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