I just received notice from Canon that they will not develop a printer driver for OS10.10.1 for their Pixma MX850 product. Does anyone have a recommendation? thx.

Hmm. That looks quite different to the newest models of MX. If you scroll to the bottom of that Top Page, is the setting there? If not, have a looked under the Wired LAN. In the meantime I will try to locate a manual for this model to check what settings are available.

I have the same problem and found to my own surprise a solution. The problem is: I’m not yet very sure what I did. But this is, what I believe how it works:

I entered in Safari http://localhist:631. This is the CUPS-Homepage. (If it doesn’t appear, one has to go to Terminal and enter cupsctl WenInterface=yes.)

Here I took the tab "Administration" and after this the button "Add printer".

And here is the point where I'm unsure. At first I made this: I activated "LPS/LPS-Host or -printer", entered at the next page in "Connection" lpd://ip-address/queue, on the next page the entered the name and on the next one the driver. (It hjas to be installed before.)

This didn’t bring any change, but when I tried it once more next tome, I foun in the first window under "Discovered Network Printers" this: "Canon MX 850..." I activated this option, and that’s all. Now the printer is there where it shall be.

I’n not an IT expert, so I don’t know if the first step was necessary. May be somebody can correct this. but anyway: it worked.

Now I’ll test what’s about the scanner...

Welsbach wrote:

This didn’t bring any change, but when I tried it once more next tome, I foun in the first window under "Discovered Network Printers" this: "Canon MX 850..." I activated this option, and that’s all. Now the printer is there where it shall be.

This shows that you added the printer using Bonjour, as this is the only way to discover the printer on the network. So the concern here is that you first tried to add the printer using LPD but it didn't work, and that is what PreTravel is getting (albeit via the Add printer facility). Having read through several MX850 manuals I cannot find a process of enabling LPR or even if it has such an option. If not the confusing thing is how have the others who posted here managed to get their MX850 working???

Well. I did it once more on another Mac after a clean install. I did this:

1. I installed the driver (as you recommended, the version 108402).

2. I enabled the Webinterface for CUPS: I opened es Terminal an entered there

cupsctl WebInterface=yes

3. I opened the CUPS Website:

http://localhost:631

4. I selected the button "Add printer", a password window popped up, where I enetered my user name ans password:

5. The next page opened: "Add printer":

6. I selected the Canon printer and pressed "Continue“ and saw the next page:

7. Here I changed name and location and pressed "Continue“ to see the next page:

8. Because here all was OK (the right model was selected) I just pressed "Add printer":

9. That’s all. 😉

Hey Welsbach, This worked for me too! Danke!

Thank you also PaHu for the significant amount of research you did on this. Such a shame that these big companies can't just make these things work when we spend so much money on their goods. I was about to give up and just go and buy a cheap printer to use with this one computer. You efforts are very sincerely appreciated and I wish you both well.

Kind regards

Paul

In case this is helpful to anyone: I had the same problem with my Canon MX300 - after upgrading to Yosemite, I found that Canon has no driver for Yosemite and Apple has no driver for this printer. However, when I downloaded the most recent driver version for this printer, I was able to ADD a new printer and it picked up the new driver by default and it works.

Thanks! This got MY Canon MX850 up and going again. I used the 860 driver though.

Thanks so much. Did you manage to get the Scanner working too? I'm not sure how to do that.

PAHU - Thank you for this information. I followed your instructions and my MX850 now prints from my MacBook Air. You made my day! Awesome.

This worked awesome for me now I don't have to spend money on a new printer! I didn't have to option in my firmware to enable LPD. Thanks to Welsbach, and everyone here for the help!

This absolutely worked and worked fast! I was about to go out and buy another printer but now I don't have to . Thank you!!!

PAHU, I have the new mac running os X Yosemite 10.10. 5 and I have a canon PIXMA MP620 printer that i'm trying to use together but canon's website says they don't have the driver from this. Do u think if i followed your steps with and older driver for that printer it will work with my mac? Thanks in advance for your kind advice

The last driver that Canon released for the MP620 was for OS X 10.9. This should install and function on 10.10.5 so here is a link to the driver.

PAHU thanks a lot. It worked, even after I upgraded my mac to os x 10.11. You saved me a lot of time and trouble.

PAHU wrote:

The last driver that Canon released for the MP620 was for OS X 10.9. This should install and function on 10.10.5 so here is a link to the driver.

I updated to El Capitan several nights ago and only yesterday found out that my MX850 wouldn't work because of a "filter error". I followed PAHU's instructions to download the driver and create a new printer using the IP address. I double checked my work and found no mistakes, but it didn't work for me. (I didn't follow any of the steps in subsequent posts, so maybe if I had, ultimately it would have worked.) My MX850 is networked through my Airport Extreme by USB (which is now all it's used for along with a guest network since getting the new U-verse router.) I did a little tweeking with the Extreme settings (really only changed the base and network passwords) and somehow my original MX850 settings now work again. I tried the secondary created using the printer IP addy, but it's still not working. This may or may not help anyone, but if your network is configured similarly, it might be worth it to try troubleshooting the router. Certainly worth it before going out and buying a new printer like I thought I was going to have to do.

Since someone in the thread brought this up, I have never been able to use the scan feature since moving the MX850 to the WiFi network, which I had to do to connect it to a phone line for the Fax function. That only works when the machine is connected to the Mac by USB.