Anyone using a Canon Selphy printer with Lion?

This is for the Slephy CP800 but the procedure is the same (with appropriate individual model info) for other models:

1. copy unzipped drivers (a whole SELPHYCP folder) to:

/Library/Printers/Canon/ (will need your password)

if there is no "Canon" folder, create it

2. stop CUPS daemon (in the Terminal) :

type: “sudo launchctl stop org.cups.cupsd” (will need your password)

3. edit /Library/Printers/InstalledPrinters.plist

under “<key>InstalledPrinters</key>” add:

“<string>MANUFACTURER:Canon;MODEL:CP800</string>”

“<string>MANUFACTURER:Canon Inc.;MODEL:Canon SELPHY CP800</string>”

under “<key>Manufacturers</key>” add:

"<string>Canon</string>"

"<string>Canon Inc.</string>"

4. edit “/private/etc/cups/printers.conf”, add following at the end:

<Printer Canon_CP800>

UUID urn:uuid:fcee70cc-231a-372c-6b90-c0db9cd16eda

Info Canon CP800

Location Your_Computer_Name_!!!!

MakeModel Canon SELPHY CP800

DeviceURI file:///dev/null

State Idle

StateTime 1326417576

Reason offline-report

Type 36868

Accepting Yes

Shared Yes

JobSheets none none

QuotaPeriod 0

PageLimit 0

KLimit 0

OpPolicy default

ErrorPolicy stop-printer

</Printer>

5. copy this Selphy CP800 PPD file to: /private/etc/cups/ppd

6. start CUPS daemon: “sudo launchctl start org.cups.cupsd”

Done! If you haven't made typo, you should see the printer in the Preferences/Print&Scan. Enjoy... ;o)

Absolutely brilliant with only one problem for me - when I stop the CUPS daemon it automatically restarts again. Printers.conf says in capitals that you should not edit it while cupsd is running, and indeed the permissions do not permit you to edit it - however TextEdit let me create a duplicate and edit that. I then saved this to the desktop, renamed the existing printers.conf to printers.conf.1 (authenticating in the process), then moved the new printers.conf file into the folder (again authenticating). I then stopped and restarted cupsd and everything seems to be running fine, with the CP800 showing in Print & Scan.

The only problem now is that my printer is actually a CP750 - anyone care to upload the appropriate files and details for this model???

I got root account enabled and was making all the changes throught it, including starting and stopping services. That might be a reason... Glad you found the work around...

@mokrofuz

I made exactly all, what you wrote, and i see the printer in the Preferences/Print&Scan,

but when i print, i get an error:

(in german)

Canon SELPHY CP800

Drucker-Öffnungsfehler.: -9781

:-(

I have the sam problem as schroepfer....

Does anyone have the PPD for the CP750 - that's the one thing I am now missing. Without it the printer does start to print, but it fails after passing the paper through the printer.

Really!? I am looking forward it very much!!!~

suemac1 wrote:

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

Hi,

I just translated the text in English on the same post :

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

In makrofuz's post and translation i miss the last point:

8 - Launch ONYX in order to clean all rights and autorisations ther restart the Macintosh.

?

i repaired the permissions and:

nothing works!

After sending a picture to the printer, i get this error again:

Drucker-Öffnungsfehler.: -9781

Thanks a lot mokrofuz, I follow your istructions and at the end of the operation my Selphy cp800 works.

I've found some problems to found and write in private folder but with Coda I succed!

It's unbelivebale that Canon don't make new drivers, if is so simple make solution!

Thanks!!!

hei alexdepri, that your cp800 really2 works? i follow that istructions too. my selphy "application" works, but it dosnt wont to print. after final step at "selphy apps" (1.Simple print 2.choose image 3.Print) after i click the print button the message come up and say "Printing has stopped" and if i open printer queue it say STATUS ERROR.

can you help me?

Job Message: fatal: Printer open failed.: -9781

I had the same problem with the error message : Printer open failed.: -9781

I installed the drivers to an old macbook with Snow Leopard and I copied the differents file to my MacBookPro with Lion and for me it's worked!!!

I've therefore copied from my Snow Leopard installation : the drivers, the ppd file and changed the data into the printers.conf file.

Here is the post modified from mokrofuz with my objects :

This is for the Slephy CP800 but the procedure is the same (with appropriate individual model info) for other models:

1. copy unzipped drivers (a whole SELPHYCP folder) to:

/Library/Printers/Canon/ (will need your password)

if there is no "Canon" folder, create it

2. stop CUPS daemon (in the Terminal) :

type: “sudo launchctl stop org.cups.cupsd” (will need your password)

3. edit /Library/Printers/InstalledPrinters.plist

under “<key>InstalledPrinters</key>” add:

“<string>MANUFACTURER:Canon;MODEL:CP800</string>”

“<string>MANUFACTURER:Canon Inc.;MODEL:Canon SELPHY CP800</string>”

under “<key>Manufacturers</key>” add:

"<string>Canon</string>"

"<string>Canon Inc.</string>"

4. edit “/private/etc/cups/printers.conf”, add following at the end:

<Printer Canon_CP800>

Info Canon CP800

Location YOUR_COMPUTER_NAME

MakeModel Canon SELPHY CP800

DeviceURI file:///dev/null

State Idle

StateTime 1326833815

Type 36868

Product (Canon SELPHY CP800)

Filter application/vnd.cups-raw 0 -

Filter application/pdf 0 /System/Library/Printers/Libraries/PrintJobMgr/Contents/MacOS/PrintJobMgr

Accepting Yes

Shared Yes

JobSheets none none

QuotaPeriod 0

PageLimit 0

KLimit 0

OpPolicy default

ErrorPolicy stop-printer

</Printer>

5. copy this Selphy CP800 PPD file to: /private/etc/cups/ppd

6. start CUPS daemon: “sudo launchctl start org.cups.cupsd”

Done! If you haven't made typo, you should see the printer in the Preferences/Print&Scan. Enjoy... ;o)

I hope this will help you. For me it was the solution. Now, I can use my selphy with Lion !!!

Sorry... my printer starts to work when I copied the files not from the downloads links in the post but from one of my older starter disk with OS 10.6, like dd23.