Printer drivers under Mac OS 10.6 Snow Leopard are still sometimes causing trouble. After explaining how to reactivate an OKI-printer – here is the solution for an Kyocera-Mita-printer and as always: no guarantee and on your own risk: Problem: After updating from Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard to OSX 10.6 Snow Leopard the installed printer driver for the Kyocera-postscript driver does not work anymore. Here it’s an Kyocera Mita FS-2000D but it should also work with other models. The printer diver was installed under Leopard and worked quite well.
After finishing the update to 10.6 you are able to send a print job to the printer, but an error message shows up in the print queue. Diagnosis:There are incorrect file permissions under Snow Leopard fort he Kyocera printer driver and this causes some trouble. BTW a warm thank you to for his diagnosis and solution! Solution:There is nothing like fixing the bug yourself ? You can easily fix the problem by one command in the Terminal:. Log into your Mac as an administrator. Open the program “Terminal” – you’ll find it under “Programs/Utilities”. Input the following command into the appearing command-line window and finish it with pressing the return-key.
This is printing as a line printer, of course. I can get to seeing the Kyocera drivers and to “Printer Ready”, but no banana — it won’t print. “Unable to contact printer” it says. I’ve tried all sorts of variations of reinstalling the driver, redoing the Terminal line. By the way — Kyocera Australia kindly sent me a “Kyocera OS X 10.6 permissions patch” with installer.
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I presume this was basically the same as the fix you offer. That didn’t work either. The really big question though is: what on earth is wrong with Apple? They killed AppleTalk?
Was something wrong with it? Like they cut out default installation of Rosetta?
Are we all supposed to have the very latest apps? Where did “plug and play” go?
Are they crazy? I am really p.ssed off with them. Cheers, Geoff Geoffrey Heard The Ad Doctor Online. Hello This Terminal line here (or its equivalent) is now being distributed from Kyocera download sites as an installable “permissions patch”. The key to my being unable to print with the line above or the patch in place was that I wasn’t getting the message that I had to set up the TCP/IP components in the printer to match those of the computer.
My friend, Kino, advised me about this as follows: First of all, you have to choose an address which is not used by any other Mac. To check for addresses already used by a Mac, open Network System Pref pane, select “Ethernet” and hit “Advanced” button to open the setting sheet. In my Mac mini, I see “IPv4 Address: 192.168.1.100”, “Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0” and “Router: 192:168.1.1” in TCP/IP tab. My PowerMac G4’s IPv4 Address is “192.168.1.101”.
As I don’t have another Mac, something like “192.168.1.109” should be OK.for me. — These numbers worked for me. You need to go to the printer’s control panel, press “Menu” then work your way through to TCP/IP. Make sure it is turned on, then change the numbers it gives so that the Subnet Mask and Router (Gateway) are the same as on the numbers the Mac has. Then change the IP Address to one like the Mac but a few numbers different. Now — Launch /Applications/Utilities/Network Utility.app, switch to Ping and send 10 pings to the IP address you’ve set up in the printer. If it works, you are in business, if not, check for errors in setting the number and putting it into the ping thing.
This must work before proceeding further. Then — in Print & Fax System Pref., add a new printer. – Click on the IP graphic at the top. – Leave the protocol at Line Printer Daemon (or set it to IPP if you like). – Type the correct IP address in, leave the queue blank for the default to fill, give the printer a name and name its location (or not if it is just local). I gave my printer its EtherTalk name — I’m used to it.
– Select the printer driver. At one point it came up “FS-3800 — Gutenprint 5.2.3”, at another, and eventually as FS-3800 – KPDL2. My mate Kino suggests using the Gutenprint one because it comes with OS X.6, but I’m using the KPDL2, which is all it offers me now. BLOODY APPLE — what happened to PLUG’N’PLAY??? Cheers, Geoff Geoffrey Heard The Ad Doctor Online. I tried using terminal and when I add the command it asks me for my password. Unfortunately, the password does not work.
I know the password is correct since I used it to add other software updates. I am logged in under admin. The only other option in user accounts is guest.
I have both a KM 3035 and KM 5035. Both are older machines. KM did not have a snow leopard patch specifically for these machines. When I download the patch for the other machines it comes up as a.sit file. When I try to expand that it tells me there is no file to open. Any help would be appreciated. For some printers, a 10.6 Installer appears in the Kyocera list, e.g.
FS-C5100DN, but not for others. I have an FS-1920, but tried installing this file (PPD 8.4) anyway, but still using the FS-1920 ppd file. The printer still hangs sometimes, as the previous job never finishes (It does really, but stays in the list).
Nothing happens unless it’s “deleted”. I’ve also installed usbtb, and changed the kyofilter permission as above. But, today I looked at the Log file – see Logs in System Profiler: error log, and it says: “E 06/Jun/2010:12:40:09 +0100 Filter directory “/usr/libexec/cups/filter” for printer “KyoceraFS1920″ not owned by root”, which it’s said for every print job since 28th May, when there was much forcing of cupsd to quit.
So, as it’s saying it’s the path to kyofilter that’s not owned, I used “sudo chown root:wheel /usr/libexec/cups/filter/”, and this has stopped the error report. Now, if only I could stop the “Collated” box always being checked in the Print dialog pane!
I know I could save a new Preset, but I need to print from Filemaker and its options don’t appear, unless using “Standard”. @Bhavin In case you have yet to find a solution, please note: for the Permissions Fix to work, you.must have. a password assigned to your Administrator account. Go to SYSTEM PREFERENCES ACCOUNTS and choose your account. Create a password. Then, reboot your machine (and log-in, if necessary). Now run the script.
When prompted, enter your password and press “Return”. Note that when you enter your password, you won’t see any of the characters you enter. You’ll find the script and instructions here: Note: “When keying in the Administrator Password, the Terminal window will keep the Password Masked so it will not display any change in the window when the characters are being input.If there is no password assigned, one must be created before running the OSX10.6 solution file.”.
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