Anyone using a Canon Selphy printer with Lion?

Hello,

Yesterday, I printed +200 photos with the Gutenprint driver and Lightroom.

That was in a promotional event. At a point, I had 12 printing jobs waiting in the cue.

No problem, thank you to Guteprint team! 🙂

One question: for some reason, I do not manage to print on the full page. I checked all the settings, made many tests... no way.

Am I doing something wrong ?

CP710, Gutenprint 5.2.9, Lightroom 4.4, OS X 10.8.3

Thank you, -Yves.

Hi ygab01,

Speaking only for gutenprint, if you print for example using the printing options displayed for the printer, then you need to check the "borderless" option. This is what activates the so-called "full-bleed". It enlarges the image slightly so that it goes over the physical borders of the media.

However, this only works if the image is already in the right proportions for the media. If one or both dimensions of the image are not large enough, you will still get visible white areas, even though the borders (the part that would otherwise always be left unprintable) have been removed.

I would suggest you test whether there is any different in printing when you check and uncheck the "borderless" option. You may find that the application is sending image data with white borders as part of the image, for example.

HTH,

Gernot Hassenpflug

IEEE1284 device ID for Canon Selphy CP400

1284 Device ID: MFG:Canon;CMD:Raster3;MDL:CP400;CLS:PRINTER;DES:Canon CP400;VER:1.00;

cheers dave

Hi Gernot,

Thank you for this advice.

I didn't pay attention to the proportion matter in Lightroom.

Today, I printed a test with Photoshop, once the image is at the wright size, it prints full-bleed.

For some reason, I have the feeling that non proportional pictures could be printed full-bleed (knowing that it crops a part) when using the Canon driver. May I am wrong... :-)

-Yves.

Hello Yves,

CUPS should offer the default option "Shrink (print the whole page)". This option shrinks (if necessary) a large image to fit inside the borders of the page.

You can try also:

1. Crop (preserve dimensions)

This prints at the size of the image, and if the image is larger than the (bordered) page, part of it is cut off.

2. Expand (use maximum page area)

This should enlarge the image to the borders of the page (probably only in one dimension unless proportions are already correct for the media size).

If you combine one of the above with the "Borderless" option, you can get the effect you wish, I think, depending on the original size and proportions of the image.

E.g., if the image is smaller than the bordered page area, use "Expand". If it is larger than the bordered page area, use "Crop" or "Shrink".

Hi Matt,

did you find a solution to your problem?

thank you

Luca

Canon SELPHY CP600:

Product ID: 0x310b

Vendor ID: 0x04a9 (Canon Inc.)

Version: 0.01

Speed: Up to 12 Mb/sec

Manufacturer: Canon Inc.

Location ID: 0xfa130000 / 6

Current Available (mA): 500

Current Required (mA): 2

1284 Device ID: MFG:Canon;CMD:Raster3;MDL:CP600;CLS:PRINTER;DES:Canon CP600;VER:1.00;

Hello rogware,

Many thanks for the CP600 information.

Can you or someone else tell me how you obtain this 1284 Device ID information under MacOSX? On linux there is a script intended to obtain the information, but it does not output the complete information (unless hacked by me), only MFG, CMD and MDL. So I am curious what MacOSX has.... is it part of CUPS, or some MacOSX-specific utility?

Couldn't be simpler - open System Information, click on USB in the left hand column, then click on the entry for the Canon device in the right hand pane and the information will be displayed below.

Just highlight the information and (Cmd C) copy it. Then you can paste it wherever you want.

This information is formatted in the way you see in some of the posts above, such as the one from rogware.

Thank you ncollingridge,

That is impressive functionality currently still missing in linux.

Note: On linux system the Python script at /usr/share/system-config-printer/check-device-ids.py

is intended to obtain this information, but as I mentioned the output is minimal (although the script obtains all the information it only outputs a portion of it).

Dont know if you have this one already but here it comes anyway.

Canon SELPHY CP780:

Product ID: 0x31dd

Vendor ID: 0x04a9 (Canon Inc.)

Version: 0.01

Serial Number: GE00041300002172

Speed: Up to 12 Mb/sec

Manufacturer: Canon Inc.

Location ID: 0x06200000 / 4

Current Available (mA): 500

Current Required (mA): 2

1284 Device ID: MFG:Canon;CMD:Raster3;MDL:CP780;CLS:PRINTER;DES:Canon CP780;VER:1.00;

the best I could come up with was to save pictures to a flash drive then print from the flash drive...saved a lot of aggravation -

the best I could come up with was to save pictures to a flash drive then print from the flash drive...saved a lot of aggravation

Yes, that's what I have to do too.

I have managed to get my Selphy ES1 working with this driver... Could work with others or maybe give the site a search?

Try using this driver making sure you use the ES3 version (not Gutenprint version) worked for me getting my Selphy ES1 running with iMac 20 inch 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo with Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5

http://canoncanada.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/37826/~/canon-selphy-es- series-printer-driver-6.0-for-mac-os-x-10.7

Need to download then install.

Good luck!

hi everybody, i´m not shure if i missed anything, but i still need a driver for my selphy es1. it´s not running and i have no idea how to change that. i´m working with os 10.8.5 . until now i could not find my printer in any list. would be nice, if anyone could tell me how to dot it.