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Haroon

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From: Germany

Registered: 2017-02-14

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[solved] Installing a printer with cups

Hello everyone

I finally made the switch from windows to linux, but there is a lot to learn and setup until I get comfortable.

I'm can't configurate my printer with cups. I have a Canon i-Sensys MF8050Cn. I can't seem to find a driver for it on openprinting.org and the driver I downloaded from the Canon Homepage states, that its supported for ubuntu and debian.
My printer is patched into my LAN, I can find the printer with the cups gui, but I cant get it to work with the available drivers.
This is my first time using cups and trying to install a printer in linux.

Please let me know if I need to provice more information.

Regards.

Last edited by Haroon (2017-05-27 12:40:28)

jasonwryan

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Re: [solved] Installing a printer with cups

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Canon_CAPT

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Lone_Wolf

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Re: [solved] Installing a printer with cups

According to canon europe support the i-Sensys MF8050Cn is an UFR II printer, not a CAPT printer.

Haroon, you'll need to install cndrvcups-lb-bin or cndrvcups-lb & cndrvcups-lb-common from AUR .

I suggest you start with reading up on AUR and makepkg in wiki .

P.S.

I maintain cndrvcups-lb and cndrvcups-lb-common , here's some background on the packages :

cndrvcups-lb-bin uses binaries created by canon, the others build from source .
Both use the same tarballs from canon.

Many users don't notice  a difference between the packaages ,
but there have been cases where binary worked and didn't.
The reverse has also happened.

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Haroon

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From: Germany

Registered: 2017-02-14

Posts: 24

Re: [solved] Installing a printer with cups

Thanks a lot for the help.
The printer works now. I had to use lpd with the ip instead of the autodiscover hostname. Since I always got the error, that my printer was not found.

I used yaourt instead of making it myself. I know its lazy, but I just wanted the pinter to work for now. I will look into makepkg and aur at another time.