Several requests about getting the scanner working on their OSX Lion install with the Dell 3115cn have made me write this post. Some have had trouble getting it to work through SMB. So here goes instructions on how to get your scanner working with OSX Lion via FTP. Please note that this doesn’t actually work the way one might first expect. When most people think of connecting a scanner to a computer they think of the computer doing the work by prompting the scanner to do the scanning. This isn’t actually the case with the 3115cn. It has the ability to do a scan server which is how we will set this up.
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Category: Dell
Many people have contacted me about a 3115cn printer driver for OS X Lion. Unfortunately Dell hasn’t released a driver for it, and the old installer packet required Rosetta even in Snow Leopard. On a developer box I installed the driver and then created an install for the 3115cn to work on OSX Lion. I hope I have everything included, but please let me know if you are having trouble with the installer package.
**UPDATE – Youtube Video showing install of printer ***
**UPDATE – this is a new driver and now works with Lion Fresh install verses upgrade! (should work with either now)
OS X 10.7 Lion is finally here and works quit well with few exceptions. I don’t like the natural scrolling but that might before another post. With the discontinued support of Rosetta my Dell 5100cn OSX driver fails to load. This was always an issue in Snow Leopard as well because I really hated installing Rosetta just for a printer to be installed. Lion doesn’t even give that option and I hate thinking I’d have to get rid of a printer just because of a hardware release.
Update:
Use the following packaged by Jeff (Thanks Jeff)
5100 Installer
