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Problems printing with OS X Lion and 4.1.18 ***SOLVED***
I've read and read all the workarounds to get my Canon MP530 printer via my NV+'s print spoller to work under Lion. I've tried every configuration of drivers and "tricks" to get the printer to talk to...
I had a slightly different problem and I think I've solved it. Just bought a Lion-based Air and initially was able to find, install, and use my old Canon i550 served by my ReadyNAS DUO using Bonjour. However, when I updated my NAS image to 4.1.18, I completely lost the ability to print, even though Bonjour could see the printer. I needed to update to utilize the Time Machine fix to be compatible with Lion.
On top of this I also run VMWare Fusion with Win7-64bit as a client. This complicated things (later).
Reading the forum, I finally was able to get Mac printing to work with smb://192.168.X.X/Canon_i550 (note that the previous suggestion to include username:password in the address did not work for me). Once added as a printer, the first time you print you are asked for username and password -- check the box to save in Keychain. Important--don't use the "Send Test Page" as the first printing--this doesn't trigger the password request. Had no problem using the pre-existing, Apple-supplied driver. All good so far.
Then I went into my virtual machine and could not use the pass-through printer automatically set up by VMware. My guess is that the subsystem isn't able to retrieve the user/pass from Keychain.
Oddly enough, I use IP printing from my Windows computers, specifying http://192.168.X.X:631/printers/Canon_i550 as the address. This didn't work from the Win7 VM. I finally realized that the VM was set up with my WORK user/pass, not my HOME user/pass, and so it failed to authenticate. So I tried this on the VMWare Win7 system:
http://username:password@192.168.X.X:631/printers/Canon_i550
Now both systems can print! HOWEVER, it is clear that the 4.1.18 update killed Bonjour printing. I'm looking forward to the next version to simplify things once this is fixed!
On top of this I also run VMWare Fusion with Win7-64bit as a client. This complicated things (later).
Reading the forum, I finally was able to get Mac printing to work with smb://192.168.X.X/Canon_i550 (note that the previous suggestion to include username:password in the address did not work for me). Once added as a printer, the first time you print you are asked for username and password -- check the box to save in Keychain. Important--don't use the "Send Test Page" as the first printing--this doesn't trigger the password request. Had no problem using the pre-existing, Apple-supplied driver. All good so far.
Then I went into my virtual machine and could not use the pass-through printer automatically set up by VMware. My guess is that the subsystem isn't able to retrieve the user/pass from Keychain.
Oddly enough, I use IP printing from my Windows computers, specifying http://192.168.X.X:631/printers/Canon_i550 as the address. This didn't work from the Win7 VM. I finally realized that the VM was set up with my WORK user/pass, not my HOME user/pass, and so it failed to authenticate. So I tried this on the VMWare Win7 system:
http://username:password@192.168.X.X:631/printers/Canon_i550
Now both systems can print! HOWEVER, it is clear that the 4.1.18 update killed Bonjour printing. I'm looking forward to the next version to simplify things once this is fixed!
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