Canon MF4150 Printing

I just bought the Canon MF4150 Printer. I plugged it into the Airport Extreme N Base Station. The base station recognizes the printer as the 4100 series and identifies it as the Canon printer.
When I try to go into Printer Utilities and add the printer, in the default browser of the print utility under system preference I see the printer and it shows the connection type as "Bonjour". I try to add the printer, but it requires drivers. I downloaded the drivers off of the Canon website, but it doesn't seem to work or recognize printing over wireless or bonjour.
The selection box "Print Using" Does not contain the proper drivers, but only contains the Mac OS X GIMP drivers. What can I do? When I connect the printer directly via USB, the Canon drivers that I installed "UFR II" appears.
I really want this to work!!! Any ideas?? Is there a way to get this printer to print over wireless connected directly to the Airport Extreme Base Station?

My setup was similar to yours. In the printer browser it shows the Canon MF4100 series, I selected it, and it shows
Name: Canon MF4100 (which is correct)
Location: "My Airport Base Station Name" (which is correct)
Print Using: "Please select a driver or printer model"
The "Print Using" seems to be the problem. I don't see the drivers that I loaded for the USB, and I tried "Auto Select" but it bounces back to "Please select a driver or printer model". I tried using one of the GIMP, but it does not work. I also tried "Other" and a dialogue box popped up allowing me to choose a driver. I looked everywhere for the print driver, but there wasn't a single file I could select to get it going. Any ideas?
BIG SIGH, This is a Mac, and I love it! Why does Canon make it so difficult?!

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Hello all, I am having a nightmare of a time getting my Canon MF4150 to print. It looks from all of the threads on here it was a less than ideal choice for a Mac owner.
When I first bought the unit I managed to get it to print, everything seemed peachy.
Problems arose when I wanted to use the unit to scan. I downloaded a variety of third party software and drivers in an attempt to get the scan function working. I had mixed results, and this process seemed to upset the printing side of things. Once I scanned a document, the printer would then not work.
I abandoned the idea of scanning through the MF4150 and have gone back to dedicated Epson scanner.
Since then I have not had any luck getting the printer to print again.
I have gone through all the MF4150 related threads on these boards I can find, and followed the process to installed outlined here - https://discussions.apple.com/message/7657893#7657893 but to no avail.
I really just want this thing to print and it's driving me nuts.
I have the printer attached directly to my MacBook Pro running 10.5.2. I'm not trying to print through the Airport.
I would like to know how to completely uninstall any UFR II drivers and related software / information and start this process from the beginning again.
So far, using the answer provided by PAHU here https://discussions.apple.com/message/7657893#7657893
I have -
1. Open System Preferences > Print & Fax
> DONE
2. Select the MF4150 printer and press the minus " - " button to remove the printer. Do the same to any other printers that are in the printer list.
> DONE
3. Hold down the Control key and click in the empty printer list. A window showing 'Reset printing system' will display. Click this.
> DONE
4. Close the Print & Fax utility.
> DONE
5. Run the Canon UFR2 v1.70 installer and select Uninstall when the Easy Install menu appears
> This is where I get snagged. I'm not offered a Uninstall option. I have attached a screen grab of the window I am presented with. I am currently trying the "o1141enx_m_ufr224" version of the UFR driver. I have continued to complete the points below regardless of the fact i cannot uninstall.
6. Restart the Mac and run the v1.70 installer again to add the UFR2 files back onto your Mac
7. Go to Applications > Utilities and open Disk Utility. Select the Mac OS X partition in the left pane and select 'Repair Disk Permissions'. When this has completed, quit Disk Utility
8. Open Print & Fax and add the MF4270 again
9. Open TextEdit, type some simple text and select to print.
10. Report back if the above doesn't get you printing.
I have also attach a screen grab of the process I go through when adding the printer.
Any help with this would be amazing. I've tried everything I can think of.
My latest idea is to try and remove any trace of previous printer drivers and go from there. You can see in my list of available drivers in the file attached I now have all sorts of UFR drivers in the list.
Again, if anyone can throw me a line on this that would be great.
Thanks & Regards
Coz

Hello Coz,
It's been a while since you've posted, I hope you have not given up. I was having grief with my MF4150 as well, but got it working. There is a more current driver - search for Mac_UFRII_V230_uk_EN and install it.
Then, when you go to add your printer through System Preferences > Print & Fax, make sure you click the "default" icon in the top of the dialog. It should show your Canon MF 4100 series , then use the bottom drop down menu to choose your driver and select Canno MF410 Series UFRII LT (UK) from the list.

