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  • Installing Canon LBP 3100 on OSX 10.6 Snow Leopard

    Posted on December 12th, 2009 Nattl 10 comments

    Upgrading my Mac from OSX 10.5 Leopard to 10.6 was quite easy – at least more easy than I originally expected. Nearly everything worked out of the box and just a few applications needed some minor tweaking. However, when it comes to printers it’s always a game. If you are lucky and the printer-driver ships with the new version of the operating system, everything is fine. But if not – well, then you might run into problems.

    I have one of these printers which are not supported by OSX 10.6: the Canon LBP 3100, a very cheap laser-printer. After upgrading my operating system, the printer was not recognized. Unfortunately the Canon printer-support page did not provide an up-to-date printer-driver and I nearly thought: okay, Nat, that’s it, get you a new printer. But being a tinker when it comes to computers I didn’t give up so fast. And after playing around for some 10 minutes I found a solution which is very easy. However it is not so obvious to find out about that. As I’m pretty sure that there are people out there banging their heads on the wall having a similar problem I thought it would be nice to share my solution with you.

    The first step is to download the latest printer-driver from the Canon homepage. I don’t provide a link as by the time you are reading this they might already provide a newer driver. But I’m confident that you can search for the correct driver using your favourite search-engine :)   (just be careful that you download your driver from the manufacturers page only!).

    After downloading the driver you open the .dmg-file and install it. It asks you for admin-username/password as usual. The install process is quite annoying as the installer insists that all other applications are closed during the installation. If that’s not enough it forces all open applications to close immediately – so be careful if you have any unsaved documents open.

    As soon as the drivers are installed open the print&fax-preference pane in the system preferences:

    print-faxClick the +-button to add a new printer. You might have to unlock the controls by clicking at the lock in the bottom left corner of the preferences-window (you’ll need the administrator-password here). A new window opens in which you can enter your preferred printer:

    add-printerIn the bottom left corner there is a button “More Printers…” . Please note that this button is only visible if you installed the correct printer-driver. Click on this button and a new window appears:

    more-printers

    Here you should find the correct printer-driver. Click on it, then click on the Button ‘Add’ and the printer is installed.

    As you can see, it is not that difficult if you know what to do. It might not be the most obvious way but nevertheless it works fine for me. Hopefully this little tutorial was helpful for you.

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