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I have lived in Japan for 24 year ( Australian ) I have an English school here and so need to do a lot of printing and especially the A3 size B/W pages for the text book I produce.
In 2001 I bought a Japanese Canon A3 size laser printer ( LBP 1610 about US$1,000) I was using an Apple G4 Quicksiver with OS 9.6 installed. As the years passed I upgraded to a Mac Pro 2,1. and OS X 10.6.8 and was able to print without problems.
Then when OS X Mavericks and then Yosemite ( which I have installed on the MP 2,1 ) came along I suddenly found that on the Canon drivers page the drivers stopped at OS X10.7.
I tried many solutions unsuccessfully and virtually gave up and used 10.6.8 for printing and 10.9.5 for everything else (I prefer Mavericks to Yosemite ).
Today I thought that I'd do another futile check for a 10.9 driver for this printer and saw that there was a version I hadn't downloaded before for Lion so I thought "What the hell " give it a shot. Installed it in Mavericks 10.9.5 specified the driver installed PPD for my LBP-1610 ( Library/ Printers / PPDs /Contents / resources / and to my utter amazement . . .it prints perfectly !
The best thing is that because a genuine Canon cartridge for this printer is about ¥40,000 I can still buy a 'recycled' cartridge here for about ¥5,000 and get toner for 50,000 A4 prints from the U.S.A. for about ¥4,500 delivered her in Japan.. . I have only bought one 'recycled' cartridge in the past 14 years and toner only three times.
This printer can be configured to show English on the control panel display.
I can finally remove my 10.6.8 HD I'm estatically happy.
Maybe I've just been luck in that Canon has left some legacy stuff in the driver or that the PPD file is what's keeping me in business.
Even better, 2nd. hand 'recycled' models of this LBP-1610 and a later model ( LBP-1810 ) are still on sale here at a fractionj of their original retail price - around ¥21,000.
There are a lot of non-Japanese residents now in Japan, many like me have their own schools. I hope this thread gets their attention.
It maybe that other older Canon A4 / A3 laser printers will get a life extension. I hope so. Prining B/W on any injet costs an arm and a leg.
Canon A3 Laser LBP 1610 ( of LBP 1810 )
I have lived in Japan for 24 year ( Australian ) I have an English school here and so need to do a lot of printing and especially the A3 size B/W pages for the text book I produce.
In 2001 I bought a Japanese Canon A3 size laser printer ( LBP 1610 about US$1,000) I was using an Apple G4 Quicksiver with OS 9.6 installed. As the years passed I upgraded to a Mac Pro 2,1. and OS X 10.6.8 and was able to print without problems.
Then when OS X Mavericks and then Yosemite ( which I have installed on the MP 2,1 ) came along I suddenly found that on the Canon drivers page the drivers stopped at OS X10.7.
I tried many solutions unsuccessfully and virtually gave up and used 10.6.8 for printing and 10.9.5 for everything else (I prefer Mavericks to Yosemite ).
Today I thought that I'd do another futile check for a 10.9 driver for this printer and saw that there was a version I hadn't downloaded before for Lion so I thought "What the hell " give it a shot. Installed it in Mavericks 10.9.5 specified the driver installed PPD for my LBP-1610 ( Library/ Printers / PPDs /Contents / resources / and to my utter amazement . . .it prints perfectly !
The best thing is that because a genuine Canon cartridge for this printer is about ¥40,000 I can still buy a 'recycled' cartridge here for about ¥5,000 and get toner for 50,000 A4 prints from the U.S.A. for about ¥4,500 delivered her in Japan.. . I have only bought one 'recycled' cartridge in the past 14 years and toner only three times.
This printer can be configured to show English on the control panel display.
I can finally remove my 10.6.8 HD I'm estatically happy.
Maybe I've just been luck in that Canon has left some legacy stuff in the driver or that the PPD file is what's keeping me in business.
Even better, 2nd. hand 'recycled' models of this LBP-1610 and a later model ( LBP-1810 ) are still on sale here at a fractionj of their original retail price - around ¥21,000.
There are a lot of non-Japanese residents now in Japan, many like me have their own schools. I hope this thread gets their attention.
It maybe that other older Canon A4 / A3 laser printers will get a life extension. I hope so. Prining B/W on any injet costs an arm and a leg.
Canon A3 Laser LBP 1610 ( of LBP 1810 )
