Apple Releases Snow Leopard Printer Driver Updates

I always end up using gutenprint drivers in SL. guess that's what I get for having a 7 year old printer still kickin' around.

Yey, more printer drivers! I always love apple updating my drivers for me. Beats browsing manufactures websites for the new ones

And Apple still cannot properly support the Canon printer I purchased from an Apple store.
*sigh*

The DeskJet 930c was fully supported in Leopard and now in SL it uses ugly Guten Print drivers. I don't know what changed so radically that they can't use the Leopard drivers in Snow Leopard as well.

I thought OS X's Window server had paper quality compositing. If so, shouldn't printers drivers all be tiny little programs that just copy the file through? (except for older non-PS/PDF printers)

And Apple still cannot properly support the Canon printer I purchased from an Apple store.
*sigh*

Check your driver has actually been updated - mine didn't at first :(

Software Update downloaded a delta update (about 8.5MB) but didn't actually update my Canon printer driver even though on the support KB it states my model has received an update.

I tried removing my printer, rebooting and re-adding, but it still used the old driver. Only when I manually downloaded and installed the full Canon printer update package did the new driver take :rolleyes:

I have an HP P1505 mono LaserJet and the delta update worked for me. The full size update is like 384 MB so I wouldn't download it if your printer is now fully supported - mine is. Check first.

Rich :cool:

Just updated my HP drivers. Went from version 5.4 of the drivers to 16.1. That's a big sounding upgrade. I thought to myself "Will it go to work for me, too?" But, no. In previous driver updates for SL, the drivers maybe went from 5.3 to 5.4. But going from 5.4 to 16.1? Haven't seen too much of a difference yet.

Snow Leopard still doesn't support scanning for my Brother MFC-4800. I sure hope they didn't forget about it. =(

I bought an HP CM1312 Printer and Scanner AFTER I purchased a Macbook Pro running Snow Leopard. I still cannot SCAN ! Thats ridiculous. I report back IF this updates finally fixes this issue.