Anyone using a Canon Selphy printer with Lion?

I have sucessfully been using the Gutenprint 3rd party series of drivers on the Selphy CP800 photo printer running OSX Lion (10.7.x):

http://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-print/files/gutenprint-5.2/5.2.7/gutenprint -5.2.7.dmg

. I jumped the gun, as the printer was in a state of "waiting" that never finished, hence I am currently unable to print to this device. Any advice would be much appreciated.

kef1 > could you use a temporary link ? (download). Or send me a link from my website - contact page ( http://www.fusina.net/contact/) Thanx a lot 😉

@TriPPon:

All you wrote, you can read some posts before, in this thread.

Gutenprint does NOT work.

The Gutenprint link mentioned below worked for me on a Canon Selphy CP760 with a Macbook Air running Lion. And I echo the sentiments of those who say this is will be their last Canon purchase. It is ridiculous that they can't support a two-year-old printer.

Hi, could you make a specific list of the steps you followed to use the printer with with you MBA?

Thanks.

BF.

1. I downloaded Gutenprint and ran the installer.

2. Connected the printer to the MBA via USB.

3. I added a printer the usual way (through System Preferences) and selected the Gutenprint version of the Canon Selphy driver.

3. Then I just printed photos from Preview like normal.

Thanks for the quick reply, you must have a special setup og not running lion from fresh install? According to(http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.printing.gimp-print.devel/8764) it is not supposed to be part of the Gutenprint update?

I just did the installe myself, and the printer hangs so it's still an issue for me, but would love to hear more about your system(Lion version, and so on).

Thanks.

Bjørn

There have been a nunber of SELPHY models mentioned in this rather lenghthy thread. There has also been mention of the Gutenprint drivers working with osme models and not working with other models.

The Gutenprint drivers will NOT work with:

Canon SELPHY CP-600 *1

Canon SELPHY CP-720

Canon SELPHY CP-780

Canon SELPHY CP-800

*1 The recent release of Gutenprint 5.2.8-pre1 lists the CP-600 as being supported. This is in error. It should have been dropped from the list. It will not be included in the next release.

The Gutenprint drivers should work with:

Canon SELPHY-CP-740

Canon SELPHY-CP-750

Canon SELPHY-CP-760

Canon SELPHY-CP-770

I just got a Canon Selphy CP800 and had all of the same problems (I am running Lion 10.7.2). I found an old bluetooth usb dongle (really old) and plugged it into the printer. I was able to pair the printer to my mac and can now print by clicking on the bluetooth menu bar item and selecting "Send file...". If you scroll down to "Media" in the window that opens, you'll see an option for "Photos" that even lists the event, album, and faces lists from iPhoto. There is likely a file size limit, but I haven't hit it yet. If you find pictures are being cropped using borderless printing, you can press "Menu" on the printer itself and select "Print Settings" to add a border. To summarize:

1. Plug a bluetooth usb dongle into the printer (I don't know if I was lucky, or if all bluetooth dongles work).
2. Pair the printer with your mac.
3. Click on the bluetooth menu bar item on your mac and select "Send File..."
4. Select the photo (by the file name or by using the media option for photos in the window that opens).
5. Click "Send."

Thanks a lot kef1.

I used the same procedure to install the driver of the CP400 printer and it works fine.

Here is my explanation (in french).

Regards

So what steps are needed to get the Canon Selphy 800 drivers installed on OS X Lion 10.7.2? I see dominikF has uploaded a zip file that will copy the files to the Mac, but there is still some CUPS configuration to be done. kef1 appears to have gotten it to work as he diff'ed the changes in 10.6 and 10.7. What needs to be updated in printers.conf and where can we get the ppd file? I don't see why if it's doable, that Canon can't create a new installer for 10.7.

I have just spoken to canon technical support who has advised me that there will be a release of the new driver for lion at the end of February, 2012. Apparently many voices from the mac world was heard! I was just about to ready to return my newly purchased selphy but will now keep it. I still have snow leopard but will be upgrading when the new driver is released. I am anxious to try out this new produce as I heard good reviews.

Have a great day!

Regards

The link to the explanation how to install SELPHY CP400 drivers on Lion (in french) :

http://forum.macbidouille.com/index.php?s=&showtopic=351961&view=findpost&p=3546 710

Could some one please translate it to English? My french is 'not existing', and Google Translate is way off!

I can see it is supposed to work with: (CP400, CP500, CP510, CP520, CP600, CP710, CP720, CP730, CP740, CP750)

Thanks.