Customer Reviews

Canon MultiPass MP C545 Color Bubble Jet Printer, Fax, Copier, and Scanner (Mac)

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MultiPass C545 would crash my Mac G3/OS 9.1 on start-up. Canon's solution to the problem was to disconnect the USB plug, before starting, then plug it in after the computer was on.

An excellent printer, good quality, decent print speed. I've had a little problem with it draining ink, but other than that, great item.

I'm reasonably happy with how this printer performs in general, and it does the job as a quick and dirty copier.

However, I was extremely disappointed that Canon apparently doesn't have the slightest intention of writing MacOS X native printer drivers for it. As a workaround, I print my documents to a PDF file and then run Acrobat in the Classic environment to print from there. MacOS X PDF support is excellent, so this works quite well.

Nevertheless, given Canon's disgraceful lack of support, I doubt that I'll ever buy a Canon printer again.

The versatility and light-weight, compact design of this machine made it practically irresistible to an iMac man like me. But after experiencing some communication problems between the printer and my computer, and then noticing that the product is absent from the catalogs of most Macintosh dealers, I was able to determine that the Canon 545 uses a conversion cable for USB compatibility. The Canon 555, on the other hand, comes with "hard-wired", built-in USB capability. Only slightly larger and a few dollars more than the 545, the 555 may be the better bet for most Mac users, at least in this price range.

I installed USB ports into my Macintosh G3 (to attach this specific printer) and finally got the computer to recognize it.... only to learn that the printer wouldn't recognize its own black ink.

It was nice that the printer came with two black ink cartridges (and the necessary cable), but the printer told me that both of them were empty.

Thinking maybe this printer had a unique way of installing cartridges, I actually followed the intructions. Still the same thing happened.

Then I found in their troubleshooting section that I likely had a damaged internal something or other.

I assumed I got a lemon and immediately sent it back to Amazon with the idea of getting another one. But after reading the other less than stellar reviews of this product, I plan to look to another printer.

I am a Mac G3 user and for the price and all the functions this machine performs, I think it is great. I have space restraints and this is the smallest of the multifuntion machines. Probably the only thing I don't love is the quality of the printing, although if you instruct your computer to print on best quality (which is slow) the quality is much better!