Anyone using a Canon Selphy printer with Lion?

Canon SELPHY ES40:

Product ID: 0x31ee

Vendor ID: 0x04a9 (Canon Inc.)

Version: 0.01

Speed: Up to 12 Mb/sec

Manufacturer: Canon Inc.

Location ID: 0x14200000 / 2

Current Available (mA): 500

Current Required (mA): 2

1284 Device ID: MFG:Canon;CMD:Raster3;MDL:ES40;CLS:PRINTER;DES:Canon SELPHY ES40;VER:1.00;

Hello J.mak,

Many thanks, excellent, I've added the IEEE1284 deviceID to the gutenprint source code.

Now we are still missing the IEEE1284 deviceIDs for the following printers.

I really hope someone will be able to provide at least that for the CP900, seeing as it is the current model.

In this thread, several people already posted the USB ID for some printers, it would be great to get the IEEE1284 ID for those.

For information, the IEEE1284 device ID is used to automatically select the correct driver for a given printer, without user interaction. Users can still elect to use another driver (for example, for printers of a series, like MG3200, they can manually choose a MG3220 or MG3230, etc., which are just aliases for the common MG3200 series).

Missing:

CP520 (USB ID not known either)

CP530

CP740

CP770

CP790 (USB ID not known either)

CP810

CP900

ES20

Any help is very much appreciated.

Regards,

Gernot Hassenpflug

Good Evening Gernot,

Any chance or insight of the development of the next release of gutenprint drivers. My delimma is that I own a Canon Selphy CP600 and I upgraded to a newer mac that runs OS X Mavericks. I know that originally this particular thread dealt with OS X Lion. I updated to the latest gutenprint drivers but sadley CP600 is not on the list. One other question for you, Is it possible to run the CP600 using other Selphy Print drivers?

Thanks for your time.

Hello Kevin,

This is for everyone: I suggest reading the gimp-print developers mailing list, archives here (register to take part):

http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/p_Mailing_Lists.php

I recommend reading the NEWS file in the gutenprint CVS source for the changes from 5.2.9 (there are many!). Online here:

http://gimp-print.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/gimp-print/print/

Or download and unpackage the source, see CVS access here:

http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/p_Download.php

For your question, the intelligent backend is absolutely required for SELPHY series and many other dye-sub printers which are not true USB devices (i.e., the USB communication with standard usb backend does not work). Each printer's USB ID is required in order to determine which sub-model of capabilities should be used to drive the printer. There are about a half-dozen variations in the SELPHY series, so not every printer model is the same. So you will need the latest gutenprint (CVS) which ships with this backend.

The CP600 is the same as the following (the "model" entry in src/xml/printers.xml):

CP-220

CP-330

CP400

CP500 to CP530

CP710 to CP780

Regards,

Gernot Hassenpflug

Gernot,

Thanks for the quick reply. I am a programmer by no means and looked over the links. I am not sure how to even compile a CVS source. I guess I will have to wait until gutenprint 5.10 comes out.

Gernot,

Is there any way you can explain to me how to install the latest gutenprint cvs you mentioned above. I am not knowledgable on how to do this.

Thanks,

Hello Kevin,

No, I'm afraid I cannot. As we've written many times in the mailing list and elsewhere, we don't have anyone with MacOSX experience, so at present we cannot make a release for MacOSX.

Volunteers are very welcome.

Regards,

Gernot Hassenpflug

Hello All,

It’s a bit of work to get it to compile in OSX, and there appears to be a gap in resources to get an installable package made to make it easier. If you are not comfortable with working in a Unix/Linux shell, I would recommend waiting for a package to install. The code is available via CVS, and it needs to be compiled. You need the Apple Xcode developer tools, and a CVS client (which Apple no longer includes in their toolset). That may require a CVS tool port (like macports) or yet another toolset to get CVS to compile or install. I have compiled the code from the CVS, but am not familiar with how to build an installable package. I can hack together a shell script, but am no developer, which makes me a poor candidate to get this done. If I can find an open source toolset to do so, I will be happy to get the latest code compiled and an installer built (no warranty expressed or implied). If I find a way to do this, I will post back to this thread.

Hello again,

I'm afraid I have not found any package building tools that I can figure out what to do with. I'm happy to compile and tarball the files for someone that can build an install package, if it could look at the make files to figure out what goes where. I'll keep looking for something that I can work with.

I will also be more than happy to test out drivers for the Selphy ES40, once they are available. I'm looking forward to being a happy gutenprint user. Transferring photos via SD card to a rather new printer is a pain (in case Canon is listening).

j.mak,

Would you be so kind as to perhaps post the above to messages on the gimp-print mailing list.

Probably I will be answering your message there, initially, as I am trying to find someone with experience of MacOSX packaging, in the absence of which we can maybe hack something together as a pre-release for testing.

Your help is very much appreciated!

Regards,

Gernot Hassenpflug

Gernot,

I will gladly do so. Can you provide a link or page to which I should post them? I've seen a few mailing lists out there, and want to make sure they land in the right place.

Thanks,

Jason

Message was edited by: j.mak - spelling correction

Hello Jason,

The address is:

gimp-print-devel@lists.sourceforge.net

To register, do so from the gutenprint website:

http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/p_Mailing_Lists.php

Regards,

Gernot Hassenpflug

done - subject is:

Mac OSX gutenprint - compiling

j.mak

I have been watching this particular post daily. Just wanted to know if your latest post:

done - subject is:

Mac OSX gutenprint - compiling

Means you have compiled the osx 5.2.10?

Thanks,

Kevin

Kevin,

sorry - I should have been more specific. I have compiled the latest code available via CVS on my mac, and posted the general procedure to the gimp-print-devel mailing list that Gernot requested I use. What I do not have the expertise to do is create a package to make the compiled software portable, so that others can install it. We are hoping that we can get others involved to get a package made to do so. If that happens, I will make sure it is posted here.

Jason