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Canon printer and OS 10.4

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rebknell

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Jan 24, 2009
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Very frustrated - I was looking for a printer for my father - found someone selling a Canon Pixma MG3520 online. Before I purchased it - I looked to make sure it 1) could print Black w/o having to have color installed. and 2) it was compatible with Mac OS 10.4. Three people said yes to the OS question. So I bought it. Now I find that there is no drivers via Canon's site for this OS system!!!!

Is there anything I can do to get my computer to recognize this printer? Or am I screwed?

Any help would greatly be appreciated.

Rebecca
 
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rebknell said:
Very frustrated - I was looking for a printer for my father - found someone selling a Canon Pixma MG352 online. Before I purchased it - I looked to make sure it 1) could print Black w/o having to have color installed. and 2) it was compatible with Mac OS 10.4. Three people said yes to the OS question. So I bought it. Now I find that there is no drivers via Canon's site for this OS system!!!!

Is there anything I can do to get my computer to recognize this printer? Or am I screwed?

Any help would greatly be appreciated.

Rebecca
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Do you mean a MG3520?
 
gsahli said:
Try the Gutenprint drivers:
http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/MacOSX.php
(version 5.2.9 for 10.4)
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This looks extremely complicated - I'm looking at the manual and am completely lost. I know nothing about coding - using the terminal... etc. I was hoping it was as simple as installing something and choosing it from the list of printer settings.

I have installed this - now what? Can you explain in layman's terms?

I see a choice of generic & Gutenprint in the drop down menus, but THEN which one do I choose?

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gsahli said:
Try the Gutenprint drivers:
http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/MacOSX.php
(version 5.2.9 for 10.4)
Click to expand...

Disregard my previous post - I figured it out. Didin't realize this would show up in ALL printers. Got it printing.

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!!!!

You are my knight in shining armor!
 
rebknell said:
This looks extremely complicated - I'm looking at the manual and am completely lost. I know nothing about coding - using the terminal... etc. I was hoping it was as simple as installing something and choosing it from the list of printer settings.

I have installed this - now what? Can you explain in layman's terms?

I see a choice of generic & Gutenprint in the drop down menus, but THEN which one do I choose?

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Disregard my previous post - I figured it out. Didin't realize this would show up in ALL printers. Got it printing.

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!!!!

You are my knight in shining armor!
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Could you post a screenshot of what you are seeing?
 
Now to scanning...

Now that I got the printing part of this printer working, thanks to the Gutenprint Drivers, is there anything to be done about the scanning part? I Want to be able to scan photos onto the computer. But the software I find online talks about not finding the drive........
 
rebknell said:
Now that I got the printing part of this printer working, thanks to the Gutenprint Drivers, is there anything to be done about the scanning part? I Want to be able to scan photos onto the computer. But the software I find online talks about not finding the drive........
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You could try the 10.6 Snow Leopard driver from Canon.
 
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