How to install Canon Selphy 900 on OS X 10.10 Yosemite

Hi Chris - many thanks for your installer package. After having tried to revive my Selphy CP780 with Yosemite for hours, I found this post. Ran the package and my CP780 is working again. Great job, helping us keep our otherwise obsolete printers, running.

😀 ➕➕

@Impact Imaging: Your hint for the mountain lion driver helped for CP780.

@ Christian: Great job!

First I tried the package from Christian posted above and chose the driver CP800 as some mentioned in this post. It failed on a retina MBP mid 2014 with all recent Yosemite updates. Neither printer switch on/off nor system restart worked.

I downloaded the lion driver from Canon and modified the settings from distribution.dist and run the package.

This was a very well known method to install the driver on Mavericks. See link for details how to do it. Sorry, it is in German, but you will find this also in EN somewhere.

http://schmid.tv/2013/11/basteltipp-canon-selphy-cp780790800810900-unter-macos-x -10-8-und-10-9-mavericks-nutzen/

I removed the CP780 from the former installation with Christian package and reinstalled it with the CP780 driver, but it failed and I got the same error message. Neither printer switch on/off nor system restart helped.

Now, I reinstalled Christians package. The printer were switched on/off and after system restart it worked. Great!!

Re-instalation of Christians package also helped to restore the printing capability on my iMac late 2013 where I installed the CP780 according to the link above in Mavericks earlier, but was upgraded to Yosemite recently. After the upgrade the printer did not work any more.

Can someone try to reproduce as follows on a "fresh machine"?

1. Download CP780 Lion driver from Canon.

2. Modify the package as described in the link above.

3. Install the modified package

4. Run Christians package

5. Switch off printer, restart the system and start the printer.

6. Evtl. delete and re-add printer in system settings

6. Print from iPhoto

Many thanks to Christian and Impact Imaging! Looking forward to your comments.

Keywords: How to install Canon Selphy CP780 on Yosemite

Nothing for the CP710 ?

It doesn't work with 780 driver mod.

Hi Norman,

I tried all the steps you list. It didn't work.

I mixed the steps in every ways and tried desperate stuffs for 2 hours. It still doesn't work. 😠

Shame on Canon !

@ jeepnet

I am sorry to read this.

Actually, I do not understand why, but I was so happy that this work arround worked in my case and still does on the MPB and the iMac...

I hope that someone with more knowledge can assist. It is really a shame, that Canon does not provide Driver updates.

Hi, i have cp760 model but no one of these drivers works for me..

Yosemite 10.10 2 here

Thank you!

Problem solved.

Hi,

Can you explain a desparate person what you exactly did to solve it ?

Hi,

my apologies, I've answered to Ceo77's message, thinking it would have been quoted in my message.

I did use his installer and everything worked for my Selphy 910.

Here below Ceo77's original message.

Ceo77Oct 24, 2014 10:19 AM Re: How to install Canon Selphy 900 on OS X 10.10 Yosemite
Re: How to install Canon Selphy 900 on OS X 10.10 Yosemitein response to Ca-Scho | This solved my question

Hello,

I have created a Canon Selphy installer package for OS X Yosemite, based on the Mavericks driver.

Works fine with me.

http://www.christianspuller.com/SelphyYosemite.pkg

Shame on Canon...

Christian

Sorry for the retry, but anything for the Selphy 710 ? It's doesn't work like that... 😟

how did you do that?

Dawn it!!! It does work!!! Just did it (don't know german) but I was able to change the lion .dmg and install reinstall Christian's pkg and it was on! Took me a little time to figure it out but did it!! Thanks to all!! Great work!!

Works great with my 740 (I chose the 780 in the menu, it doesn't matter).

Thank you.

Wauw, many many thanx..... My CP900 finally working again.

Shame on Canon indeed..

Thank you from another happy printer, now, works like it should