Canon Pixma ip4000

Alex White~ wrote:

I don't want to get get rid of a decent printer just because Canon haven't updated the driver for Mavericks.

They never updated the driver for 10.7, so its not surprising that there is no driver for 10.9.

But fear not, I have tested Gutenprint v5.2.9 on OS X 10.9 and it works and it lists your iP4000 as a supported model. Note that Gutenprint is not signed, so you will need to Control-click on the installer and select Open from the pop-up window to get past Gatekeeper.

It looks like PAHU's suggestion to download Gutenprint (third post of the thread) didn't help everyone but it did help me so I encourage everyone to give it a try and want to thank PAHU.

Before that, I had the latest driver available from Canon installed, the printer did work and print but after updating to Mavericks, it printed ok only text but producing prints with lines and deformed colors when printing photos.

I installed Gutenprint v5.2.9 from this site and did nothing else (not unistalling any driver or anything) and now it works great! I printed a high def photo on photo paper, turned out as good as it used to.

If you go to the Canon driver downloads for iP4200, it determines that you're using Mavericks and tells you there are no drivers for it. But if you change your OS to 10.7, you can download that driver and install it (using "Open with" -> "Installer") and it works fine on Mavericks.

Canon has dropped support for these older models (4000, 4200). Do not wait for anything from Apple, becuase nothing is coming. Once a vendor dropps support for their 6 or 7 year old designs, there is nothing Apple is going to do to undo this.

There are recommendations for GutenPrint or other 3rd party solutions if you need to continue using this printer.

If you do buy a new printer, I recommend that you get one with AirPrint. That way you are not dependent on a vendor provided driver (http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4356)

Update: On the back - or lack - of Canon's support, I was just about to flog the printer and spare inks on Gumtree when I decided to check it one more time.

I followed the instructions here - http://support.apple.com/kb/PH10663 - I updated the software, unplugged and then replugged the printer...and it's now working perfectly.

(Admittedly, I had the same message yesterday as sailormac above - repair permissions - but it didn't appear to respond to clicking OK. Perhaps a reboot was all it needed.)

Hope this is helpful to others in the same situation.

I also had a problem with my iP4200 on Mavericks. I couldn't print duplex anymore and also a lot of the print settings where stroke through (like Duplexprinting and Borders)

So what i did was delete the ip4200 from my printers, download the driver for the iP4300 from canon and then re-add the ip4200. but this time with the ip4300 driver.

works for me.

tell me how this works out for you.

I have just now been able to get my Canon iP4000 printer to work with OS X Mavericks, as follows:

Downloaded Canon iP4000 driver from http://driverscollection.com

Used PAHU's tip (control-click on driver's .dmg file, then choose "Open") to force DiskImageMounter to do its magic.

It's working!

Thanks to all – and PAHU in particular.

I had this problem with my Canon Pixma ip1700 and I was able to get it working by installing the Apple Canon Driver (http://support.apple.com/kb/dl899) and then telling the Printer Setup dialog that my printer was an ip1800 rather than in ip1700.

The ip1700 isn't listed in the set of printers supported by this driver, but it seems to work fine anyway.

It might be worth trying the same with other Pixma printers - install the driver and then try posing as other printers to see if the driver works.

The IP4000 was not working on my new MBP. I tried all the suggested solutions here and non of them was working. But it is working on my old MBA (3 years). Both with the latest OSX (10.9.3). I checked the driver versions on both MBs and they are different.

To get the printer working on my MBP I copied the IP4000 driver files from the MBA.
The path is /Library/Printers/PPDs/Contents/Resources.
The IP4000 is working now on both MBs 🙂

Just let me know if you need the driver files.

I tried copying the files you suggested from my MacBook Pro (the printer works with the MacBook) to the iMac but the printer still wouldn't work. I downloaded the lastest version of Guten-Print from Source Forge and that did work. The Pixima IP4000 is working with my iMac running Mavericks.

http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net

hi, I don't know if it helps and how to make this constructive But…

I installed 10.9 on a partition, having become 'wise' over the many years. This gives me the opportunity to testrun the Os and to see if there are workarounds.

In this case I found one and it is relatively simple:

Because I have a partition on the same drive, I still have the full install of ML. Now, in the library (main and personal in divers folders) the drivers are stored. What I did is copy/paste the whole folder and replaced it in the 10.9 location. Result: it works like before.

Point is here: the software (drivers) just works, it is just the installer I guess hat does not work.

Hope it helps?

The PIXMA iP4300 CUPS Printer Driver Ver. 10.67.2.0 (OS X 10.5/10.6/10.7/10.8) from http://www.usa.canon.com/cusa/support/consumer/printers_multifunction/pixma_ip_s eries/pixma_ip4300#DriversAndSoftware seems to be working.

You can use this driver:

http://www.canon.de/Support/Consumer_Products/products/printers/InkJet/PIXMA_iP_ series/PIXMA_iP4000.aspx?DLtcmuri=tcm:83-903584&page=1&type=download

it works for me!

This driver here worked for me no problems.

http://driverscollection.com/?file_cid=45270957864735a9926d13f30e6