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Raw & Post Processing, Printing => Printing: Printers, Papers and Inks => Topic started by: keith_cooper on March 19, 2011, 07:40:45 am
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During testing, I left the paper lever up, during the final stage of adding a new custom media setting to our 8300.
This managed to lock up the MCT (Mac), even though the printer restarted when I lowered the lever.
Unfortunately, the media type I was working on is now registered in the driver, but appears as '*' on the printer.
I'd thought of just deleting it, but no, it only appears in the full media list, not custom, and as such can't be deleted
(http://www.northlight-images.co.uk/content_images/8300/mystery_media.png)
(http://www.northlight-images.co.uk/content_images/8300/mystery_media2.png)
Pics from my iPF8300 diary (http://www.northlight-images.co.uk/reviews/printer/canon_ipf8300.html)
I repeated the custom media setting process and now have a custom paper set for the paper I'm testing, but can't find any way to delete/rename the old '*' one.
Any thoughts?
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Other than calling Canon tech support and having them tell you, my hunch is that the driver wrote that to a .plist file (or something akin to that). I'd find out if all users of the computer see that or only you.
Then I'd start nosing around in /Users/<kcooper>/Library/....... (possibly in Preferences or Application Support) for a file w/ 'canon' in the name and if the file is a .bplist, you can use the plutil command to convert it to XML, edit it and convert it back.
Or it may have written the data system-wide to /Library/Printers/Canon
Or worst case, uninstall driver and re-install.
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Thanks for that, however the printer display panel also shows media type * installed, but I can't see any facility via the front panel, to edit/delete media settings.
The * media setting doesn't seem to cause any difficulties, just it shouldn't be there :-)
Fortunately I have a visit from Canon next week, so i'll add it to the list of things I'd like answers to...
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it's probably going to be one of those 'turn the power on while holding 3 different buttons while singing God Save the Queen' solutions. ;D
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Keith,
I had the opposite situation you had... I had a phantom media type for Crane Museo Silver Rag that didn't show up in the MCT. I ended up resetting the printer and then doing a factory sync with the MCT (which also restores custom media types... bad interface). I'll search around a little later and see if I can find the specific directories where that file might live. Unfortunately in the case of the MCT, I think it uses a database with media names and if that db is corrupt... Hmmm... I'll take a look and see if I can figure it out.
Cheers, Joe