What a pain, I’ve had a really high-quality printer, the Canon Pro 9000 for years now, but Canon has unfortunately stopped supporting drivers for it. I have probably $200 worth of ink left and like my other Canon (which died some horrible hardware death). There was a rumble that the old High Sierra CUPS driver would work and I did download it, but it crashed in setup. I do think it installed something because I can see a Canon Pro 9000 drive, but when I tried to use it, it complained the print head was bad. Sigh.
But, the problem is that the Canon Pro 9000 is great, but Canon stopped supporting drivers as of High Sierra if you can believe it. There is a third-party company called PrintFab that has a driver for it for Euro 45, but when I try to print, it downloads Ghostscript and then hangs at 3%.
So the next thing to try was our new HP Color LaserJet Pro MFP M478, it is hard to tell, but there is a tray 1 that allows printing and you can access that through their print menus. The confusing thing is that they have a setting for 4×6″ and 5×8″ but not the common 5×7″ paper. They also have as usual a bunch of paper that is not supported. So I’ve gone from my days of paper scanning and being able to do calibration. It looks like I need to start all over with a new printer. Sigh.
Printing Passport Photos
While you can go and do this at a store, there is a handy application called Passport Photo, but it is terrible adware now. There are others that are way worse, but this Passport Photo – ID Photo App is one does a great job of taking you through the process and of creating the exact right size (2×2″ for US Passports) and then laying them out correctly in 5×7 or 4×6.
As I said before, the only glitch is that the HP Color LaserJet has some strange settings, in the first menu in Apple Photos, you can print, but it only gives you 4×6 and this strange 5×8 size, then when you print, you get the HP dialog and you can see 5×7 and the size is correct, the left edge gets cut off. Oh well. The strangeness of printing.
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