I have a Dell 2135cn color laser printer. The printer works but will not print in color. I am using Lion. Anyone know how to print in color?
iMac, Mac OS X (10.7)
What driver are you using? Have you looked under Printer Features? The dafualt may be to print in Grayscale, and you would have to manually select to print in color.
Thank you. After talking to Dell, who said the printer does not work with Lion, yet, and Apple who said no Dell printers work with Apple, period, - oh, well maybe some do but we can't help you; then I couldn't get the scanning to work, I gave up. Actually the printer seemed to be working but in grayscale. Thanks again.
You can at least get the printer to print in color if you use the pxlmono/pxlcolor drivers from OpenPirnitng.org. Just be sure to add the printer using the "Generic PCL 6/PCL XL Printer Foomatic/pxlcolor (recommended)" driver.
As I recall, when adding a printer using this driver, the default color space is Grayscale. You can go to Printer Features, select color mode, and save it as a Preset. Sorry to say you will have tro rely on Dell for any scanner drivers.
Hello,
I too am having the exact same problem. Cant print in color. As for the scanner, I have never needed a driver to scan from the Printer on the network to a shared folder on a Windows based machine, but after setting up a shared folder on my mac, and setting up the entry in the printers address book, I have been unable to get the scanner to scan directly.
I will be trying the advice above and will update this post with the results. Any other help would be appreciated!
Dell 2135cn Dell printer but not in color.
