be inclined to trash the UFR2 folder, which is located in HD > Library > Printers > Canon, and then reinstall the v2.00 driver.

I also have the MF4680 and have tested 10.6 to it, both networked and USB. Note that the UFR2 v2.00 driver is not officially supported on 10.6 but I found it worked, albeit not as well as the same driver did to the larger copier-based imageRUNNER devices. Not that I have made the switch to 10.6, I am still testing it on my old MBP to ensure everything is okay before I change from 10.5.8...

Pahu

I found the UFR2 v2.00 driver while looking for an imageRUNNER driver. Below is a link to another model of Canon iR that lists the same v2 driver.

http://www.canon.com.au/products/multifunctionals/multifunctionaldigital_devices/ir3245drivers.aspx

If you scroll down this page you will see the entry and link. While Canon is quoting 10.6 as supported, no where in the included readme does 10.6 get a mention. However as I said during my testing I found this driver did work on 10.6 for the models listed in the readme, at least the ones we have at work and what I have at home.

Pahu

Hi, I am also a user of MF4680. Can you use the scanning function on OS X platform? The website of Canon said that the scanning function of MF4680 supports Windows only. Is there any thing I can do to make the stuff works on OS X?

Hello and welcome to Apple Discussions.

There is no pull scanning application for this series (there is an MF Scanning application for Mac for the MF4300 series) but you should be able to use the push scanning function of the MF4680 (Send).

The Send function will allow you to scan via SMB to a shared folder on your Mac. If you need instruction for how to configure the MF4680 and your Mac to permit this, then please start a new post as it is not related to this posting.

Pahu