Apple Releases Snow Leopard Printer Driver Updates

MacRumors · Nov 16, 2009, 11:24 PM

Apple today released a series of printer driver updates for Snow Leopard users, bringing additional support for printer and multifunction devices from Brother, Canon, HP, and Lexmark.

- Brother Printer Drivers for Mac OS X v10.6 (99.9 MB)
- Canon Printer Drivers for Mac OS X v10.6 (274.59 MB)
- HP Printer Drivers for Mac OS X v10.6 (387.44 MB)
- Lexmark Printer Drivers for Mac OS X v10.6 (117 MB)

Full information on Snow Leopard printer driver support is available on Apple's support document, which includes notations of models for which drivers have been recently added or updated.

Article Link: Apple Releases Snow Leopard Printer Driver Updates

arkmannj · Nov 16, 2009, 11:57 PM

I always end up using gutenprint drivers in SL. guess that's what I get for having a 7 year old printer still kickin' around.

LanPhantom · Nov 17, 2009, 12:39 AM

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Yey, more printer drivers! I always love apple updating my drivers for me. Beats browsing manufactures websites for the new ones

thejadedmonkey · Nov 17, 2009, 12:46 AM

And Apple still cannot properly support the Canon printer I purchased from an Apple store.
*sigh*

doctoree · Nov 17, 2009, 03:22 AM

The DeskJet 930c was fully supported in Leopard and now in SL it uses ugly Guten Print drivers. I don't know what changed so radically that they can't use the Leopard drivers in Snow Leopard as well.

SydneyDev · Nov 17, 2009, 03:36 AM

I thought OS X's Window server had paper quality compositing. If so, shouldn't printers drivers all be tiny little programs that just copy the file through? (except for older non-PS/PDF printers)

drlunanerd · Nov 17, 2009, 08:06 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by thejadedmonkey

And Apple still cannot properly support the Canon printer I purchased from an Apple store.
*sigh*

Check your driver has actually been updated - mine didn't at first

Software Update downloaded a delta update (about 8.5MB) but didn't actually update my Canon printer driver even though on the support KB it states my model has received an update.

I tried removing my printer, rebooting and re-adding, but it still used the old driver. Only when I manually downloaded and installed the full Canon printer update package did the new driver take

RichardI · Nov 17, 2009, 08:18 AM

I have an HP P1505 mono LaserJet and the delta update worked for me. The full size update is like 384 MB so I wouldn't download it if your printer is now fully supported - mine is. Check first.

Rich

guzhogi · Nov 17, 2009, 09:51 AM

Just updated my HP drivers. Went from version 5.4 of the drivers to 16.1. That's a big sounding upgrade. I thought to myself "Will it go to work for me, too?" But, no. In previous driver updates for SL, the drivers maybe went from 5.3 to 5.4. But going from 5.4 to 16.1? Haven't seen too much of a difference yet.

HONDAxACURA · Nov 17, 2009, 11:33 AM

Snow Leopard still doesn't support scanning for my Brother MFC-4800. I sure hope they didn't forget about it. =(

CmdrLaForge · Nov 17, 2009, 12:18 PM

I bought an HP CM1312 Printer and Scanner AFTER I purchased a Macbook Pro running Snow Leopard. I still cannot SCAN ! Thats ridiculous. I report back IF this updates finally fixes this issue.

CmdrLaForge · Nov 17, 2009, 12:35 PM

Fantastic - it still doesn't work.

That means - 2 month after I purchase a brand new printer from HP it doesn't what it says on the box - scanning.

Printing is fine btw.

Wayne s · Nov 17, 2009, 12:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by doctoree

The DeskJet 930c was fully supported in Leopard and now in SL it uses ugly Guten Print drivers. I don't know what changed so radically that they can't use the Leopard drivers in Snow Leopard as well.

Know exactly what you mean, My 930c has been a solid and reliable printer for years and now with SL photo's print really bad.

YMark · Nov 17, 2009, 01:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Wayne s

Know exactly what you mean, My 930c has been a solid and reliable printer for years and now with SL photo's print really bad.

Does the new SL printer update include a driver for the 930c? I pretty pissed about the poor photo quality with the Guten driver.

definitive · Nov 17, 2009, 02:12 PM

as usual, they're lagging behind with releasing updates for older epson printers.

guzhogi · Nov 17, 2009, 02:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by YMark

Does the new SL printer update include a driver for the 930c? I pretty pissed about the poor photo quality with the Guten driver.

Have you tried pxlmono or HPIJS?

davidg4781 · Nov 17, 2009, 02:30 PM

Question: My HP J6420 is set up as a WiFi printer and not connected to my MacBook. So far, I have never had printer drivers show up under Software Update.

Is this because of the WiFi or no updates for the printer? I'm downloading this one though.

