Canon printer drivers
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Canon printer drivers
What is that unearthly magic you do to keep Canon printers to work - and even better than in Windows?
Is it so, that Puppy (and Fatdog) is the only distro where the Canon inkjet printers work out-of-the-box?
How did you do it?
Is it so, that Puppy (and Fatdog) is the only distro where the Canon inkjet printers work out-of-the-box?
How did you do it?
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Which threads I have left unfinished?
Not this:
And yes, it's the MP140.
Had to change the OS when the old MoBo went bust.
Athlon XP became replaced by i3.
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 084#588084
Not this:
And yes, it's the MP140.
Had to change the OS when the old MoBo went bust.
Athlon XP became replaced by i3.
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 084#588084
I re-read the more recent post here and I'm still not clear about your printer setup. Did these problems with hangups occur when the printer was being used as a server or a local printer? What OS were the clients using? Did the hangups come from using Mint as the server or the client? And how did it become a 64-bit issue?
Are you still running this printer off a Puppy machine using a Samba server? Which Puppy? Which Samba? With the Gutenprint driver? What driver are the clients using? How are you doing it with Fatdog?
Are you still running this printer off a Puppy machine using a Samba server? Which Puppy? Which Samba? With the Gutenprint driver? What driver are the clients using? How are you doing it with Fatdog?
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Well, maybe I was not clear: The problems didn't occur when using Puppy or Fatdog, but with virtually every other distro.
I tried the official Canon drivers, Gutenprint, Foomatic, Michael-Cruz ppa, ...
Nothing worked. But with Puppy/Fatdog it works out-of-the-box.
It looks like my only option is going to be Fatdog. The downside is that in case of a problem, I can't use another Linux to read out the stuff from the disk, because all the stuff is inside savefiles.
I tried the official Canon drivers, Gutenprint, Foomatic, Michael-Cruz ppa, ...
Nothing worked. But with Puppy/Fatdog it works out-of-the-box.
It looks like my only option is going to be Fatdog. The downside is that in case of a problem, I can't use another Linux to read out the stuff from the disk, because all the stuff is inside savefiles.
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The printer is connected to my desktop (running Debian for a change) via USB and CUPS/Samba is used to offer shared access to the printer (and some disk partitions) to other machines in the LAN.
I checked: I booted Fatdog 621 from an memory stick instead of Debian, opened localhost:631 and added a printer: CUPS + Gutenprint.
It worked fine.
I have tried the same with many other distros the same way (and some different ways too) with no luck. Printing starts normally, but at t6he end of the page it starts printing about one line per minute. At the very end, normal printing is (usuallu) back. Printin one page takes about 10 minutes.
With Puppy/Fatdog printing happens a bit quicker than with Windows - not a sign of any problems.
I just have to "advertise" Puppy/Fatdog to everyone loosing his/her mind over PIXMA MP xxx printer problems. ;-D
I checked: I booted Fatdog 621 from an memory stick instead of Debian, opened localhost:631 and added a printer: CUPS + Gutenprint.
It worked fine.
I have tried the same with many other distros the same way (and some different ways too) with no luck. Printing starts normally, but at t6he end of the page it starts printing about one line per minute. At the very end, normal printing is (usuallu) back. Printin one page takes about 10 minutes.
With Puppy/Fatdog printing happens a bit quicker than with Windows - not a sign of any problems.
I just have to "advertise" Puppy/Fatdog to everyone loosing his/her mind over PIXMA MP xxx printer problems. ;-D
Out of topic: You can save your session in a directory instead of in a savefile. Works well if the underlying filesystem is ext2/3/4. With this, no more problems of savefiles getting full; and other Linuxes can read the files too without having to know about loopback mounted file etc.turboscrew wrote:It looks like my only option is going to be Fatdog. The downside is that in case of a problem, I can't use another Linux to read out the stuff from the disk, because all the stuff is inside savefiles.
The easiest way for it to work is to create a directory called /fd64save.ext4 (yes, a directory, not a file) in the root directory of the partition you want to use to keep your session.
Note: this only works with Fatdog, not with mainline Puppies.
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