Canon iP2700 (connected to MacbookPro-MacOS X 10.8.5) printing blank pages when printing from Windows 7

angelprone926 wrote:

I also tried to connect the printer in my Windows 7 PC using the usual "\\computername\printername" setup but it cannot detect the Canon iP2700

This is Windows SMB syntax. It doesn't work on OS X.

The blank pages suggest a driver issue. Where did you get the driver for Windows? Is it the inbox driver (ie the driver that is included with Windows 7) or did you download the driver from Canon and then run the installer?

If you connect the iP2700 USB to the Win7 box and create a new printer, does this print okay?

Hi. Have the same problem. Old Macbook as print server with OS X 10.7.5 and two shared printers Canon iP2700 and MF3010. Printing from my another Macbook Air works great. But if I print something from my another laptop with Windows 7 I receive black pages. Printing on MF3010 works great, so I don't know why and trying to find solution.

I found this while looking for a solution to what I believe is the same problem I was having.

I did end up getting this to work.

Here is a step by step:

1) Make sure your mac is set up for printer sharing in system preferences -> sharing

2) Install bonjour print services on your Windows computer

3) Run "Bonjour Printer Wizard"

4) Select your cannon Ip series @ mac from the list

5) DO NOT finish the wizard, instead select "back"

6) Select "Generic" and "MS Publisher Color Printer" from the list of drivers

7) Finish the wizard

8) Print!

Everything should work fine as mine did. I beleive the cause for this issue is driver related. Drivers are already installed on the mac for this printer so I beleive it causes a conflict if the windows machine also uses those drivers.

Hope this helped 🙂

At last, I have found it. This works perfectly, so far. Many thanks.