Canon Pixma MG5450 Wireless Printer

did you install their latests driver for osx?

http://www.usa.canon.com/cusa/consumer/products/printers_multifunction/photo_all _in_one_inkjet_printers/pixma_mg5420#DriversAndSoftware

sorry no I don't own a canon printer my wifi printer is samsung laser non colour / scanner and xerox machine

it does not work with airprint but samsung have a ios printing app

and it works fine with osx and windows

Hi,

I own a Canon MG5450 and I can confirm the WLAN problems.

The motivation for purchasing that printer model was that I wanted a wireless connectivity to my Desktop PC and my iPad and iPhone. Normally I am working on Mountain Lion (as fall back I have one Lion partition still alive). Both OSX fail to print flawlessly with the MG5450. Sometimes it works, most times not. OSX tells me that the printer connection is lost but tries desperately to reconnect. In some cases the connection is re-established after some minutes - yesterday the first print took about 15 minutes .... and the second try failed completely.

I use the latest drivers and Canon software. The WLAN indicator is blue, telling me that the connection is ok.

Workarounds which I found by trial and error:

- Switch the printer off and a second later on - in 50% that triggers the print job to be executed

- Reconfigure the WLAN connection, even that the blue indicator shows no problem before retyping the access details > works in 30% of the cases, when the first workaround failed

When I print from Windows - no problem at all; works perfectly!!

Thus: Canon has to come out with a properly designed driver as it doesn't work as it should for OSX !!

Unfortunately Canon is a bit lazy for Apple Users. Apple should put more pressure on them and Canon should realize the fast growing OSX market share.

HI there,

i have correctly setup the wifi connection onto the printer, then I could not use the cd provided on a iMac. I downloaded the last drivers and I used the IJ drivers.

NOw I can print and scan, however the recto verso option is not available.

I Am on mountain lion.

if anyone has successfully found the right driver to be used, please share!

good luck

Jeff

I have just spent 4 hours struggling with this and I may have succeeded!

I have a Canon Pixma MG5450 and iMac running 10.7.5. Initially I could not get the printer to find and connect to the Hub (access point - BT Homehub3) using the WPS method. I was able to connect it using the advanced method using a wireless key to sign into the hub - but the printer would not run from the Canon Quick Menu/software loaded from the Canon CD. I could print and scan by finding and adding the printer in System Preferences, but still the Canon Menu would not work - could not find printer. Options for printing set up this way seemed very limited.

I then studied my home hub management and found that WPS was disabled. I enabled it and changed the secuity to WPA & WPA2. From the Home Hub manual I deduced that when using WPS, the WPS button must be pressed for 20 seconds until the lights flash. Armed with this I went through printer set up again, pressed WPS for 20 seconds, lights flashed, pressed OK on the printer - still no result. In desperation I repeated the process but only pressed the WPS button for a few seconds. Bingo it connected and I was able to complete the set up process from the CD and print the test sheet.

Not very scientific and may just be lucky! Hope this helps someone!

I got this advice from Canon UK - it seems to have solved the problem for over a week

Follow the steps described below.

• On the printer display, select Setup and go to Device Settings
• Choose the option LAN Settings and select Other Settings.
• Go to TCP/IP and choose IPv4.
• When a message appears, select Yes.
• Go to IP Address and when the following message appears, select Manual and Yes

On the following screen you will see 12 boxes with the printer’s IP address.

• Simply click on the OK button to confirm the screen.
• Do so for all 3 screens that will appear, simply acknowledge them by pressing OK until the printer states that it is processing.
• Once the printer is , you see the IPv4/IPv6 screen.
• Turn the printer off and back on.

Now the printer is set with a static network address, which should eliminate the disconnection issue.

I had the same problem after upgrading to OSX 10.10. I could print but could not scan.

After much gnashing of teeth, I upgraded the firmware on the printer from 1.7 to 2.0 and scanning for devices it found a Bonjour multifunction device and we were back in business...

Hope this helps someone.