Gwen Demulder

Well the past few weeks my macbook has been terrorizing me with fan noise. The fan was working at 6000 rpm instead of the usual 1500-2000 rpm. This also meant that the battery of my machine was quickly depleted which isn’t a nice thing.

It turns out that the printer that was installed, a canon ip3000, somehow made the fans spin like a mad man. After removing the printer from the driver list the fan speed lowered and the remaining battery life time shot up.

So I guess there might be some issues with the canon printer drivers. If you have fans on your mac that spin out of contol you might want to check your installed printers!