Canon Pixma TS8220 and printer drivers

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Canon Pixma TS8220 and printer drivers

When I go to Canon support for drivers for this printer, I am told that there is not one available or even needed. What has Apple changed? I note that some of the functions, like paper selection and others seem to have been greatly simplified or less choices available. There also seems to be an issue with printing from Photoshop Elements and ColorSync conflicting.

Finally, has there been a major overhaul of the printer drivers in MacOS. I am running 10.14.6, latest update.

I use a late 2012 Mac mini

Posted on Sep 11, 2019 9:35 AM

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Prairie Falcon Author

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Sep 11, 2019 3:16 PM in response to Eau Rouge

I have done some further digging on Canon Help pages. It seems to say that now something called "AirPrint" takes care of all the details. It seems that you can no longer use icc profiles or anything else. You get "generic" settings for photo paper, other paper, and so forth. What it finally boils down to is that you get what Apple and Canon consider "good enough" for most folks. If you are at all fussy about things, you are out of luck! Fortunately, I can live with their "good enough" for most of my purposes. But it is a step backwards, I think. Will be interesting to see what Catalina brings to the table here.

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Eau Rouge

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Sep 11, 2019 11:06 AM in response to Prairie Falcon

It is Canon that provides the drivers and software for its products so you might be better off contacting them or asking in one of their forums.

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Canon Pixma TS8220 and printer drivers

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