Printers Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Printer patents portend driver-free future

by Michael Grothaus (Aug 15th, 2011)

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office published two patents in the past week that suggest Apple is trying to eliminate the much-loathed printer driver. As first noted by ConceivablyTech, the two patents each describe a way for your Mac to get the necessary driver information from the printer ...

Canon printer drivers hitting Software Update

by Chris White (Apr 14th, 2011)

As if Safari and iOS updates weren't enough for one day! Do you use a Canon printer (including all-in-one printer/scanners) with your Mac running Snow Leopard? If so, you have an exciting new update waiting for you. There's no indication of what the new Canon Printer Drivers 2.5 version actually ...

Macworld 2010: Steve and Mike's excellent HP adventure

by Steven Sande (Feb 16th, 2010)

One of the highlights of TUAW's visit to Macworld Expo 2010 was a pre-show tour of the HP booth on Wednesday, February 10. HP has a long and storied history with Apple, with both Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak working for the company at one time before founding Apple. The company has created many ...

Apple releases updates improving printing, scanning, iSight cameras and QuickTime

by Joachim Bean (Nov 19th, 2009)

Over the past few days, Apple has been releasing updates for printer and scanner drivers in Snow Leopard, iSight cameras in LED Cinema Displays and QuickTime 7 for Windows. First, Apple released printer driver updates for Snow Leopard for Lexmark printers and Brother, Canon and HP printers and ...

Apple lists Snow Leopard-compatible printers and scanners

by Dave Caolo (Sep 1st, 2009)

I'll come right out and say that I don't like scanners. Granted, I haven't used any high-end models, but in my experience, scanning a simple image to my Mac was akin to piloting a space module. As a chimp. While Mac OS X Snow Leopard includes a great number of scanner (and printer) drivers, some ...

Better printing with Gutenprint

by Todd Ritter (Feb 15th, 2009)

Gutenprint (formerly called Gimp-Print) is an open-source package of improved printer drivers and utilities that can be installed on Mac OS X to enhance printing functionality and add additional support for older printers. It has driver support for over 1300 printer models, and adds a GIMP plugin ...

Apple posts Canon/Brother print driver updates

by Cory Bohon (Jun 6th, 2008)

Yesterday Apple posted Brother Print Driver 1.1. Apple says that the update includes updates for "drivers for printers on your system." Apple also posted an updated for Canon printer users. Canon Print Driver 1.1 provides updates for "drivers for printers on your system." You can download these ...

Network Magic: Simplify Mac and PC networking

by David Chartier (Aug 28th, 2007)

The Mac and PC networking challenge is legendary. If you have both on a home or work network, it can be an adventure to get these two machines to see each other, share files or printers. Fortunately, Pure Networks has an app for both Mac and PC called Network Magic which hopes to change all that, ...

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