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Q: Reganining (Wireless) Network Scanning after 10.8.2 update

Up to 10.8 I hab no issues printing and scanning wirelessly through my Canon MP620 whoch is connected directly to my Wireless network. They showed up as two devices (Printer / Scanner) in my System Preferences.

 

However, after updating to 10.8.2 - though the scanner was still there in the system prefs - it just didn't wotk anymore and would not be found.

the scanner worked well, since when connected directly to the Mac it showed up immediately and worked fine.

 

I tried a couple of things that didn't help before I came across the solution.

 

First, what didn't work:

- updating drivers through software update

- updating drivers through CANON

- reconfiguring the Printer/Scanner through Canon LJ Network Tool (Version 4.0)

- Restarting, rebooting machine, Printer etc.

 

What did help finally: Restarting printer system (right-click in print/scan prefs) and reboot.

 

Now the printer as well as the scanner showed up and could be re-added.

 

OPne more glitch I had to overcome was that the scanner was detected, yet it gave me a communication error that went away, after I printed the first page.

 

Now, everything works as expected.

 

Since there is a lot of discussions about this going on I thought I'd share this.

MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2009), Mac OS X (10.7.3), SSD

Posted on Dec 29, 2012 6:36 AM

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Q: Reganining (Wireless) Network Scanning after 10.8.2 update

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  • by iphone_fun,

    iphone_fun iphone_fun Jan 14, 2016 3:09 PM in response to Wonko_The_sane
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    Jan 14, 2016 3:09 PM in response to Wonko_The_sane

    I'm having the same issue with OSX 10.11.2 with only the printer available and scanner not showing up via wifi (both show up for USB).  I gave this a try and unfortunately it did not work for me, but thanks for posting the idea to try!

     

    -Mike

  • by Wonko_The_sane,

    Wonko_The_sane Wonko_The_sane Jan 14, 2016 3:18 PM in response to iphone_fun
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    Jan 14, 2016 3:18 PM in response to iphone_fun

    I have to say that I ran into the same issue after installing El Cap. However, the issue occurred only on one of my two machines. The one that didn't work would print but not scan at all. I ended up copying the full canon printer driver folder from the working machine and this fixed the issue. what exactly went Bing in that machine I cannot say, but the fox that worked with 10.8.x obviously didn't help here.