Anyone using a Canon Selphy printer with Lion?

What helped me out just now with a CANON SELPHY CP510 was the "Gutenprint" driver package !

Just google for it... its even available in the Apple Support Download section ... worked really easy like any standard installation ! 🙂

Hello,

The "copy the file on a memory card" is an answer I could go for...

But, I have never found a way to make this work.

When I drop JPG photos on a SD card, the printer (CP710 or CP800) refuse to read them.

Anyone could help me on this one? Is there a precise coding to apply?

Thank you.

following on from the posts indicating that Canon may be updating dirvers for the Selphy ES2 (amongst others) Ihave emailed them to enquire and below is their reply:

"

Thank you for your request and for contacting Canon.
We are sorry to read that you are not satisfied with the fact that there is no updated driver for your Canon product.
To explain this lack of availability we would like to provide you with some additional information regarding Canon's policy towards the provision of drivers for new operating systems.
At the time of launch of a new product, Canon generally provides drivers so that the product in question will operate on all existing and known future planned operating systems.
When the launch of a new operating system is announced, Canon reviews the existing product range to see which of these products can be considered for the provision of compatible drivers.
There are many different factors that may influence this decision. These can include (but are not limited to) such factors as the technical compatibility between the new operating system and the Canon product, the cost of driver development, the cost of supporting utility software product updates, the issue of certification of the developed driver by the operating system in question, the expected lifetime of the Canon product and costs associated with quality assurance.
Canon respects the right of its customers to decide to upgrade their operating systems and we attempt to make it clear at the time of purchase which products will function on which operating system.
Furthermore, Canon always advises its customers to check the compatibility of their associated Canon products prior to the upgrade of an operating system. To this purpose, our consumer helpdesk staff are always available to assist customers with such enquiries.
We hope that the information above offers enough explanations with regards to the unavailability of the updated driver that you need.
Once again, thank you for having provided feedback on this matter. We appreciate the time and effort it has taken you to do so. Yours sincerely,
TOMAS JANCanon Services & Support

So that's that then. No support for faithful customers...

I have tried Guttenprint which apparently has support for the ES2 (although it is not available in the driver list when setting hte printer up) but i cant seem to get this working.

I do have a work around though - not ideal but is working for me I am using VMware to set up a virtual windows 7 machine on my MBP (I need to use ACT! for my work which has no OSX support) and then use the windows drivers to run the printer. I am also using Fingerprint which is a neat app that lets you print direct to the printer from your idevice. Its not ideal but at least I can now use the printer...

It is encouraging to see how many users have been well-served by gutenprint 5.2.9, even though some critical items, such as the intelligent spooler, are not yet released (only in CVS code). That would explain why some models still do not work.

I have another request: if possible, can users please post the deviceid of the printer. I've recently discovered this should be added to the printer definitions, and one can only really get it from the printer hardware itself.

In this thread, several users have posted the deviceids (IEEE 1284 device ID), it looks something like this (here from page 13 of the thread, for the ES1):

Many thanks,

Gernot Hassenpflug

Any news about Gutenprint 5.3.0 release date?

panjan,

I have no idea whether the next release will be called 5.2.10 or 5.3.0, I presume 5.2.10.

My wish is to get all the device IDs right first, that way automatic detection can take place.

So it may be a while still, depending on how quickly this information is forthcoming from users or other distributions (who may have patched gutenprint with the information as reported by their users).

Regards,

Gernot

Genrot, thanks for your message. here are the details from my ES2

Phil

Canon SELPHY ES2:

Product ID: 0x3185

Vendor ID: 0x04a9 (Canon Inc.)

Version: 0.01

Serial Number: CBEE7449DA6F481187227D822F4843B9

Speed: Up to 12 Mb/sec

Manufacturer: Canon Inc.

Location ID: 0x06200000 / 3

Current Available (mA): 500

Current Required (mA): 2

1284 Device ID: MFG:Canon;CMD:Raster3;MDL:ES2;CLS:PRINTER;DES:Canon SELPHY ES2;VER:1.00;

Hope this helps! Thank you. -Yves

Canon SELPHY CP710 :

Identifiant du produit: 0x3127

Identifiant du fournisseur: 0x04a9 (Canon Inc.)

