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Paddlegirl20
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February 4, 2022
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Canon Printer Airprint and Photoshop

  • February 4, 2022
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Just got a new Canon printer TR8620 apparently everything is Airprint since my last Canon.

  I did try to remove and re add my printer under System Preferences but the only options are "Secure Airprint" and "Airprint." I tried both and my printer still isn't added in printer profile. What should I do?

I still see some old printer profiles choices when I go to print from my phototshop but is Airprint overriding those choices?

Others say printing will not be as good using AirPrint

There are no loner any printer profiless or print drivers available for this machine

Im using OS El Capitian

 

Confusing

Susan

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NB, colourmanagement
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NB, colourmanagementCommunity Expert
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February 5, 2022
Hi, If you only see "Airprint" then it looks like you are using the Mac OSX default "gimp Print" drivers. Go to the manufacturers website and download the printer drivers, then when "adding" in System Preferences.
 
You can clean up the print system like this:

1: Delete all instances of Canon printers from  

System Preferences / Printers & Scanners -or- System Preferences>Print & Fax, whichever you have.

2. Then go to /Library/Printers and trash the whole Canon folder.

3.  Then go to Canon online and download the printer drivers yourself.

Do not let the Mac install the printer driver for you.

 

There’s one more tripwire - in System Preferences / Printers  - - - , when adding the connected printer 

[i.e. click the padlock, enter your password and click the “+” button] 

- watch out for the “Use" selection

 

- I recommend you do not select "Airprint" there under "use", but, rather, manually set "use” to the printer name, which will then call on the manufacturer’s own software rather than the default Apple driver (that’s based on Gimp Print, which misses out some printing options such as specific manufacturers media names). 

 

I hope this helps
neil barstow, colourmanagement net :: adobe forum volunteer
google me "neil barstow colourmanagement" for lots of free articles on colour management
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    Paddlegirl20Author
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    February 5, 2022

    This is message when i go to Canon site for my printer and driver

    "There is no driver for the OS Version you selected. The driver may be included in your OS or you may not need a driver."

     

     

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    Paddlegirl20Author
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    February 5, 2022

    Ah, sadly that’s perhaps because you are using El Capitan, a version of OSX from 2015. Maybe Canon just haven't made the drivers for such an old OSX.

    You may have to give in and update the OSX version - your mac may run OSX Mojave 10.14x well [my late 2012 Mac Mini does fine on Mojave and its a stable OSX version] and it could be Canon might have a driver for Mojave 10.14x. [see notes below on that though, Canon don't show ANY OSX drivers]

    If you go to Mojave, I'd recommend considering an SSD [rather than a spinning hard disk]. As OSX grew its reliance virtual memory usage, an SSD became pretty much vital. 

     

    Apple's Airprint driver will probably get you by in the meantime [ICC printer / media profiles can be made for it],Airprint it does miss some driver features and settings.

    You'd have to use "Photoshop manages color" to get the colour management to work [which I'd recommend anyway]. Unfortunately, standard downloadable ICC printer / media profiles (which inevitably characterise Canon's own driver output) aren't necessarily going to work well with an Airprint driver. Airprint will print differently, so those profiles are unlikely to give accurate results.

     

    You may like to contact Canon about the driver, though, I went to their downloads page for the TR8620 and NO Mac OSX system, even the latest, showed driver availability! That doesn’t seem right?

    I hope this helps
    neil barstow, colourmanagement net :: adobe forum volunteer:: Co-Author:Getting Colour Right
    google me "neil barstow colourmanagement" for lots of free articles on colour management

     


    Hi
    Thanks for ur help
    I always use photoshop manages files
    And sadly Canon has no drivers for any of the Mac OS
    Dumb
    This My 3rd Canon printer
    Did like them
    Photos do look pretty good but wondered if any color managed selections I
    make are even changing
    The photo
    Thanks again
    TheDigitalDog
    TheDigitalDog
    Inspiring
    February 4, 2022

    Airprint doesn't support profiles or this kind of color management. You should continue to search for a native Mac driver FROM Canon, not Apple. No, Airprint isn't as good and this is one major reason why.

    Author “Color Management for Photographers" & "Photoshop CC Color Management/pluralsight"
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