[opensuse] Printer Canon Pixma iP4700
I assembled a new computer (Intel Core i3) and installed Linux SuSE 11.4 but... I can't setup my Canon Pixma iP4700 printer. The /usr/share/cups/model/manufacturer-PPDs folder contains many folders like brother, epson, hp etc. but not a canon. How can I fix this? Best regards, fir delplancke -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 07/25/2012 02:29 PM, fir delplancke wrote:
I assembled a new computer (Intel Core i3) and installed Linux SuSE 11.4 but... I can't setup my Canon Pixma iP4700 printer.
The /usr/share/cups/model/manufacturer-PPDs folder contains many folders like brother, epson, hp etc. but not a canon. How can I fix this?
Canon has a remarkable poor record of working with the open-source community, which might explain the dearth of CUPS drivers for their products. I purchased one of their all-in-one printers a few years ago thinking I'd at least be able to get the printer portion working. Bzzzt. I gave up. I use the printer now by loading their Windows-only drivers into an instance of Win-XP running on VirtualBox. It works well enough, and I can use the Windows to run my income tax program too. Not very satisfying, but it's functional. You might have a look in the gutenprint area, there is some mention of Canon in there. Regards, Lew -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday, 2012-07-25 at 14:38 -0700, Lew Wolfgang wrote:
community, which might explain the dearth of CUPS drivers for their products.
I purchased one of their all-in-one printers a few years ago thinking I'd at least be able to get the printer portion working. Bzzzt. I gave up.
Did you try turboprint? It is comercial linux print drivers. I had to use them to get my old canon printer to print properly. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from 11.4 x86_64 "Celadon" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlATFgsACgkQtTMYHG2NR9WlTQCcC2htnBbsvVH/r4geJXN4U4KS d8EAn3s60BgL4hfY6bNQwNiE91VVrrQC =pUzg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
Hi Fir, Lew is right. Canon has, also IMHO, poor support for their printers and scanner. For your printer, canon provides drivers for it at their web site. However if it is like some of their other drivers it will limit You to a specific resolution and Color printing only. But it will work. As Lew falso mentioned, You also have canon support on Guttenprint. You can try it but, with openSUSE 11.4, it may be difficult for you to find a recent package of it. You may have to build it yourself. Look at the Evergreen repositories for an updated version of Guttenprint. Do not despair. I do have a Multifunction Canon device working on openSUSE. Both scanner and printer over WiFi. Good luck. -- Rui Santos Veni, Vidi, Linux On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 10:29 PM, fir delplancke <fb248366@skynet.be> wrote:
I assembled a new computer (Intel Core i3) and installed Linux SuSE 11.4 but... I can't setup my Canon Pixma iP4700 printer.
The /usr/share/cups/model/manufacturer-PPDs folder contains many folders like brother, epson, hp etc. but not a canon. How can I fix this?
Best regards,
fir delplancke -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
-- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
Hi Fir,
Lew is right. Canon has, also IMHO, poor support for their printers and scanner. For your printer, canon provides drivers for it at their web site. However if it is like some of their other drivers it will limit You to a specific resolution and Color printing only. But it will work.
As Lew falso mentioned, You also have canon support on Guttenprint. You can try it but, with openSUSE 11.4, it may be difficult for you to find a recent package of it. You may have to build it yourself. Look at the Evergreen repositories for an updated version of Guttenprint.
Do not despair. I do have a Multifunction Canon device working on openSUSE. Both scanner and printer over WiFi.
Good luck.
-- Rui Santos Veni, Vidi, Linux
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 10:29 PM, fir delplancke <fb248366@skynet.be> wrote:
I assembled a new computer (Intel Core i3) and installed Linux SuSE 11.4 but... I can't setup my Canon Pixma iP4700 printer.
The /usr/share/cups/model/manufacturer-PPDs folder contains many folders like brother, epson, hp etc. but not a canon. How can I fix this?
Best regards,
fir delplancke -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org Fir: You can find some drivers for Canon all in one printers on the Canon European Web site. These will have to be manually installed. The
On Thursday, July 26, 2012 12:38:04 AM Rui Santos wrote: printer driver works well, the scanner will only work with their supplied program "ScanGear". If you Google there is instructions on how to do the manual install. Hope this helps some. -- Ralph -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
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