This is strange, because my iMac can both print to it, and scan from it, using macOS drivers over the wired network. But when I need it, it’s one of my most essential peripherals: “print a copy, sign it, scan it back in, and send it to us as quickly as possible”, you know the sort of urgent task.Īccording to Apple’s now-abandoned support site, its own drivers for that model only support its printing function, and don’t work with its scanner. With the decline in printing to paper, it has seen very little use. It’s a multi-function system, which prints in excellent colour, scans and copies, all over my wired ethernet network. I have an HP ‘TopShot’ LaserJet 200 colorMFP M275nw – I always like the snappy names that they come up with, they make searching for support so much easier – which is I suppose around seven years old. Between them, Apple and the printer manufacturers have created chaos which will cause many users many problems. It’s actually far worse than that, because Apple’s account doesn’t match up to those of printer manufacturers, and you could easily end up abandoning a printer which could still work as well as it ever has done. For those printers which don’t support driverless printing via AirPrint, you’re on your own trying to obtain a driver from the printer manufacturer’s support site, unless of course you happen to discover that Apple does still support your old printer. As I noted here a few days ago, Apple has now discontinued support for its printer compatibility listing. Ever since, Macs and printer drivers have enjoyed an intimate relationship. Key to that was the way that the Mac could turn WYSIWYG page layouts into PostScript through Apple’s special printer driver. What had been a quaint computer with a small but loyal following was, with the addition of Aldus PageMaker, transformed into the heart of the Desktop Publishing revolution. The product which saved the Mac, and Apple, was its LaserWriter printer of March 1985.
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