I am also in the market for a compatible scanner with the following features: I would like to stay under $200, but willing to go higher for a solid purchase. Quality photos with separate compartment for photo paper Can anyone provide personal experience of a reliable printer that is compatible with the following features: Supposedly my Officejet 6500 is compatible, however after several weeks of research and trying every type of reboot, update, etc., it still prints crooked or just prints partial pages.

The Cannon website clearly shows that the PIXMA MX850 is not compatible. I recently upgraded to OS X Yosemite (Currently 10.10.5) and neither of these printers will work correctly with my iMac. I have had these printers for several years with no complaints. However, for some reason after I am taken to the CUPS page, I cannot find the 'Add printer' link anywhere on the home screen, or any of the others screens.I currently own an HP Officejet 6500 and a Cannon PIXMA MX850. Hope this helps and the instructions were clear.Īlso, before I tried using the Advanced tab, I tried adding the printer in CUPS by logging onto as lawrencedudley suggested.

Drag the Advanced icon to the toolbar and you're all set! Just point the cursor on the toolbar (next to any old icon) > right click/ ctrl-click > Customize Toolbarģ. As metiure said: 'To reach this area, you first open the Print & Fax System Preferenes panel, then click the plus sign at the lower left corner of the window.'Ģ. Here's how I got to the Advanced tab to show up on toolbar mwayne:ġ. Press that, and there you'll find the Tiger functionality hiding!įirst of all, thanks so much metiure for this awesome post! I couldn't believe after upgrading to Leopard (10.5.1) that Apple would remove the advanced option from the Print & Fax preferences.and sure enough they didn't.

Well, to get the Advanced tab choice, I had to customize the Add Printer toolbar: there you can add a handy Advanced button. Maybe you remember in Tiger: when we needed to add another printer in the Advanced tab, we held down the Option key while pressing Add, and the next screen would pop up the 'Print to Windows via SMB' option. No matter what I tried, only Bonjour, IP and AppleTalk printers were available to install, but not my usual Canon PCL. Usually in Tiger, I connected to it via SMB in our local windows server, like _of_server/name_of_printerīut with Leopard, I just couldn't add any shared SMB printer. The first thing I tried at work, after installing Leopard today, was to add a printer, which is a Canon PCL.

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