Hello, On Aug 30 10:35 Felix Miata wrote (excerpt):
It would be really nice if whatever changed in CUPS that broke the proprietary Canon driver post-11.2 was reverted. It's a shame CUPS needs be so complicated that a big international company like Canon seems unable to produce a printer driver compatible with it.
The basic CUPS interface how the cupsd calls external programs (so called "filters" and "backends" in CUPS speech - see "man 7 filter" and "man 7 backend") like printer driver programs is stable "since ever". For details see http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Using_Your_Own_Filters_to_Print_with_CUPS and http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Using_Your_Own_Backends_to_Print_with_CUPS how everyone can make his own filters and backends for CUPS. I do it, other users do it, free software projects do it, HP does it, Canon fails. It's a shame that a big international company like Canon seems unable to make a printer driver for CUPS while another big international company HP makes "since ages" free software drivers for most of their printers and all-in-one devices (HPIJS, HPCUPS, and HPAIO in HPLIP) that are provided out-of-the-box in the Linux distributions and additionally HP provides an open communication with the HPLIP developers on http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/index.html Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH -- Maxfeldstrasse 5 -- 90409 Nuernberg -- Germany HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendoerffer -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org