Canon i865, i950 under OSX Tiger - The Solution

I realise that this Blog entry will be a bit boring, because it is technical. My main hope that is that it will help someone else  in a similar position.

I suppose you should know that I have just upgraded to OSX Tiger, in the new Apple operating system.

I was expecting it to be a very simple upgrade, but such was not the case. The biggest problem, by far, was that only one of my printers work to correctly immediately after install.

For someone who does as much printing as me this amounted to near disaster. It turns out  that most problems can be easily fixed by  reinstalling the printer driver and deleting and adding again the printer queue.  All except for my Canon i865.

No help the is offered on the Canon site, and it is taken me three days of foraging on the Internet to find out how to get it to work under OSX Tiger. So here is a tip for anyone in a similar position:

To make a Canon i865 work under OSX Tiger...

1. Open your hard disk.

2. Open the Library folder

3. Open the Printers folder

4. Delete the Canon folder

5. Reinstall  version 232  of the drivers from the Canon site.  (http://www.canon.com)


After your machine has restarted, all should be well.

The only real problem I now have is that CD LabelPrint does not work. I have solved this by switching to Discus.  It's cheap to  purchase and is a much better program for labelling  than Canon's  own.

So then, did this  help you?  I hope so.

As a footnote to all of this, I should point out that I dictated this whole piece of text using the iListen software, which appears to be funky beyond belief.  The only worrying point was when I farted, and it typed “Oh!”. I'm not quite sure what this indicates.

So, Jason, it can be done!

Comments

[Jason Thompson]

I noticed that you worked the fact that you have OSX Tiger, a Canon i865, and voice recognition software into this blog, but nowhere did you mention my satellite navigation system. Does this not strike you as a little self-focussed? Don't get me wrong, it's your blog and you're entitled to write about whatever you like, even it it is a dry and tecnical as this and will benefit only one other person, probably, who will most likely be a geek with no friends anyway, but once in a while a little thought about ME and MY needs would be welcome, that's all.

[Liz]

Ah, Jason .... he mentioned your having SATNAV on MY blog in a vain attempts to make me jealous. Needless to say, it didn't work. I apologise here for the personal slight I made concerning your map reading skills. I'm actually delighted for you that you have SATNAV.

[Jac]

OH! Well - I'm with iListen on that score ;-)

[AndyC]

Yes, Jac - this won't affect you, being a lady, as you obviously don't fart. :)

(or is that mor elike you don't fart obviously?)

[christine]

YAWN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[jenni]

well, in fact, i may be that "only one person" with nobody but a 2 year old screaming in the other room to call my friend. all the same, i have various family members who are in want of a cheerful pictures of her for christmas, and it's my hope your printer solution will work! i am in the process of downloading the 232 driver as i speak, er, type. be sure - as this is far more likely to result in a positive outcome than a negotiating with a toddler over naptime - that i will write again to let you know. in the meantime, thanks for thinking of us friendless AND techknowhow-less people...

[jenni]

me again.

would you be so kind as to be my canon-tech-support for the moment?

i did as you suggested above....after my computer restarted, it asked me to do something in utilities (realign the printer head or something) ...but first, of course, i needed to "add" the computer to my printer list. it didn't show up on a list of options ...and when i then did a search for "canon" or "i865" ...nothing could be found. it's as if the download never occured, even though i followed the download instructions and restarted the computer, etc.

am i missing something??

thanks in advance, if you have the time and patience for this.

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