To talk to a networked Dell 1320c Color Laser Printer using OS X 10.4 follow these steps.
Download the driver for the DocuPrint C525 from here: http://www.fujixerox.com.au/support/drivers/307
Double click the icon to install after it downloads. When the install is finished you can delete the installer.
From the Apple menu open System Preferences and select Print & Fax.
Click the + to add a printer.
Select IP Printer.
Select for the Protocol: Line Printer Daemon - LPD
Type the IP address: 192.168.1.177 or whatever it happens to be assigned on your network. You may need a Windows machine to configure an IP address OR you can look at your routers DHCP table for where it was assigned. After you know this you can actually log into the printer from your web browser to change any settings.
Name the printer “color laser” or whatever you’d like it to be.
For Print Using select: FX
Next select FX DocumPrint C525 A-AP v1.2 in the box below.
On the next screen you must select 250 Sheet Feeder is as an option. Otherwise it will only manual feed.
Click Ok.
Print something.
Paper Source is not automatically selected on this printer. It won’t print unless you set it. This is found in the printer options called Printer Features. The paper should menu should be set to Auto or 250 Sheet Feeder.
Do a Save As… for the Printer Profile. So you don’t have to check this every time the set that Profile as the Default.
The steps for OS X 10.5 are nearly the same. The difference is that you don’t have to download the driver from the website.
NOTE:
There is NO way to set the main paper tray so it is remembered. You have to do it manually each time or make a Setting that you select before printing. See the screen shots below.
November 15th, 2007 at 12:08 am
Hey, This is brilliant! Thanks for the info.
One thing. How do I get it to print from the tray in InDesign CS3 on Leopard?
Give it a whirl to see what I mean. I can’t seem to find the right preference to switch over to tray.
Thanks!
November 28th, 2007 at 10:41 pm
Hi,
This looks great. What I’m wondering is:
I bought the printer thinking it would work with mac via USB. Do you know how to set this up to work with USB instead of over a network?
Thanks,
Corey
January 16th, 2008 at 8:42 am
Hi,
Thank you very much, I am so happy. This works just perfect.
May God bless you.
January 16th, 2008 at 3:02 pm
What about using the printer with a Mac over USB rather than a network?
Thanks,
matt
January 16th, 2008 at 3:51 pm
I’ll check it when I’m back in the office. there isn’t any reason why it shouldn’t work. but it very likely won’t. please stand by.
January 17th, 2008 at 2:56 pm
I have a new Mac and am unable to print on my Dell 1320c Printer via my Linksys Router. I’ve installed the DocuPrint C525 A-AP driver, and have added the printer. But, it’s still not working for me. I think the process is breaking down after I enter my IP address. I’m not being prompted to “select FX” or any of the steps that come after entering the IP address. Any thoughts as to what I am doing wrong?
January 17th, 2008 at 3:05 pm
Hold down the green Continue button on the 1320c for five seconds then release it. 3 pages will print. On the first page in the Network section will have a listing for the IP address of the printer. Make sure that is what you are using after selecting “Line Printer Daemon - LPD” protocol.
January 17th, 2008 at 5:46 pm
Thank you for the help. I can now print for the 1st time using my Mac!!
However, I still have one issue. I have to manually feed the paper into the printer. I have selected the 250 sheet option, but I’m unable to locate the “printer features” section?
Thoughts?
January 18th, 2008 at 12:36 pm
Me too. I can send a print job to it, but it doesn’t use the 250 sheet tray, keeps wanting to print to the manual tray. I can find any option to select which tray to use when i want to print. Using Leopard 10.5.1
Thanks
January 19th, 2008 at 7:50 pm
Well, I tried to install DocuPrint on my Intel iMac 10.5.1 and got the error that this software could NOT be installed on this mac…Any suggestions?
January 19th, 2008 at 8:19 pm
If you have 10.5 you don’t have to download the driver from the website. It’s already installed as part of the new OS.
January 21st, 2008 at 6:26 am
Thanks but, when I print out the 3 pages of specs the IP is listed as “autoIP”
I have an intel mac with EP on it but no clue how to find the IP under windows.
The printer is currently plugged into an airport express via USB but I also have the network card installed in it.- should I just send it back and get the next model up that I Mac compatible???
January 21st, 2008 at 2:08 pm
Right, I used the driver that came with the OS, but there doesn’t appear to be any option anywhere to change what tray to print to. I did select the option for 250 sheet tray, but it seems to default to manual no matter what.
