Canon ip6700D not coming up in printer utility

[Galbot]

Hey everyone,

I have a Canon Pixma ip6700D printer attached to a PC. I am trying now to connect it to my macbook over the server but i cannot seem to be able to. I have downloaded a macosx driver for the printer and still nothing.

HELP!!!

thanks.

 

[gsahli]

You can't use a Canon-supplied driver for this, because it's limited to USB. You need to use a CUPS driver. Update the Gutenprint (CUPS) drivers here:
http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/MacOSX.php

 

[DeltaMac]

Canon has CUPS drivers for a number of their printers. The IP6700D is no exception:
http://www.usa.canon.com/consumer/c...oadDetailTabAct&fcategoryid=357&modelid=13363
Can't tell you if that will actually work to share from a Windows system.

 

[gsahli]

I can tell you that it has been reported many times on Apple Discussions that the Canon CUPS drivers are still monolithic drivers - that is, they still only work for the comm protocol they were written for using the Carbon print API. This means they bypass the standard CUPS networking backends.

But, this is a Mac - you can readily learn this stuff by trying these ideas/drivers.