[Nobody]

I am working to move my parents up to OS X. However, they have a home office and like their Canon C635 printer/copier/fax/scanner. Unfortunately, Canon doesn't have any X-savvy drivers, that I have found. In fact, I can't seem to find any multi-purpose printers out there from any manufacturer that is X-savvy. I would simply get them a cheap inkjet with OS X support and make the C635 a stand-alone fax/copier but that would take up more room and forfeit the scanner function.

Does anyone out there know of a good upgrade/downgrade/cross-grade/driver hack/??? that would work? If I can get the printer issue resolved, I should be able to move them to X. Thanks in advance!

--wonderllama

[Nobody]

I don't believe there are any all-in-ones that run in true OS X. The best that can be done is to acquire a printer/scanner/fax/copier machine that runs in Classic. I have one, Epson's Stylus Scan 2000, but haven't opened it because I would rather print in OS X. The problem with reselling it is there is nothing equivalent that will function in OS X available.

If you are satisfied with running in Classic, there are all-in-ones available from Canon, Lexmark and the forementioned Epson. See Apple's OS X Products Guide for details.

I have seen quite a few lamentations over the problem, but no hacks.

[Nobody]

I guess I will have to wait and see. It seems that if OEM's had enough “pressure” from consumers to publish a driver, we might get somewhere. Guess it's another casualty of low market share. images/icons/frown.gif

[Nobody]

I did some more digging based on the Macintosh Products Guide. I may have found a good replacement for the Canon MultiPASS C635: a Lexmark X86.

Here’s a link:
http://www.lexmark.c...ucts/overview/0,1224,MTgzOHwx,00.html

The tech support page says that it supports printing in Native OS X, but you never know 'til you try. Does anyone have any experience using this printer under X?

--wl

[Nobody]

I have an HP 85Gxi that runs in a mixed environment. I have it hooked up to my network of Windows, Mac OS 9, and OS X. I regularly print, scan, and fax from my IceBook in OS X. I am using a HP 175x jetdirect USB-Ethernet print server

Now with that said, I have seen others in these forums with problems with the same printer.