I need a wireless A4 printer to work with Sequoia 15.7.7 on my M3 iMac. It has to have duplex printing plus be able to print to printable discs. No need for scanning capability. can anyone helP/
iMac 24″, macOS 15.7
Most of the Epson printers meet your requirements. The Epson XP-8700 is a good example. The XP-980 is a step up, being a wide format printer.
Servant of Cats wrote:
Whatever printer you get, make sure that it supports AirPrint (About AirPrint - Apple Support). Without that, you are dependent on the kindness of the manufacturer's heart to update printer drivers, as Apple releases new versions of macOS.
While true, Airprint performance can be iffy and there are limitations in Airprint - often features that the manufacturer's driver provides but Airprint doesn't. AFAIK all the current Epson models are supported with Epson drivers. If the OP needs to do duplex printing and direct-to-disc printing then the Epson drivers would be preferable, probably even necessary.
A heads up, also. For quite some time downloads from the Epson website have not been working with Firefox. If you need to manually download Epson drivers, use Safari.
Raf51 wrote:
Servant of Cats: Thanks for your reply. My experience with AirPrint is mixed so far. It doesn't seem to support duplex nor disc printing. Perhaps I'm missing something?
I have an old Canon all-in-one printer for which there are no Sequoia drivers hooked up via USB. Pretty sure that AirPrint is the only reason that I'm able to print to it from this Mac.
I do two-sided (duplex) printing fairly often. Haven't printed the labels of any printable yet - but the option seems to be there, if one clicks on the "(i)" next to "Quality & Media", and then selects an appropriate "Media type".
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That's why I've relied on manufacturers drivers. My current machine is a Canon Pixma iP7250, but it keeps mucking me about. Maybe it doesn't do well with AirPrint which seems to take over. I suspect my wife's printing (wirelessly) from her iPad which could default to AirPrint, but can't prove that.
Canon Support – Canon PIXMA iP7250 – Drivers
That printer may have drivers for recent versions of macOS now. But if the day comes when Canon stops updating the printer driver for new versions of macOS - the way they already have stopped updating drivers for older Canon printers - it may be very helpful that the option to switch to AirPrint is there.
Whatever printer you get, make sure that it supports AirPrint (About AirPrint - Apple Support). Without that, you are dependent on the kindness of the manufacturer's heart to update printer drivers, as Apple releases new versions of macOS.
Servant of Cats: Thanks for your reply. My experience with AirPrint is mixed so far. It doesn't seem to support duplex nor disc printing. Perhaps I'm missing something?
That's why I've relied on manufacturers drivers. My current machine is a Canon Pixma iP7250, but it keeps mucking me about. Maybe it doesn't do well with AirPrint which seems to take over. I suspect my wife's printing (wirelessly) from her iPad which could default to AirPrint, but can't prove that.
That screenshot shows the same details as I get using a Canon driver. It works a treat. I don't understand the details about drivers but I have 'two' printers available in the print dialogue box. One I've renamed as 'disc', the other 'double-sided' (when it works). Neither 'printer' offers both duplex and disc printing. Note: I only have the one physical printer.
I just looked at the page for Canon drivers for my printer. I have that latest driver 16.91.0.0
Since I have the options for disc or double-sided printing, I assume the disc printing uses an older driver still lurking in the iMac?
Martin R - your comments gell with my gut feeling about AirPrint and the benefits, if not the absolute necessity, of using manufacturer's drivers. I'm no expert, but AirPrint seems a bit 'minimal'. I haven't been able to make it do what I want my printer for - double-sided copies.
I wish Apple would get organised and produce a set of printers that provide a full set of capabilities: duplex printing, print-to-disc, photo printing would do nicely. After all, we are over a quarter of the way through the 21st century …
MartinR: Thank you for your reply. I'll see if It supports Duplex and Disc printing.
Raf51 wrote:
MartinR: Thank you for your reply. I'll see if It supports Duplex and Disc printing.
They both do. Just look at the spec pages I linked.
Wireless A4 printer for M3 iMac/Sequoia, duplex, disc print
