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#76 Post by rcrsn51 »

Here are the MX870 and MP210 packages. MX870 driver should be fine, but I'm not sure about the MP210. These older Canon drivers were problematic.

Please report back.
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MX340 driver

#77 Post by KJ »

Where is a good link for the Canon MX340 drivers? I tried the one in the first post a few times and it seems to be down. Thanks .... KJ
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#78 Post by rcrsn51 »

Here is the MX340 driver.
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#79 Post by KJ »

rcrsn51 ..... Thanks for the fast response .... Hope to load it up tonight ... KJ
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Canon Mp270

#80 Post by nz_john »

Has anyone got a link to a Canon mp270 driver?
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#81 Post by rcrsn51 »

Here is an MP270 driver. Please report back with its success or failure.
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#82 Post by KJ »

rcrsn51 ..... Thanks for the MX340 driver pet .... It loaded and works great. Thanks again .... KJ
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Canon Printer Driver Mp270

#83 Post by nz_john »

Thanks rcrsn51 for the quick response.
I just downloaded and installed it. works fine. Puppy version was Lucid 5.1.1
My daughter can now print out her homework on an aging computer with 512mb ram.
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#84 Post by Sit Heel Speak »

rcrsn51 wrote:Here are...MP210 package(s)...Please report back.

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Please reattach. Or put in a PM. Had to be away from the computer for a few days. Thanks.
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#85 Post by rcrsn51 »

Done.
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#86 Post by Sit Heel Speak »

Preliminarily, I can verify that the MP210 driver works at least as well as the Gutenprint+MP180 driver supplied natively with CUPS (in Puppy Studio 3.3), which I had made do with.

Further results by and by as testing proceeds. Thanks again for having saved this.
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#87 Post by rcrsn51 »

Thanks again for having saved this
I haven't. I am building these drivers from the original Canon sources.
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#88 Post by Sit Heel Speak »

Hehe...I should have known. Double-thanks. Say, you don't by chance do mechanical work do you? I just bought this 1985 Mercedes 300D :lol: ...spent this morning in a junkyard in a snowstorm to pull the electric cooling fan from a '93 Volvo 940...now I need a turbo and an intercooler...
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#89 Post by Sit Heel Speak »

Initial enthusiasm was premature. The MP210 driver about 60% of the time prints two copies when I only wanted one. Also has a nasty tendency to break up the page with a thin horizontal white line randomly placed.
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#90 Post by rcrsn51 »

Sit Heel Speak wrote:Initial enthusiasm was premature. The MP210 driver about 60% of the time prints two copies when I only wanted one. Also has a nasty tendency to break up the page with a thin horizontal white line randomly placed.
Sporadic events like that sound more like hardware than software problems.

Do any of the Gutenprint drivers work with this unit?
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#91 Post by Sit Heel Speak »

rcrsn51 wrote:Do any of the Gutenprint drivers work with this unit?
Yeah, back to the Gutenprint+MP180 driver for now.
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#92 Post by vtpup »

Thanks for the new link for Canon MX870. It appears to work fine in preliminary testing (testpage). I did have to update CUPS to 1.3x and add the Canon software CUPS backend drivers per your instructions to get wireless working. All are functioning now. Puppy system tested is 4.3.2 v3.
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#93 Post by rcrsn51 »

vtpup wrote: I did have to update CUPS to 1.3x and add the Canon software CUPS backend drivers per your instructions to get wireless working..
Excellent. Could you please describe what additional steps you needed to implement wireless printing?
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#94 Post by vtpup »

rcrsn51, as I remember it I:
pets:
1.) added canon_mx870-3.30
2.) added cups-bjnp-0.5.4-i486
3.) added cups-1.3.33-i486
4.) setdefprn-1.0.pet
5.) foomatic-filters-4.04-i486
6.) Had to upgrade the GTK 2 backend libs in order to get Gimp to find the CUPS 1.3x printers. (cups-1311-be-for-gtk-2.12.x-i486.tar.gz)

7.) Added port 8611-8614 to puppy firewall

8.) Restarted Puppy (important, not just X)

9.) Set up the printer using manual method (buttons and printer status screen). This includes making sure printer is in wireless mode (not LAN mode) and adding any existing network ESSID, WPA, etc. info according to your needs.

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Problems recently discovered:

1.) The upgrade to CUPS 1.3x removes all existing printer drivers. Many of these took a long time to figure out, and so I've been reluctant to upgrade the other computers on my network until I really am sure that the CUPS 1.3x/CanonMX870 setup is going to work. I will have to record and rewrite the older printer setups if I do convert all computers to CUPS 1.3x

2.) The canon_mx870-3.30 driver does not include B+W printing and only one resolution (600 dpi) is supported. (At least, there are no other options than 600dpi and RGB in the CUPS Printer dialog.) I don't know whether a program can override this limitation on a printout, but it doesn't look like it can.

Color printing of all text documents is impractical as it would be incredibly expensive. The quality is also not very good for text printed in color.

So it looks like this is not going to work out for me, as it stands now. 90% of my needs are for B+W printing.
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#95 Post by rcrsn51 »

The canon_mx870-3.30 driver does not include B+W printing and only one resolution (600 dpi) is supported.
That's annoying. I did a simulated install and I could not find any other options either. Then I checked some other Canon models and they were the same way - just RGB at 600DPI. This driver is built using the "official" .deb packages from the Canon site so there aren't any other options available.

I will try installing my MP490 in Ubuntu and see if it gives any more options.
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