January 21st, 2008 at 5:46 pm
There is no way to change the default tray to the 250 Sheet Feeder so that it selected every time you print. The best way to make “it stick” is to make a Preset for the printer after you select the correct paper tray from the Printer Features tab. Then select the preset each you print.
January 29th, 2008 at 4:55 pm
I am having the same problem with my printer regarding manual feed. I have the 250 sheet tray selected and this still happens.
Any idea. Also using Leopard
January 30th, 2008 at 6:06 pm
Thank you for the images. I was missing the little triangle icon to give a preview and also more features. Makes sense now! Thanks a million!
January 31st, 2008 at 10:41 am
Nope. It still doesn’t print. It does send the job to it and the printer wakes from standby, but the status light and tray lights just blink green. I did select to print from the 250 sheet tray, but it just doesn’t go.
February 7th, 2008 at 1:10 pm
Same issue as Charles. Charles, if you stick a sheet of paper in the single feed and then press the continue button it will work, but I don’t think that’s an ideal solution for anyone.
Cheers,
Kevin Druff
February 9th, 2008 at 7:55 am
Ok here is the deal, this is excellent by the way. Now in I see people who are having trouble getting the printer to keep printing from the 250 sheet tray, this is easy, just create a “preset” under where you select the printer, I named mine “normal” once you do that it ill remember to not only print to the tray but also should stay on normal always until you change either printers or presets. There is some weirdness, namely the fact that MS Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint) wants you to do either “command +P” or file and print, because for whatever really crazy reason it seems using the “print” shortcut from the toolbar will do nothing other then get you some flashing lights on the printer (because it will be trying to use the wrong tray) so please do remember to choose print in this way otherwise it will be a no go. Every other program I tested, Mail, Safari, etc. Do not have that problem, you are free to use the “print” button’s in the toolbars. I hope this was helpful, and good luck. Oh, and FYI Leopard used DO NOT need to download the driver its already in there and its a bit newer then this one is as well, its version 1.4. When you add the printer instead of choosing “Auto-detect” pick “choose driver” and it will give you a list with a search box, and in the box type “FX” which will narrow the choices to two, then select the one with 1.4 in the name, and you should be good (making sure you select the 250 sheet option on the configuration window your presented with).
February 15th, 2008 at 6:06 pm
Nope. I’ve done all that. I never use the quick print on the toolbar. I always use file, print. I did create a preset with the 250 tray as a default. No matter what I do, it always tries to print to the manual tray. I am using leopard, and I did not download the driver, I am using the built in FX driver. This is the only printer I have ever had this much difficultly with. Granted, it is a great printer and in Windows I have ZERO problems with it. I wish dell would just release the stupid mac driver. I need to print to it, so I do all my work and open XP in parallels and print from there. Real PITA.
March 7th, 2008 at 8:11 pm
I’m having the same problem with the print job being sent to the printer, but it always requires a manual feed…not really acceptable to have to manually feed every print job.
Just curious, but do the folks here that have the manual feed problem have their printer connected to the router or to a Windows pc? I have mine connected to my XP Pro SP2 pc via USB (haven’t bought the network adapter from Dell yet), and the printer is shared. If I follow these directions, but add the new printer as a Windows Printer instead of an IP Printer (as suggested above), the printer is found and configured correctly, but every print job to it requires a manual feed, page by page.
Just wondering if I going the IP Printer (network adapter) route would fix the manual feed problem.
March 20th, 2008 at 11:45 am
I tried this fix and it seemed to work, but the files just sat in printer’s queue forever. Anyone know what that might mean?
March 21st, 2008 at 2:29 pm
Hi-
I too bought this printer, thinking I could hook up with my macs & my new Dell PC.
My networked Macs are all running 10.3.9
Will I be able to print to this 1630 thru my network - if the printed is hooked up
to a PC (via usb) or must I buy the network card ($50) which then makes this NOT a cheap home color laser. Let me know…
if it’s truly a headache then back to Dell for the Refund!
tks
jb
March 21st, 2008 at 2:30 pm
oops… meant 1320c model….
March 30th, 2008 at 8:03 pm
Hi-
I have the 1320 working via USB on a mixed network.
The dell is connected to a PC via USB and I’m able to access it from
my Mac. I downloaded the driver as listed above… and setup the printer
on the Mac thru Windows Printing. I just need to work out the bug with
the printer tray… but from an OSX program - it printed. Using native 9.3.9
system programs… the Dell was not shown in printer dialog boxes.
