Monday, August 11, 2008

Network printing: Mac OS 10.5 to Canon iP4500 on Vista SP1

Out of the box, Mac OS 10.5.4 could not print successfully to a Canon iP4500 shared out from a Windows Vista SP1 machine.

On the Macbook, when you goto add the printer and select a driver iP4500 was listed using the "Canon PIXMA iP4500 - CUPS + Gutenprint v5.1.3" driver.  All the setup of the printer goes fine until you print a page only to find it comes out blank!

This issue was described on forums such as http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6339055

This issue has been resolved in newer versions of the Gutenprint drivers: 5.2.0-beta3 fixed the issue for me.  To fix:

1.  Download latest .dmg file from gimp-print.sourceforge.net
2.  Install the drivers
3.  Install the printer and ensure that the latest Gutenprint driver is installed.

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