Version: 0.01

Vitesse: Jusqu’à 12 Mb/s

Fabricant: Canon Inc.

Identifiant de l’emplacement: 0x06200000 / 4

Courant disponible (mA): 500

Courant requis (mA): 2

ID du périphérique 1284: MFG:Canon;CMD:Raster3;MDL:CP710;CLS:PRINTER;DES:Canon CP710;VER:1.00;

Hello,

Thank you very much for posting some of the IEEE1284 device IDs for the SELPHY series.

The gutenprint project, as many of you already know, at least as far as Canon products goes---my responsibility---mostly works on reverse engineering printjobs from Windows printer drivers, without access to the actual printers. So these hardware-reported IDs are difficult to obtain for me.

I'm in the process of looking at the patched gutenprint releases of various linux distributions, where in many cases more IEEE1284 device IDs are present, after having been reported by users. Also the Openprinting website may have some information. Still, for SELPHY devices there is a huge gap, since a) we only added SELPHY support very recently, and b) we did not think of testing for these device IDs before either. Many lost opportunities :-(

So, to summarize. We still lack USB IDs for the following printer models:

CP520

CP790

And we lack IEEE1284 device IDs for the following models:

ES20

ES3

ES30

ES40

CP-10

CP-100

CP-200

CP-300

CP-330

CP400

CP500

CP510

CP520

CP530

CP600

CP720

CP730

CP740

CP750

CP760

CP770

CP780

CP790

CP800

CP810

CP900

Any help in filling the gaps would be most appreciated.

Best regards from Tokyo,

Gernot Hassenpflug

Canon SELPHY CP510:

Product ID: 0x3128

Vendor ID: 0x04a9 (Canon Inc.)

Version: 0.01

Speed: Up to 12 Mb/sec

Manufacturer: Canon Inc.

Location ID: 0x1a123000 / 9

Current Available (mA): 500

Current Required (mA): 2

1284 Device ID: MFG:Canon;CMD:Raster3;MDL:CP510;CLS:PRINTER;DES:Canon CP510;VER:1.00;

Canon SELPHY CP800:

Product ID: 0x3214

Vendor ID: 0x04a9 (Canon Inc.)

Version: 0.01

Serial Number: DW01120200000802

Speed: Up to 12 Mb/sec

Manufacturer: Canon Inc.

Location ID: 0xfa142000 / 6

Current Available (mA): 500

Current Required (mA): 2

1284 Device ID: MFG:Canon;CMD:Raster3;MDL:CP800;CLS:PRINTER;DES:Canon CP800;VER:1.00;

Canon SELPHY CP750:

Product ID: 0x3170

Vendor ID: 0x04a9 (Canon Inc.)

Version: 0.01

Serial Number: G207052400001616

Speed: Up to 12 Mb/sec

Manufacturer: Canon Inc.

Location ID: 0xfa142000 / 6

Current Available (mA): 500

Current Required (mA): 2

1284 Device ID: MFG:Canon;CMD:Raster3;MDL:CP750;CLS:PRINTER;DES:Canon CP750;VER:1.00;

Hi I have got a Selphy-CP530 and this is the requested id's

Produkt-ID: 0x31b1

Hersteller-ID: 0x04a9 (Canon Inc.)

Thanks Joerg, but as you see see we already have the USB ID for the CP530. If you can furnish the IEEE1284 ID that would be most helpful.

Canon SELPHY CP760:

Produkt-ID: 0x31ab

Hersteller-ID: 0x04a9 (Canon Inc.)

Version: 0.01

Seriennummer:

Geschwindigkeit: Bis zu 12 MBit/s

Hersteller: Canon Inc.

Standort-ID: 0x14100000 / 1

Verfügbare Stromstärke (mA): 500

Erforderliche Stromstärke (mA): 2

1284 Geräte-ID: MFG:Canon;CMD:Raster3;MDL:CP760;CLS:PRINTER;DES:Canon CP760;VER:1.00;