April 2nd, 2008 at 9:12 am
Thanks - just what I needed to get the printer working.
May 28th, 2008 at 7:24 am
I have an XP machine that my Dell 1320c is hooked up to. The printer does not have its own IP#. I have allowed sharing on the printer and XP machine.
I’ve added the printer via Windows/my domain/my XP/my printer and applied the driver above on my MacPro OSX 10.5.2.
When I attempt to print to it, it goes through to the queue and the status hangs in “waiting for authorization” and even after I sign in again with my domain user/pass it never prints; says logon failed.
I also went thru Default and found/added my XP and printer. Again, the same failure.
Any suggestions?
Thanks from a new mac user.
May 28th, 2008 at 8:45 am
I have not tested using printer sharing with XP. so I have no idea what the steps are to make it work without an error. the only suggestion I have is to buy the Dell Ethernet Adapter for the printer (it’s like $50) because I know that works. you could spend hours on the other solution without ever making it work. value your time. good look.
June 1st, 2008 at 6:47 pm
THANK YOU to everyone on this thread. My Dell (with network card) now works on my home network, no PC in site (Got the printer free with a new work PC)
June 4th, 2008 at 11:10 am
I’m having a problem
I have the dell printer connected via usb to my g5 with leopard. The problem is that it prints, but looks awful. My computer tells me it is because im printing postscript to a non-postscript printer. Is there anyway around this??
thanks!
June 4th, 2008 at 11:23 am
there is a thing called “Ghost Script” that does a pre-render for non-postscript printers. it’s supposed to be built into Leopard and Tiger. but it might not work over USB. we have never tested the printer connected via USB.
June 5th, 2008 at 6:31 am
Thank you. I did try that but it comes out the same. The color is just.. awful on this printer. The temperature is far too warm. I think I may have to get a new printer.
June 13th, 2008 at 5:12 am
Got another question. The printer IP seems to jump around: was 10.1.1.3 now 10.1.1.4. It’s a networked one via my router. Any ideas why the printer ip changed and how to keep it the same ?
June 25th, 2008 at 4:32 am
I too can’t get the printer to print. Following the instructions above is all good until I choose the inbuilt driver on OS 10.5.3. The closest driver I can install is X DocumPrint C525 A-AP v1.4 - this does not have the option in “Options & Supplies” to select the Printer Features which I think is where I’m failing.
Paper Source is not automatically selected on this printer. It won’t print unless you set it.
Anyone know of a workaround?
June 25th, 2008 at 4:44 am
Worked it out - the file > print dialogue box rather than the printer driver settings are where the options for Printer Features can be revealed - only if you select the drop down next to the printer dialogue box and change the settings above the ‘print background’ setting.
June 26th, 2008 at 4:44 am
Hi,
Has anybody found a driver that directly accesses the printer - and can be utilized in Leopard, and can someone please explain how to access the printer on Leopard as well as how to change what tray it prints from, is it possible for people who have had some success to extract the driver from their system and upload it, i am using an intel mac using Dell Inspiron 1520 - Iatkos 2.0i.
Thanks
Reece
June 26th, 2008 at 9:58 am
the driver for the 1320c is built-in on Leopard. there is no need to “extract” it. just follow the directions above leaving out the “download” part. there is NO WAY that we know to make Tray 1 the default in the driver itself. you can make and save a Preset that will do the setup for you however.
June 27th, 2008 at 5:47 am
Hi Again, yes I understand that - but see I am using IATkos 2.0 which is a system of mac for x86 machines such as my Dell Inspiron 1520 - the coders have removed these drivers, which is why I am requesting these drivers, also when I try it I get a standard or restricted set of settings, where “Print Features” can not be seen. Please if any one could extract it from System/Library/Extensions and upload it, that would be great.
Kind Regards,
Reece
August 6th, 2008 at 6:28 am
if you are having problems downloading the driver (it does not show up in my 10.5 install) then go to the Fuji Xerox site mentioned, there are several 10.x drivers there, some are not for osx, I cant remember which one I used but one of the 10.3 ones worked fine on osx 10.5
August 21st, 2008 at 9:36 pm
will this work for a dell 948 usb printer?
August 22nd, 2008 at 9:34 am
these specific steps? no. that printer looks like a rebadged Lexmark. so that would be your first place to look. I don’t have one of these printers. and unless Dell sends us one for whatever reason I don’t have access to one for hacking.