HI
I don't find the printing driver for my canon pixma MP21O
I use maverick 10.9.5
somebody can hep me.
I had the same problem on my old imac mid2006 before. I resolve this but today I can't find a solution for os10.9.5
OS X Mavericks (10.9.5)
The way we get (most) drivers has changed. Manufacturers give current drivers to Apple who keep them on their (Apple's) server.
You don't need to download anything - the driver should be auto-installed when you add the printer in Print & Scan prefs.
Have you tried adding in System Prefs > Print & Scan?
This says your driver is available for auto-install:
the printer is connected with usb to a windows 7 pc (not mine)
the canon driver is not in the list
i search help again
Oh OK. That's a different problem. Canon has provided a USB-only driver for its USB-only printers. Meaning, without direct USB connection or Mac-to-Mac sharing, you can't print via the network. You need a driver which is not restricted, which I used to call a CUPS-compliant driver.
Gutenprint is a CUPS-compliant driver, capable of using all the possible network comm protocols that OS X's CUPS printing system offers.
Get Gutenprint:
This post was extremely helpful. As a first time MAC user, I had spent a ridiculous amount of time downloading a few different drivers for the MP210 with no printing success.
Like the original poster, I am using Mavericks 10.9.5 and have been trying to connect and print to my PIXMA Canon MP210 connected via USB to a Windows 7 machine.
Just wanted to add a few things I found I had to do:
1) On the Windows 7 machine, I added the Guest Account. My Admin user, the only user I had configured, did not have a password associated to it and I could not connect to the workgroup computer from my MAC with the admin username and no password. (It kept denying me access)
2) Once the Guest account was active I made sure that the Printer Properties "Password protected sharing", was set to 'Turn off password protected sharing'.
3) When attempting to connect to the workgroup from my MAC I was still asked for Username/Password credentials. This time I selected Guest. After some searching it returned the printer name.
4) Once installing Gutenprint 5.2.10 a bunch of additional Printer Software options became available when adding the printer.
I chose Canon MP210 Series - CUPS+Gutenprint v5.2.10. Though none of the additional options for the printer are available from my MAC (i.e. Cleaning or checking ink levels), I can finally print. Alleluia.
Again, thank you both for your detailed posts!
I search the driver canon MP210 for Maveriks 10.9.5
