Printing to Konica Bizhub c550 from Snow Leopard

My business has a Konica c550 for our printer and I have installed SL on my laptop to begin testing compatibility issues. The first and major issue I have found is that printing to our c550 is possible using the generic ps drivers, but that gives no access to any of our printer features. Although Konica has not posted any updates for their printer drivers, I have installed the previous drivers for 10.5 but when I get to the print screen, the program from which I am printing just crashes.

Does anyone know a work around, or has anyone solved this problem all together? I found several topics concerning other Konica printers, but none have solved my problem as of this time.

I really would love to get this issue resolved so I can begin the upgrade to all our machines to SL. Thanks!

MacBook Pro 2.5, Mac OS X (10.6.1)

Posted on Nov 3, 2009 10:53 AM

18 replies

Dec 4, 2009 4:19 PM in response to delayedmusic

delayedmusic wrote:
Also, please excuse my ignorance, but this is from Konica's website... what does it mean?

"3 = Mac OS 9 PPD can be used in Mac OS X 10.6 with no problems."

The OS 9 PPD does not contain any information about -or direct the printing system to use- the problematic PDEs (Printer Description Extensions) or CUPS filters needed to use the PDEs. You may lose some functionality, but the OS 9 PPD should at least contain the basic printer options.

Matt

delayedmusic Author

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Dec 9, 2009 3:26 PM in response to byDuality

I wanted to let everyone know that I have tested the 10.4 driver and so far it seems to be working fine with 10.6.2.

I tested the Konica c550 bizhub with my MacBook pro 10.6.2 OS and haven't had any issues yet. Hope this helps.

delayedmusic Author

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Feb 5, 2010 9:14 AM in response to delayedmusic

Konica has posted an updated driver ahead of schedule... way to go everyone writing them and demanding support now!

http://onyxftp.mykonicaminolta.com/download/SearchResults.aspx?productname=c550

Mac is about half way down!

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