Canon pixma printer drivers
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.
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Last edited by rcrsn51 on Sun 27 Feb 2011, 16:18, edited 2 times in total.
MX340 driver
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
Canon Mp270
Has anyone got a link to a Canon mp270 driver?
Canon Printer Driver Mp270
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.
Thanks Again
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.
Thanks Again
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Sporadic events like that sound more like hardware than software problems.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.
Do any of the Gutenprint drivers work with this unit?
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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.
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.
*****************************************************
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.
Last edited by vtpup on Sun 06 Mar 2011, 19:59, edited 1 time in total.
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.The canon_mx870-3.30 driver does not include B+W printing and only one resolution (600 dpi) is supported.
I will try installing my MP490 in Ubuntu and see if it gives any more options.