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As predicted, Apple’s latest Sonoma 14.1.2 (update December 1st 2023) once again breaks the Canon Pro1000 Printer driver by overwriting the print system, which causes a double profiling error. Apple has continuously messed with the printing system on every significant OS update in recent years and has continually broken the Canon Pro1000 printer driver in each update. Apple’s need to continually mess with colour management and their need to try and control ‘everything’ has proven highly frustrating for those of us who print with Canon Pro1000 printers and who care about accurate colour. Each update necessitates a deletion of the corrupt Canon driver, followed by a hard reset of the entire printing system and re-installation of the Canon Pro1000 printer driver. There are many things I love about Apple products, but Apple! Please leave the printing system alone! We do not want your stupid Air Print un colour-managed system! Leave our third-party drivers alone!

Perhaps the worst part of Apple’s need to control the print system and 3rd party drivers (such as those for the Canon printers) is that many people will not even be aware of the issue and may not recognise the problem or know what caused it, or how to rectify it. Double profiling errors can be some of the hardest to diagnose, and Apple’s need to control the entire print system (including third-party drivers) is causing many unnecessary headaches. My advice for those of you working with Apple computers and Canon Pro1000 printers is NOT to install any subsequent updates to your OS once you have your printing system functioning in a stable and reliable manner. Lock your system down and ignore all but critical security updates. Or, be prepared to continually reset your printing system with each Apple update, reinstall your printer driver and start from scratch.