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lykwydchykyn

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Registered: 2013-07-11

Posts: 91

Canon Pixma Pro-100 advice

A dear sweet family member gifted me a Canon Pixma Pro-100 printer this holiday.  I don't really need this big hoss of a printer, but it was a gift and I'm trying to make it work in our all-Linux household.

Canon has no drivers, and from what I've gleaned, it isn't supported by the latest gutenprint drivers release.  This thing isn't your garden-variety inkjet, it's a fancy-pants photoprinter with 8 different inks and 11x17 support, etc. 

If I want to shell out 30 euros, I can get TurboPrint, which will support it, but I'd rather not have to spend money to get a gift printer to work, especially when I really don't need any advanced functionality from it. 

On the off chance, does anyone own this printer?  Do you have it working in Linux?  Any advice on how I can utilize this thing without spending money on proprietary software or using the Legacy OS?

If I can just print photos decently that'd be fine for me.

EDIT: tried postscript drivers, they didn't work.  It doesn't even respond to a print job.

Last edited by lykwydchykyn (2014-12-29 04:06:12)

f4

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Registered: 2025-02-14

Posts: 1

Re: Canon Pixma Pro-100 advice

Still no luck ten years later... BUT ElementaryOS (Ubuntu-based) apparently has a driver for this printer. Trying to find out how to obtain it for others. BTW, this printer even does up to 13"x19"!

Last edited by f4 (2025-02-14 19:34:21)

walkingstickfan

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From: USA

Registered: 2021-05-10

Posts: 113

Re: Canon Pixma Pro-100 advice

Are you certain that Canon doesn't provide a Linux driver for the printer? I ask because I had a CanoScan scanner years ago and I couldn't locate a driver on the Canon USA site. However, the Canon Europe site did have a Linux driver...go figure.

Last edited by walkingstickfan (2025-02-15 14:51:49)

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Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 13,730

Re: Canon Pixma Pro-100 advice

It does look like canon only has windows and Mac OS drivers .

Most( all ?)  of the pixma devices are consumer oriented and canon typically only provides linux/unix driver for enterprise devices .

Try asking the elementary OS developers how they do it.
Once you found that out, maybe their method can be ported to archlinux (start a new thread).

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Closing this old thread.

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