YMark · Nov 17, 2009, 04:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by guzhogi

Have you tried pxlmono or HPIJS?

No I haven't. I'm going to try the HPLIP driver which includes HPIJS. It has a few advanced features.

Thanks for the info.

Galley · Nov 17, 2009, 04:43 PM

It took Oki Data forever to release drivers for Leopard, so I'm not expecting Snow Leopard drivers until 2011.

jbcaro · Nov 17, 2009, 05:02 PM

After install I get a hpPlugInInit.kext not installed properly. Remove and reinstall or contact HP.

Not sure how I'm supposed to reinstall. It file deletes just fine but deleting the printer and then reinstalling it does not reinstall the hpPlugInInit.kext file.

Not sure what it is used for. I have a HP Color LaserJet 2605dn.

oldwatery · Nov 17, 2009, 08:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by definitive

as usual, they're lagging behind with releasing updates for older epson printers.

Yes, considering this was meant to be a performance upgrade, Snow Leopard qualifies as the worst version of OSX so far.
Safari hangs every day, no printer drivers for my older printers and just yesterday i-Tunes started re-opening as soon as I quit

What a total POS

ClassicII · Nov 17, 2009, 08:44 PM

Good hopefully this will fix all the problems I have been having with multiple cannon printers.

66Replica · Nov 17, 2009, 10:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by oldwatery

Yes, considering this was meant to be a performance upgrade, Snow Leopard qualifies as the worst version of OSX so far.
Safari hangs every day, no printer drivers for my older printers and just yesterday i-Tunes started re-opening as soon as I quit

What a total POS

I was having a ton of problems with SL at first. Is this a fresh install or upgrade? Mine ended up being some input managers for Safari (ad blockers) that were causing all sorts of problems. Once they got cleaned up SL screams.

coolfactor · Nov 18, 2009, 01:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by oldwatery

Yes, considering this was meant to be a performance upgrade, Snow Leopard qualifies as the worst version of OSX so far.
Safari hangs every day, no printer drivers for my older printers and just yesterday i-Tunes started re-opening as soon as I quit

What a total POS

I have to comment.

1. Just because you're having issues doesn't mean that everybody is.
2. The fact that you typed "i-Tunes" with a hyphen speaks volumes about your knowledge and attention to detail that we can expect.

I'm sorry you're having such a lousy experience. My MacBook Pro started crashing hourly this week, so I'm not a happy camper at all. Really takes the wind of my sails (sales?) for Apple products when they are just as unreliable and fragile as Windows machines.

Wayne s · Nov 18, 2009, 05:31 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by YMark

Does the new SL printer update include a driver for the 930c? I pretty pissed about the poor photo quality with the Guten driver.

No support for the 930c.

Nov 16, 2009, 11:24 PM	#1
MacRumors macrumors bot Join Date: Apr 2001	Apple Releases Snow Leopard Printer Driver Updates Apple today released a series of printer driver updates for Snow Leopard users, bringing additional support for printer and multifunction devices from Brother, Canon, HP, and Lexmark. - Brother Printer Drivers for Mac OS X v10.6 (99.9 MB) - Canon Printer Drivers for Mac OS X v10.6 (274.59 MB) - HP Printer Drivers for Mac OS X v10.6 (387.44 MB) - Lexmark Printer Drivers for Mac OS X v10.6 (117 MB) Full information on Snow Leopard printer driver support is available on Apple's support document, which includes notations of models for which drivers have been recently added or updated. Article Link: Apple Releases Snow Leopard Printer Driver Updates

Nov 17, 2009, 12:39 AM	#3
LanPhantom macrumors member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Puyallup, WA	Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 3_1_2 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/528.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile/7D11 Safari/528.16) Yey, more printer drivers! I always love apple updating my drivers for me. Beats browsing manufactures websites for the new ones __________________ iPhone 3G Black 16Gb iPhone 3G White 16Gb MBP 2.4Ghz PB 1Ghz PB Pismo G3 450 & Multiple iPods

Nov 17, 2009, 12:46 AM	#4
thejadedmonkey macrumors 68040 Join Date: May 2005 Location: Pa	And Apple still cannot properly support the Canon printer I purchased from an Apple store. sigh __________________ Mac Mini G4 • MacBook Pro • iPod Nano "Good judgement comes from experience, experience comes from bad judgement." - Mulla Nasrudin

Nov 17, 2009, 03:22 AM	#5
doctoree macrumors 6502 Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Secret lair/ Earthmiddlepoint	The DeskJet 930c was fully supported in Leopard and now in SL it uses ugly Guten Print drivers. I don't know what changed so radically that they can't use the Leopard drivers in Snow Leopard as well. __________________ I just signed my Organ Donor Card because Steve J. asked for it. That's how you know Apples marketing works!

