IPF 9400 printing after update to catalina (10.15.1)

[jadeccs]

Having troubles printing after updating to Catalina.  Is there a driver update in development or any solutions?  print and job disappears after hitting the print spooler.

[shadowsports]

Greetings,

I think you'll need to contact Canon about this.  1-800-423-2366

The printer is approx 7 yrs old.  Hard to say if it will get Catalina specific driivers.  I'd call, as the best we can do is guess.

[bellevuefineart]

I see Catalina drivers here: 

https://www.usa.canon.com/internet/portal/us/home/support/details/professional-large-format-printers...

[jadeccs]

Those drivers are from 2013 and are 32bit.  I ended up pulling an old 13" macbook out of storage and sharing the IPF9400 printer.  Seems to be working just can't run media configuration tool anymore.  Thanks for the help

[jadeccs]

I ended up pulling an old 13" macbook out of storage and sharing the IPF9400 printer.  Seems to be working just can't run media configuration tool anymore.  Thanks for the help

[bellevuefineart]

The Catalina driver formac10.15.0 is 32 bit?

[jadeccs]

I'm guessing, canon has not gotten back.  The only driver that shows up is an ICC Profile.  If you select 10.5 from the drop down no drivers are available.  

[bellevuefineart]

I'm sorry. You're right. I didn't see this at the bottom of the page: 

There is no driver for the OS Version you selected. The driver may be included in your OS or you may not need a driver.

Nice workaround by the way. I use the network to mitigate a lot of little bugs between devices. It's nice to use as a middleware layer between devices that need to talk.

[shadowsports]

I think Apple's decision to stop supporting 32bit applications in 10.15 Calatina is going to hurt more than help people who like jadeccs has a mature but perfectly good/working piece of hardware.      

[bellevuefineart]

I think you're right. Apple's decision to stop supporting 32bit applications was a bad move for consumers and every company that supports the Apple OS. It has to be very tiring for a company to keep with writing drivers non-stop to support Apple's constant OS updates. And I've looked and looked, and the bulk of these updates only benefit Apple SW and services, pushing people forward at break-neck speed so they can sell more of their own goods and services. 

Certainly I have an upgrade coming for my camera room, and it will not be Apple. Windows 10 is compatible with some legacy hardware I use that is worth tens of thousands of dollars, and Apple is out.