Installing a Printer Driver on macOS
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2024
- This video shows detailed steps on how to install an inkjet printer driver on macOS. Instead of using the default Apple AirPrint driver, see how to search for and install the specific driver for your printer make and model. This will ensure that you are able to utilize all of your printer's features and printing capabilities.
No freaking way that just worked!!! I have a HP Laserjet 4000TN and installed the first link you provided...thinking I have nothing to lose...even though it's not the same machine. It literally worked in seconds. You're a genius!!!😁
Well I'm glad it works for you. :) These may be the drivers you need if you find you don't have all the features available: support.hp.com/ee-en/drivers/selfservice/hp-laserjet-4000-printer-series/25474/model/14958
Thank you so much. It has taken me a day to find the correct driver for my printer. So easy when you know how!
Awesome! I'm glad you could get your printer set up.
I really cant thank you enough for this video! I feel like you have changed my world! - I never knew my printer could do so many things!!
That is fantastic! Enjoy exploring what your printer can do.
absolutely brilliant ,just brought Epson ET 8550 after searching days trying to figure out how to install epson layout on my Mac , this fixed it thank you .
Great! Enjoy your new printer. You can compare the Epson layout tool to Qimage One. You can download a free trial here: www.binartem.com/downloads/
Dude, this video is fantastic. I couldn't get ICC profiles to load for the life of me, but this did the trick. Thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
Fixed my problem inside the first minute. This guy didn’t waste my time.happy👍
..thanks to your kindness I was able to connect the printer to the internet ........it was a great help !! cheers !!
Great to hear. Cheers!
Thank you! This solved my printer colour accuracy problem. Why can't Apple/Epson make it easier to install the correct driver?
I believe Apple would prefer you use their own AirPrint driver. This makes it easier for the casual user, but more difficult to get the most out of a good printer.
This video just saved me hours of frustration, thank you!
You are welcome!
Thank you so much! You provided the right information, unlike so many others!
Thank you, Kim!
Thankyou I was looking for this video for months 😭
THANKYOU! I spent hours looking for this
If you don't have printer listed, click the little + box, bottom left. If the printed does not then pop up, you have to go to the printer menu and poke around until you find the IP address. Then..Go back to the install printer screen and the little globe at the top, click that, it will lead you to where to install the IP address and you can move forward.
Thank you for this video....it showed me exactly what I did wrong when I was installing my printer w/ the drivers I downloaded
Great! I am glad the video was useful for you.
Can't add a Samsung SCX -4300 to a new Mac Air running Sonoma. No mention of Mac drivers on the Samsung support site. Any work around?
Straightforward, easy. Thank you.
You are welcome!
Thank you for sharing this information. It it’s very useful and explains why I was having issues.
Thanks for the feedback!
Thanks for this! It's solved an issue that I've been struggling with for months. When sharing printers using Parallels for Windows applications the post-script editor would come on and print from the wrong tray, or the wrong size! It's been driving me mad.
I followed this for a Brother MFC model and it now works perfectly. Can't thank you enough. You would be forgiven for thinking the 'software select' option was the Mac finding this driver but it seems not and that you need to get it directly from the supplier.
I'm glad the video helped. Apple seem to want to oversimplify things for the user, with their AirPrint driver, which can limit the functionality of more feature rich photo printers.
thank you so much for replying! . for my other Epson workforce, I had a whole folder with the different drives and scan utilities etc. Can’t remember how I set it all up/ downloaded to get it working so perfectly then and like this. I have a new Epson workforce now . Do / did the folder automatically go to my applications section? And thank you!
oh wow, that is just awesome!!! Thank you infinitely!!
Worked perfectly! Thank you for this.
Helpful and necessary information here. Apple does automagic settings well for the most part, but when you need something else Apple makes things clear as mud. Maddening sometimes!
Thank you! Yes, a lot of what Apple does can simplify things for the user. When you do want to do things differently it can be more work. I'm glad the video was helpful for you.
Thanks for posting this video! Great tutorial!
You are welcome, Susan!
Excellent video. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks! I'm glad you found it helpful.
Just bought a new Mac Air but going to the Samsung site there are no drivers for their Samsung SCX-4300 series or any Samsung printers. Any way to get this Mac Air with Sonoma 14.5 working?
You may still be able to get the printer to work using the Apple AirPrint driver. But this may not provide all the functions that the printer supports. It doesn't look like Samsung have made a driver for that printer for a while.
Thank you so much! Do I need to move the download out of the downloads section to the applications section first don’t I? Or does it just move once we run the drive? And THANK YOU!!!!!!