Nov 17, 2009, 03:36 AM	#6
SydneyDev macrumors 6502 Join Date: Sep 2008	I thought OS X's Window server had paper quality compositing. If so, shouldn't printers drivers all be tiny little programs that just copy the file through? (except for older non-PS/PDF printers) __________________ 27" i7 iMac, iPhone 3G

Nov 16, 2009, 11:57 PM	#2
arkmannj macrumors 6502a Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Salt Lake City UT	I always end up using gutenprint drivers in SL. guess that's what I get for having a 7 year old printer still kickin' around.

Nov 17, 2009, 08:18 AM	#8
RichardI macrumors 6502 Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Southern Ontario, Canada	I have an HP P1505 mono LaserJet and the delta update worked for me. The full size update is like 384 MB so I wouldn't download it if your printer is now fully supported - mine is. Check first. Rich __________________ iMac 24", 2.8 Ghz., 4 Gb. ram, HD2600 Pro, 750Gb. Hard Drive, OSX 10.6.X (latest) MagicMouse, iPod Shuffle (2nd G) 1 Gb.

Nov 17, 2009, 09:51 AM	#9
guzhogi macrumors 65816 Join Date: Aug 2003	Just updated my HP drivers. Went from version 5.4 of the drivers to 16.1. That's a big sounding upgrade. I thought to myself "Will it go to work for me, too?" But, no. In previous driver updates for SL, the drivers maybe went from 5.3 to 5.4. But going from 5.4 to 16.1? Haven't seen too much of a difference yet.

Nov 17, 2009, 11:33 AM	#10
HONDAxACURA macrumors member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: California	Snow Leopard still doesn't support scanning for my Brother MFC-4800. I sure hope they didn't forget about it. =( __________________  13" Unibody Macbook (Late 2008) 2.0 GHz, 4 GB DDR3 Ram, 160 GB HDD.  1st gen iPod Nano Black 1GB

Nov 17, 2009, 12:18 PM	#11
CmdrLaForge macrumors 68000 Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: around the world	I bought an HP CM1312 Printer and Scanner AFTER I purchased a Macbook Pro running Snow Leopard. I still cannot SCAN ! Thats ridiculous. I report back IF this updates finally fixes this issue. __________________ Slatenews.de - blogging about Apples New Tablet Computer ; Twitter #slatenews Macbook Pro 17" 2.8 GHz ; Cinema Display 23"; iPhone 3G 16GB; TimeCapsule; Final Cut Studio 2; Aperture 2

Nov 17, 2009, 12:35 PM	#12
CmdrLaForge macrumors 68000 Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: around the world	Fantastic - it still doesn't work. That means - 2 month after I purchase a brand new printer from HP it doesn't what it says on the box - scanning. Printing is fine btw. __________________ Slatenews.de - blogging about Apples New Tablet Computer ; Twitter #slatenews Macbook Pro 17" 2.8 GHz ; Cinema Display 23"; iPhone 3G 16GB; TimeCapsule; Final Cut Studio 2; Aperture 2

Nov 17, 2009, 02:12 PM	#15
definitive macrumors 6502 Join Date: Aug 2008	as usual, they're lagging behind with releasing updates for older epson printers.

Nov 17, 2009, 02:30 PM	#17
davidg4781 macrumors 6502 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Corpus Christi, TX	Question: My HP J6420 is set up as a WiFi printer and not connected to my MacBook. So far, I have never had printer drivers show up under Software Update. Is this because of the WiFi or no updates for the printer? I'm downloading this one though. __________________ MacBook Core Duo 2.0GHz 2GB RAM 250GB HDD iPod nano 2GB - 2nd gen.

Nov 17, 2009, 04:43 PM	#19
Galley macrumors 6502a Join Date: Mar 2008	It took Oki Data forever to release drivers for Leopard, so I'm not expecting Snow Leopard drivers until 2011. __________________ 24" Aluminum iMac, 2.8 GHz, 4 GB RAM, 320 GB HDD ; 32 GB white iPhone 3GS, 160 GB tv

Nov 17, 2009, 05:02 PM	#20
jbcaro macrumors member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Milky Way	After install I get a hpPlugInInit.kext not installed properly. Remove and reinstall or contact HP. Not sure how I'm supposed to reinstall. It file deletes just fine but deleting the printer and then reinstalling it does not reinstall the hpPlugInInit.kext file. Not sure what it is used for. I have a HP Color LaserJet 2605dn. __________________ Mac Pro 2 x 2.66GHz DC Intel Xeon; 10GB Ram; 3-300GB SATA HD, 1-500GB SATA HD, OSX 10.6.2; 1-500GB ATA, Win 7 Pro; 1-1TB Time Capsule; 1-500GB FW

Nov 17, 2009, 08:44 PM	#22
ClassicII macrumors member Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Chicago, IL	Good hopefully this will fix all the problems I have been having with multiple cannon printers.

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