The Unofficial Canon BJC-3000 Driver for Mac OS X

by Vincent DENIS-LAROQUE

Technical Details

You want to know exactly how I proceeded ? Ok...

Here is nearly the way I proceeded :
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First of all, you must delete any installed printers in the Print Center application, delete /Library/Printers/Canon directory and restart your computer. Then follow these steps :

1. 
   Install the Canon S400 driver for Mac OS X. (S400 and not S400SP ! you can find it at www.canon.com )
   Go to /Library/Printers/Canon/BJPrinter/PMs
2. 
   Open S400PM.plugin and replace all the BJC-3000 or BJC3000 occurrences with BJC-XXXX or BJCXXXX (where XXXX should be an unexisting model!) in the files using HexEdit (It is important to use a hex or binary editor as a text editor will corrupt the binary file).
   Note : Don't rename files in S400PM.plugin ! I mean you must keep all the filenames.
3. 
   Look for « 400 » occurrences and replace S400 with BJC-3000 or BJC3000 (it depends where) only when S400 does not referto a file (S400ColorMedia or co.jp.canon.printer.s400.pde for example). In order to keep the code clean you should replace BJC-55 occurrences (which follows S400) with B5 or BJC6200 with S325. Note : you must keep all S400SP references. (S400 and S400SP are two different printers)
4. 
   in the folder /Library/Printers/Canon/BJPrinters/Ressources/icons, duplicate S400.icns and rename it BJC3000.icns
   Repeat step 3 for the BJPrinterUtility framework file. (/Library/Printers/Canon/BJPrinters/Frameworks/BJPrinterUtility.framework/version/A)
5. 
   Restart your computer, open Print Center and add your BJC-3000 printer.

Note : If you are running Mac OS X 10.2 or later, you must rename S400PM.plugin file to BJC3000PM.plugin. You will find thie file in /Library/Printers/Canon/BJPrinters/PMs