You should be able to run the printer driver installer from downloads. It will install the necessary files, ICC profiles, etc. into the system folders. Then you can either keep or delete the installer. Most printer drivers don't need to have anything copied to the applications folder.
@@Binartem thank you so much. for my other Epson workforce, I have a whole folder with the different drives and scan utilities etc. Can’t remember how I set it all up/ downloaded to get it working so perfectly then and like this. Do / did the folder automatically go to my applications section? And thank you!
@@paigeme886 If you download and install a specific Epson print utility, that may be copied to the Applications folder. But in general, printer drivers copy files to other system folders related to printing, color management, etc. but not necessarily Applications. So it depends on what type of package you download from Epson (or a different vendor).
Thanks for this video! This is a game changer!
You are welcome!
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!! VERY HELPFUL
Thank you very much!
You are welcome!
Thanks for your help with this video. I am doing ok until you get to 4.02 minutes. When I press + (add a printer) I (Mac OS Big Sur) just get a blank screen with "Search" accross the top and the blank NAME and KIND box. How do I find the installed printer driver from here?
That means macOS can not find any printers to install. Give it a few seconds to refresh. If nothing appears then I suggest you restart your Mac and printer. Also check the connection between the Mac and printer. Is it USB, ethernet, wireless?
@@Binartem Thanks for your help. I figured out how to insert the printer IP address and got itinstalled from there. Thanks for your time.
Hi! Says here that an error occured while trying to add the selected device. Successful-ok-ignored-or-substituted-attributes
Please help. :(
This link might be helpful. Ignore the part about using the AirPrint driver, but if you follow the other steps it may help. appletoolbox.com/error-occurred-while-adding-selected-printer/
Thank you this solved my problem
Thank you. This video is very helpful
Help
Al momento de descargar e instalar el software de la impresora solo dice que se ha actualizado y cuando trato de seleccionarlo al añadir la impresora no aparece. ;(
Es una hp smart tank 520
There may not be a printer driver available from HP for your operating system. Try to use this website to see if a driver is available: 123.hp.com/us/en/. Otherwise, you would need to use AirPrint.
Thanks!
After I downloaded it, it didnt show up when I click on the the printer system preferences
After you download the driver from the printer manufacturer, you need to run the installation package you downloaded. Then you need to follow the steps in this video to add a new printer and select the driver that you just installed.
I’m trying to install the available driver on the canon website for Mac OS 10.6.8 snow leopard. It’s for the Canon Pixma Pro 1. During the install I get a generic error that it failed to install and that I should contact the manufacturer. There are no resources about this.
Is there a way to manually install this? Like run a script inside the package and place the ppd in the correct folder or something?? Last resort I’m doing a reinstall of snow leopard.
Apple dropped support for Snow Leopard 10 years ago. This link shows the last driver released for Snow Leopard for the Canon PRO 1 was 2017: www.usa.canon.com/support/p/pixma-pro-1
If that version does not work you could try contacting Canon. But given the age of the OS and printer, it may be difficult finding resources to fix the problem you are experiencing.
@@Binartem I tried to install the cups driver listed on the site you just sent me about a hundred times and at the VERY END of the installation i get a simple “installation failed” message with no explanation. I wish it would just work. maybe I have a bad copy of snow leopard. I just don’t understand why it won’t install.
@@ionluv I did a search for that error message associated with Canon drivers. One possible solution would be to repair disk permissions on the Mac first. It may be a permissions problem related to files the driver installer is trying to modify. If you search for repairing disk permissions there are several sites walk you through how to do this.
I will give this a try and get back to you. Really appreciate your help. I’m not the most familiar with this old OS but I need it for an old scanner I want to use for film photography and it’s the only way to use it authentically. I would otherwise just use a newer OS where I know the printer works. @@Binartem
You just saved my life
Im using mac os I had error on printer yesterday, I lost my driver's and now just saying idle. I have took the printer off reinstall it and still saying the same. Please help. Two days trying to work it out
if you reinstall the driver and you still can not communicate with the printer, you may need to reset the printing system. Go to System Preferences and click on Printer and Scanners. Then right-click on the left hand side on the list of printers. Select the option "Reset printing system". This will remove all drivers and reset the printing system to a clean state. Then follow the steps in this video to reinstall your driver.
@@Binartem that's what I did and its now idle and can not get it off. Ive got driver back to 11. Thank you for helping me
@@amandawill7743 When you say you cannot get it off idle, do you mean it stays on idle when you send a print job? It could be a networking/connection problem. How is the printer connected to your computer?
Thanks for the information. Out of curiosity, why did you select Epson SC P600 series rather than Epson SC P600 series (IP). What is the difference? Is the IP version a WiFi version of the driver?
