Konica Minolta Printer Driver for MacOS Big Sur

Any word on older printers like the 4690MF? This is our office hub. We'd even be willing to pay for the development of a Big Sur driver for this machine. I've tried generic drivers, GimpPrint, and other sorts of VooDoo, but we really need help on this one if possible.

Thanks!

Thank you for good info!

I saw that one M1-user got a 2020 driver intended for OS X Catalina (driver version 5.10.0) to work with his Bizhub C364. The Bizhub C364 have a controller called IC-414.

I have a Bizhub C558 that I want to use with the new M1-Macbook Pro. After googling it looks like it has the IC-416 controller. Do you think there is a driver that will work with the C558 / IC-416? If not, how long do you think it will take until we have a working driver for the C558 / IC-416 controller?

Thanks in advance!

The IC-416 is the Fiery Controller for the 8-Series, it is a Postscript driver only works on the Fiery, if you are looking for the standard controller for C558, Konica Minolta HQ has released the latest driver for both Intel and M1 chip. However, the driver is not available on the website.

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oh it depends whether you have the fiery controller hardware connected to C558, you can print separately with or without fiery to the MFP. EFI has already released the latest fiery driver to support macOS Big Sur and it supports M1 chip too. Download from the EFI website.

For the magicolor 1680mf and 4690mf, HQ has stopped updating the macOS drivers, the latest drivers support up to macOS 10.14 Mojave, although you may find it works on Catalina because Apple hasn't change the printing architecture, but HQ has not update its compatibility.

Unfortunately, I've gone through a number of drivers with no luck - just "Filter Failed"

Do you happen to know if the 4690MF driver is PCL or Postscript? I've found a number of generic drivers and have PCL 4, 5, 5c, 5e, and a generic color printer with CUPS and PCL. I also have the option to print to the IP address of the printer, so it asks if I want Internet Printing Protocol, HP JetDirect Socket, or LPD. Can you see what type of driver it is, and maybe that will narrow down the choices and I might get lucky!

Are any of the newer printers similar to the 4690MF? If so, maybe the drivers for those might help?

Thanks!

Bob

Hello! I have a problem with the scan function of the Konica Minolta bizhub 308e we use in our office. If I try to make a preview scan using the Image Capture app the scanner fails. To do it, I have to first make a scan from the printer itself and then ask to make the preview in the app in order to make it work. After the preview, the scan works fine.

I am using Mac OS Big Sur on a MacBook Pro early 2015. I tried to update the drivers but the latest version is for Mac OS Catalina and it doesn't seem to solve the problem. Before the update, everything was working well.

Thanks for your help!

Hello,

The bizhub 185 appears to be a GDI printer, which probably will make it difficult to find a suitable generic driver. Typically, generic drivers are used with PCL or PostScript printers. If absolutely necessary, and unless someone else has a better idea, a virtual machine running Windows could possibly be a workaround (at least for some Mac models). bizhub 185 GDI drivers for various Windows versions are available, for example, via konicaminolta.eu .

Hey, today we have a good news for the MacOS 11 Printer Driver. The pagepro series laser printer for MacOS 11 is finally released, it supports bizhub 16/15/12P, pagepro 1590MF / 1580MF / 1550DN / 1500W. However, I'm not sure if it works on other models such as magicolor series as I do not have those discontinued model in our lab. Attached the driver on my dropbox (I'm sure it will be available on the website soon). For the M1 chip, there's a patch you need to install first. So give it a try. The Download link please add https www dropbox.com in the front.

Printer driver:

/s/8niuxifauho6z8s/KBLaserDrivers_4.0.3.dmg?dl=0

M1 Chip patch file:

/s/d3whibn107e6d4m/KBLaserDriversPatch_1.0.0.dmg?dl=0

I have a MacBook Pro running MacOS 11.5 (Big Sur). MXEX asserted that the MacOS 10.15 Catalina drivers work on Big Sur too, but that is not the case with this configuration.

I did have an older Mac mini running MacOS 10.3.6 (High Sierra) and I turned on Printer Sharing there. Then on my MacBook Pro I defined the Shared Printer as the printer to use. This works fine.

Incidentally, I've started shopping around for a replacement to my Konica Minolta magicolor 2530DL printer.

Will it work on the M1 chip some day?

My printer is a Magicolor 1680mf.

Latest printer driver is from 2016, for High Sierra, and doesn’t work in Big Sur with the M1 chip.

Sorry for late reply, we have confirmed from HQ that existing C2060L (IC-603A Controller) MacOS printer driver works on Big Sur for both Intel and M1 chip.

And what about Magicolor 1680mf?