How to setup Canon Selphy CP900 printer…: Apple Support Communities. Thank you redogg for the solution.
Other people also found that turning off the Selphy, installing the software from the link above and rebooting the machine, turning on the Selphy and then adding the printer fixed it. Canon generally has good mac support.
The latest driver on Canon’s website for OSX 10.8 will work with 10.9 Mavericks but requires editing the Distribution file inside of the SELPHY CP series Printer driver_6.2.0.1.pkg file. I was able to get it working by doing the following.
- Download SELPHY CP series Printer driver_6.2.0.1.pkg from canon.com
- Open the .pkg file with Flat Package Editor (FPE) which is part of the X Code auxiliary developer tools.
- To access FPE find the Packagemaker.app inside of the Auxiliary Tools.dmg that you can download form Apple Developer (https://developer.apple.com/downloads/index.action) search for packagemaker
- Once you find Packagemaker.app right click on it and show package contents
- Browse to Contents > Resources > Flat Package Editor.app *launch it
- Open the SELPHY CP series Printer driver_6.2.0.1.pkg with FPE
- See the Distribution File? Yes, drag it to your desktop.
- Open it with Textedit
- Around line 11 you will see
function installationCheck() {
if ( (system.compareVersions( system.version.ProductVersion, ‘10.8’ ) == -1) || (system.compareVersions( system.version.ProductVersion, ‘10.9’ ) != -1) ){
- Edit the 10.8 to be 10.9
- Edit 10.9 to be 10.10
- Save the file
- Go back to FPE
- Select the Distribution File and hit Delete
- Drag the edited Distribution file form your desktop back into FPE
- In FPE Save the file.
- This now will allow you to install the driver on OSX 10.9
- If you get a security prompt saying that you can not install because the file is unsigned then
- Go to System Preferences > Security & Privacy > General and give it permission to install form there
- Once you do all this go to System Preferences > Printers and click the + to add a new printer. It took about 30 seconds for the Selphy to show up but it did and installed without further issues.
You can download the edited driver pkg file that I used to get my Selphy CP900 to work with OSX 10.9 Mavericks at
https://www.dropbox.com/s/igdkf2hey22vj61/SELPHY%20CP%20series%20Printer%20drive r_6.2.0.1.pkg
I hope this helps you out. Canon should be ashamed for not fixing this sooner. It takes 15 minutes.
If this solution doesn’t work try this suggestion for 10.10.
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