It is not suppossed to have a mac driver; only the 3100cn possesses this advantage, being postscript compatible. The only way for a mac to print to this printer in color would be to add postscript onto the 3000cn. Unfortunately, I ahve no idea how one would accomplish this.
There are ways to emulate PCL on a mac for black and white printing, but I don't believe they possess color implementation. Your best bet would be to call Dell, claim you were misled, and ask for an exchange to the 3100cn.
mike: I'm glad gimpprint worked, but it doesn't have any color laser compatibility. If they really don't want to exchange it, you might want to look into other implementations like ghostscript, or perhaps get an xp simulator for your mac, in which case you could install the windows drivers and print that way? I can't think of that many options except working your way up the customer support hierarchy. I mean, eventually someone would understand that you bought it by accident, haven't yet actually used the printer, were confused by the sales or technical staff (who are still themselves learning about these new models) and would immediately trade for the 3100cn.
Very best of luck
I recently bought a 3100 cn and installed it on a small network (my office) with only a G5 and the printer on it right now. I will have more stations in the future.
Even though they sold me support, Dell won't cover helping me at all with the Mac. The sales person knew I would be using the printer with a Mac.
Anyone have any idea how to get the Mac to detect the printer on the network so that the driver will show up on my printer list? Alternately, where could I find this info?
Sorry to take so long to reply, I don't scroll back the pages often enough. However, I hope that this will be of some assistance to those performing an archive search through these forums:
What you need to do to configure the network options from a G5 is first determine whether the printer is on the network. To do this: print out the configuration sheet for the printer (using the button commands on the unit itself).
From this you can learn the MAC (physical address) of the printer. You can also learn if it has been auto-assigned an IP from your router.
If an IP address has been given to it, you're all set - just open up safari or whatnot, punch in that IP address, and you're talking to the printer. To set it up to print, go to the print manager, add a new printer as an IP or Internet printing unit (whatever similar option it gives you), and type in the IP address that printed up on the configuration sheet. The Dell CD that came with the printer contains the specific drivers.
If an IP address is not assigned (eg. it reads 0.0.0.0 instead of 192.168.xxx.xxx), then your router is probably blocking it, and this is where you need the MAC (physical) address you got earlier. You need to use your G5 to navigate to your router configuration page (usually 192.168.x.1, where x is 0, 1, or 2). Once there, you need to make sure that you permit that physical address access to your network. You can also assign (with most routers) a static IP, so that you'll never have any configuration problems when the ip renew time comes up.
That's it. Please start a new thread if you experience additional problems.
LoriandMike
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November 23rd, 2004 21:00
The only way to get the MAC driver off of the CD is to have the printer installed on a MAC System other wise you cant get the drivers
MikeJMiller
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November 24th, 2004 00:00
If you have this info, please let me know. This has been a nightmare.
oncall247
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November 24th, 2004 04:00
It is not suppossed to have a mac driver; only the 3100cn possesses this advantage, being postscript compatible. The only way for a mac to print to this printer in color would be to add postscript onto the 3000cn. Unfortunately, I ahve no idea how one would accomplish this.
There are ways to emulate PCL on a mac for black and white printing, but I don't believe they possess color implementation. Your best bet would be to call Dell, claim you were misled, and ask for an exchange to the 3100cn.
Good luck
-oncall
oncall247
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November 24th, 2004 04:00
Very best of luck
-oncall
mvoei
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January 4th, 2005 23:00
Even though they sold me support, Dell won't cover helping me at all with the Mac. The sales person knew I would be using the printer with a Mac.
Anyone have any idea how to get the Mac to detect the printer on the network so that the driver will show up on my printer list? Alternately, where could I find this info?
oncall247
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January 10th, 2005 23:00
What you need to do to configure the network options from a G5 is first determine whether the printer is on the network. To do this: print out the configuration sheet for the printer (using the button commands on the unit itself).
From this you can learn the MAC (physical address) of the printer. You can also learn if it has been auto-assigned an IP from your router.
If an IP address has been given to it, you're all set - just open up safari or whatnot, punch in that IP address, and you're talking to the printer. To set it up to print, go to the print manager, add a new printer as an IP or Internet printing unit (whatever similar option it gives you), and type in the IP address that printed up on the configuration sheet. The Dell CD that came with the printer contains the specific drivers.
If an IP address is not assigned (eg. it reads 0.0.0.0 instead of 192.168.xxx.xxx), then your router is probably blocking it, and this is where you need the MAC (physical) address you got earlier. You need to use your G5 to navigate to your router configuration page (usually 192.168.x.1, where x is 0, 1, or 2). Once there, you need to make sure that you permit that physical address access to your network. You can also assign (with most routers) a static IP, so that you'll never have any configuration problems when the ip renew time comes up.
That's it. Please start a new thread if you experience additional problems.
good luck,
-oncall
mvoei
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January 11th, 2005 13:00