Bonjour is typically the default network configuration available used for connecting using macOS. Although you could also use the TCPIP connection as well. There are some advantages to Bonjour, such as network sharing.
How about Epson l3110 for MacBook pro 13 Ventura 13.2
The steps are the same, but the user interface may look a little different on macOS Ventura.
Thanks a-lot your video helped so much
Thank u so much
You are welcome!
This is useful if installing a printer for the first time.. but how do you update a printer that you already have on your system with an updated driver?
I have an Epson Stylus Pro 7880 printer using driver version 10.33 but they have released a newer driver version 10.85
Some versions of macOS will check for updated printer drivers and offer to install them for you, as part of the system check for software updates. However, for the same reason that you want to make sure you are using the official vendor driver (and not AirPrint) the most reliable way is to uninstall the old driver and repeat the procedure for the new driver.
I have a hp office jet 4650 all in one and my scanner is not showing up anymore. wha should i do??
I suggest you contact HP technical support to see if they can help you with that.
Would it be the same for Epson Print Layout?
Epson may be able to communicate with their printers without the use of a driver. You would need to contact Epson support to be sure.
Im using EpsonL120 and upgrade from Catalina to Big Sur. Now I cannot use my printer. I don't know what to do. Please help.
Big Sur probably needs new drivers for your printer. Big Sur also has a nasty habit of updating the drivers automatically and sometimes using AirPrint instead of the driver for the printer. You need to go to Printers & Scanners in System Preferences and delete the L120 driver. Then go to the Epson website and download the Big Sur driver. From there just follow the instructions in the video on how to install the driver.
How to scan
thank you mann! For reall
You are welcome!
How I can find the drivers for samsung ML-1676P for Mac OX 10.14 ? Can you please help me.
Is this an older printer? I can not find much information online, and the driver download only seems to go up to OS X v10.10.
@@Binartem I think too, I even only find OS 10.10 maximum, Is there any way I get drivers for this printer?
@@DilpreetSingh-es3hh You could try using the Apple AirPrint driver. Let the system install its driver for you. It may not provide all of the functionality of the original driver, but it might let you use the basic features.
@@Binartem How I can use by AirPrint , Can you guide it. Thank you so much for your help
@@DilpreetSingh-es3hh Just follow the first minute of the video, where we add the AirPrint driver. If your printer does not show up at all, even for use with AirPrint, then I am not sure you would be able to use it.
thank u so much!!
You are welcome!
How to install laser engraving machine drivers (chinese machines) on mac big sur
This video is focused on photo printing. I recommend you contact the printer manufacturer. I am not familiar with how to install drivers for laser engraving machines, and they may have their own control software.
@@Binartem thanks for the update
How will I add canon pixma 3411 printer
You can download the driver for the Canon printer here: www.canon-europe.com/support/consumer_products/products/fax__multifunctionals/inkjet/pixma_g_series/pixma-g3411.html?type=drivers&language=en&os=mac%20os%20x
Then follow the steps in the video.
THANK UUUUUU SO FCKIN HELPFULLLLL
Not helpful at all my iMac simply wasn’t finding my printer..
Is your printer connected via USB, ethernet, or WiFi? USB will be most reliable. If your iMac still can not see the printer, try using a different USB cable.
@@Binartem Wi-Fi but I think the reason is Ventura does not support printer driver anymore so will be forced to bin a perfectly good printer
@@martinaston1715 What is the printer make and model? Even if there is no driver for the printer, you should be able to use the Apple AirPrint driver.
Yet another 'profuse thanks' comment. Problem solved. I only wish I'd watched your tutorial sooner.
You are profusely welcome! :)
@@Binartem 😂 Well played!
Please help
I have a Mac air, new one and a brother HL2320D ~ the macair when setting up the printer wants me to choose a driver but there are no "brother" drivers to choose from ~ I picked a random one and was able to "add" the printer but it won't actually print the page. the printer works and runs the paper through but no printing on the page. I remember having this problem before with my MacBook but can't remember how I remedied it. any ideas? I need to use USB to connect, no wifi on my printer ~ thank you
I looked up that model and Brother recommends using AirPrint. If your machine does not support AirPrint, download Brother iPrint&Scan from the App Store. I would try one of those two methods first instead of another driver.
@@Binartem I finally got a hold of someone who knew what they were doing ~ he was able to get me set up using a Mac OS lower than my actual one ~ Yeah! I now have printing ability!!
@@womenswellness1577 Great! I'm glad you have it working now.
Thanks, this helped me out a lot.