Snow Leopard and Canon MX850

HI,

Try here.

Mac OS X v10.6: Printer and scanner software



And here.

Mac 101 - Printing for v10.6









Carolyn 🙂

It works fine for me. Try resetting the printing system and readding the printer.

Hi there,

You don't add the printer via Advanced - HTTP. This is why it's not working. For the networked MX & MP series, you still add the printer via the Default view. You will see that the 850 appears first as a Bonjour Scanner, but if you wait you will see another 850 appear, this one showing 'canonijnetwork' in the Kind column. Select this one, the Print Using menu will change to the MX850 and then click Add. This queue should now get you printing.

Pahu

Do you have Parallels installed on your Mac? This application can stop the printer from appearing in the Add Printer > Default view.

Regarding the IJ Network Scanner and the exclamation, this would suggest you don't have the MX850 scanner driver installed on the Mac.

Or perhaps there is a firewall problem. Try turning your firewall off and see if you can connect.

@PAHU

I have installed Parallels and have the same problem that my WLAN printer ( Lexmark X975 ) is not shown in the "add printer" view.


What do I have to do ? Deinstalling Parallels is too hard to do!


Best regards
Gregor

And I still have 4.0 - I´ll update to 5.0 and will see if there is any difference. That´s strange but I read some comments concerning that issue - for some it worked.

Best regards
Gregor

You should not have to uninstall Parallels. Version 5 was meant to resolve the blocking of the network printer. Also, if you still had Parallels 4, the v10.26.2 driver for the MX850 was meant to resolve the issue with the printer not being seen.

So, here is a link to the v10.26.2.0 driver.

http://support-au.canon.com.au/contents/AU/EN/0100105002.html

Note that the printer and scanner are both added via the Default view. If neither of them is appearing in the Default view, then there is a Terminal command that you can run that will stop the Parallels network services. This will save you having to uninstall and will help us identify if Parallels is a cause.

This is the command you can enter into Terminal.

sudo launchctl stop com.parallels.desktop.launchdaemon

you will be prompted for your password. Enter this and then exit Terminal. Now open Print & Fax, click Add and select Default. Does the MX850 appear as a Bonjour Scanner or printer?

Message was edited by: PAHU

Not really sure what you can do from here. I don't have Parallels so I have never encountered this issue.

Canon has posted a MP Driver v1.0 for Network. The description doesn't give too many clues as to what it does but it might be worth trying.

As a last step I would uninstall Parallels, just to see if it is the culprit. If the printer reappears with Parallels removed then at least you have an answer as to why this was not working for you.

Pahu