Printer losers
Friday 2nd May, 2008Remember the nice Canon LBP-2900 cheap
laser printer I bought a while back, but never managed to get to print
on the Mac?
Well, today I spent a couple of hours on the boards and - alas - there is solution! you can follow the full thread on the Apple support site, or I can give you the skinny:
If however you, like me, still get the maddening situation where the printer seems to install correctly, you can add it to your Printers selecting the CAPT driver, but still can't print as every job sits endlessly as "Stopped", try one more step.
Not clear why, but it worked for me !!
Canon, you really unimpressed for sloppy work, here !!
I also downloaded the latest version of the GIMP and although I still find it complicated, it is a reasonable substitute for Paintshop for what I do.
This means I am down to basically two reasons to keep the VMware alive, and these are:
1. electronic signatures on PDF - my Acrobat Pro license can't be carried over/upgraded to the Mac, and I don't particularly fancy giving another 600 euros to Adobe for something I already paid for, so looking into cheaper alternatives
2. synchronization of Lotus Notes with my N95 still elusive - hoping Steve at PocketMac can provide a fix for the problem I have there
Well, today I spent a couple of hours on the boards and - alas - there is solution! you can follow the full thread on the Apple support site, or I can give you the skinny:
- Download here the latest CAPT driver released by Canon, install it and restart
- Download here the new printer definition file for the LBP 2900, unzip it and copy it to the /Library/Printers/Canon/CAPT/Profile/Device folder.
If however you, like me, still get the maddening situation where the printer seems to install correctly, you can add it to your Printers selecting the CAPT driver, but still can't print as every job sits endlessly as "Stopped", try one more step.
- Download the complete CAPT folder from here, unzip it, rename your old /Library/Printers/Canon/CAPT to CAPT_OLD or something, then copy the downloaded folder in its place (this is a folder of some guy that got it to work on one of his machines, but was unable to replicate the procedure on another Mac, so he simply copied the folder over, and bam!)
- Install the CAPT driver you downloaded before
Not clear why, but it worked for me !!
Canon, you really unimpressed for sloppy work, here !!
I also downloaded the latest version of the GIMP and although I still find it complicated, it is a reasonable substitute for Paintshop for what I do.
This means I am down to basically two reasons to keep the VMware alive, and these are:
1. electronic signatures on PDF - my Acrobat Pro license can't be carried over/upgraded to the Mac, and I don't particularly fancy giving another 600 euros to Adobe for something I already paid for, so looking into cheaper alternatives
2. synchronization of Lotus Notes with my N95 still elusive - hoping Steve at PocketMac can provide a fix for the problem I have there
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