I'm trying to set up an IP printer with my iMac and am having no luck with the driver. I downloaded the driver and tried adding it in Printer Setup Utility and it won't recognize it. I've heard this is difficult to do but I don't know what else I could be doing to make it work. Any insight?? Thanks!
For the iR C3220, there was three print controller options. You had the internal Canon board and two EFI 'Fiery' print controller options. As each is slightly different from the other you need to know which one you have before installing a driver and adding the printer.
For the Canon board, you either need to use the Canon PS driver (now v1.70) or the Canon PPD installer.
The Canon PS driver doesn't support AppleTalk, so you will need to have an IP address set in the copier and have LPD enabled. Then on the Mac, to add the printer after installing the driver, you open Printer Setup Utility, click Add then More Printers. Select Canon IP (PS) from the list and then enter the IP address of the iR C3220. For the queue name you can leave it empty or have LP. When you OK this window, the driver will be automatically determined by querying the printer. Now you should be okay to print a test.
If you have an Intel Mac, the Canon IP (PS) will not appear if you are using a version of the Canon PS driver prior to 1.60 (which is Universal). So make sure you get this version or later.
If your iR C3220 has a Fiery attached, you will need to get the appropriate driver for the model you have. The driver consists of an OS X installer package which will add all the necessary files and PPD to your Mac. Both Fiery's also support AppleTalk, LPR and RAW, but they have to be enabled if they aren't already. A config page for the RIP will show you which protocol you can use.
One important point if you use LPR/LPD for the Fiery option. You need to enter a queue name, 'print' is the preferred, and it needs to be entered in lower case. Failure to do this will mean your jobs will never print.
Thanks for the insight so far, but I still can't get this going. When we try to install the driver nothing happens. The first time it said there was no program associated with it, and now it doesn't do anything at all. We are thinking it might be something going on with the associations but not sure. We can't get the driver to appear in the list at all, is that b/c we are downloading the wrong driver for the board or what? I have an Intel iMac and am using the 1.81 driver. Am I missing something here???
From memory, the v1.81 driver is actually just a ppd installer. When you run it, a number of ppds for several models of imageRUNNER are copied to the library/printers/ppds folder.
With the ppds installed, open the Printer Setup Utility and click Add. Select IP Printer and then LPD for the protocol. Input the IP address of the iR C3220 and for the queue name enter LP. Then in the Print Using, select Canon and then the 'Canon iR C3220' ppd. Click Add to finish.
If this doesn't print then you need to check which printer option you have. On the copier, press Additional Functions > Printer Settings > Settings. This should show you about 5 pages of settings if the Canon board is installed. If there is only one entry then you have a Fiery option, and if there is no Printer Settings, then you don't have the printer kit installed.
Ok Pahu I got it printing! but only from a web browser...when I try to print from any other programs, like Acrobat, Illustrator, InDesign etc. it just ads to the queue but I have no problems when it's from FireFox. Ever heard of this happening before?
I've never experienced this but there have been postings on this forum for similar problems, albeit for different printers. It sounds like it could be a PPC vs Intel problem. Can you try printing from TextEdit.
Also, some questions for you...
1. For the job in the queue, does it appear to be released to the printer (shows in completed) or does it simply stay in the queue?
2. Are you using LPR as the print protocol?
3. Can you try to print again from Acrobat and then copy the last 10 entries of the cups error log back here. This log can be found via the Console application. Click the Logs icon and then expand /var/log and then expand cups. You will see the error log under here.