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So I'm trying to help set up a relative's new iMac with Snow Leopard 10.6.8.
I've downloaded V2.24 of the relevant Canon driver for his ImageClass MF4150 printer, and when I set everything up and go to print, I get this:
"Cannot communicate with the printer, or the printer is not supported. If the printer is supported, check the printer connection and add it again. Then, if the print dialog box has a [Printer Info] button acquire the printer information.: 10322"
Very frustrating. Anyone have any thoughts?
Thanks in advance ...
I did search and it seems like many have had the same problem, but none of the fixes proposed have seemed to work for us.

As sig has suggested, the connection from the Mac to the Canon MF4150 is important. The Canon UFR2 driver only supports a direct USB connection from the Mac to the printer. You cannot have the printer connected to a print server, router or a Windows computer.
If you do have the MF4150 connected directly to the Mac via USB then the USB cable could be the cause of the error. As the error message suggests, you can open a document and select to print. From the print dialog, change the menu to Special Features and press the Printer Info button. This will open the Printer Information window and if the connection is good then you should see an image of the printer. If the connection has a problem then an error message will appear stating that it could not acquire information from the printer.

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I have a multifunction printer, Canon MF4150, hooked upto a PC Desktop and I have enabled printer sharing. The printer is detected and works fine on my PC Laptop. However, when I try installing it on my 13" MacBook Pro, the **** thing won't show up. It doesn't show up under the Windows category of Print and Fax so I tried to set it up the way Apple has suggested in their support section. It asks you to go to advance and input the IP address and location of the printer and then select the printer driver. I would post the link but I conveniently can't find it right now. The printer driver is obviously not listed on the list, so I go to the Canon website and download a mac version of the driver and install it. When I check to see if it's on the list now, it says MF4360-MF4390, but not MF4150. I thought I had installed the wrong one but I downloaded and installed it again, and I got the same problem. Anyone have this printer or have a similar problem? Another way to hookup this printer would be much more convenient, is there anyway that the Window tab could detect it? Any help is appreciated!

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Hi All,
Has anyone gotten duplex printing to work on OS X (10.4.9) with the Canon MF4150? They just released a new driver version (1.5):
link: http://www.usa.canon.com/consumer/controller?act=DownloadDetailAct&fcategoryid=3 35&modelid=14444
I installed this over the 1.4 version. The two-sided option (on the finishing tab of the print dialog) is still greyed out.
Canon tech support says that two-sided printing is unavailable on this printer.
However, someone over at macintouch says that they have gotten two sided printing to work on the MF4150:
http://www.macintouch.com/readerreports/printing/topic4318.html#apr13
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Since your option to select this is not available, I'm wondering if it is a detection issue? The UFR2 driver, like the PS driver, cannot be configured via Printer Info > Installable Options. For the iR's, the driver polls the copier to determine what accessories are installed. This is usually done on installation but I have also seen this 'get device info' window appear the first time you try to print. I would try selecting the printer in the printer list and clicking Utility. This will open the UFR2 Print Monitor which will give you info about the printer setup. This may 'update' the driver so that 2 sided becomes available?
Also, I've had issues with the Canon drivers/ppds where one option is greyed-out due to a constraint. For example, to staple a print job the collate needs to selected. But after selecting this, the staple option is still not available. You have to select another menu item, such as ColorSync, then go back to Finishing to select Stapling.
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I have a MacBook 2.16 about 2 weeks old. I've bought an Airport Extreme and am trying to connect my Canon MF4150 into it but whenever I print it just won't happen. The print queue just shows the jobs as "stopped" and I cannot restart them.
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You won't be able to get this combination working. There is something about the Canon UFR2 driver that doesn't 'see' the AEBS USB connected printer. Have a read of my posting on the Airport forum.
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Canon MF4150 not compatible with Lion.

Hello,
I upgraded to Lion and since my Canon Image Class MF4150 doesn't want to print anymore. I checked the Canon's website and no drivers are out yet to support Lion.
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Nic

Hi,
I have a MB Pro running Lion 10.7.2.
I Have a Canon MF4150 also, and recently worked out how to print and scan.
To print you should just download the UFR II Printer Driver V2.30 for Mac OSX 10.4/...
from http://usa.canon.com/cusa/support/consumer/printers_multifunction/imageclass_ser ies/imageclass_mf4150#DriversAndSoftware
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You van try it for free but then you have to buy if you want it.
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A good friend of mine recently bought the Canon MF4150 (on my recommendation) for his home office. He needed to replace his ageing laser printer and wanted a AIO laser with faxing support, preferably from the Mac. According to the specs, the MF4150 did all this, so he purchased the unit and rang me when he couldn't get it working on his AEBS.
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E [26/Jul/2007:13:27:52 +1000] PID 373 stopped with status 82!
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I've been searching but haven't found a solution for my problem, so I thought maybe someone could help.
I'm running a Canon MF4150 laser printer on a Windows2000 server. The printer is shared out and can be accessed nicely through Windows machines on the network. Now I need to print to it from my iMac but can't get it to work.
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