PIXMA iP4300

el mariachi · 2007-12-24 13:10:55

How can I get the driver for this printer? There's a iP4200 driver in AUR but Canon already provides iP4300's, although it's in .rpm format.

bavardage · 2008-02-20 17:10:33

Bump. Did you ever solve this? Wondering whether there was an easy way, before I dive into rpm hell.

madeye · 2008-02-20 18:43:00

Is there a reason why you cannot use the driver included in the gutenprint package? I have used that since shortly after I bought my iP4300 about a year ago.
The only problem I haven't totally solved yet is the printout on CDs.

I didn't know that canon supplied a linux driver. Any chance that you have a link to the download page? (I tried searching on canon.com, but there was no linux driver listed)
EDIT: nevermind about the link. I found it through the pkbuild file in AUR.

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bavardage · 2008-02-20 19:11:58

How is the resolution with your gutenprint. I remember it sucking rather with my ubuntu installation.

Edit: Oh and have you got canon's driver's working? I seem to be able to send things to the printer over samba (jobs show up in xp job list) but they have 'N/A' pages and don't print.

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madeye · 2008-02-20 20:59:31

Gutenprint - The printouts I have made were mostly text. The photos I did printout looked to be the same as my windows printouts, but I have not tried printing the same photo to compare the two.

Canon driver - I have not had a chance to try the canon driver yet. At the moment I'm fighting with my wireless setup, and I'm too stupid to get it to work

When sharing a printer from my linux box to a windows box I always setup cups to use the raw driver, and the I install a driver in windows instead.

el mariachi · 2008-02-20 22:25:06

Yeah.. Guten is stuck at 600dpi and this printer can go as high as 9600dpi! is there a way to 'unlock' the other options?

bavardage · 2008-02-21 10:47:00

That's what dissuaded my from using it. Maybe I'll have to give it a go, no luck with canon drivers so far - they appear to result in corrupted things being sent to the printer - my xp print queue (using the printer as a share) shows jobs as having 0 pages.

Susu · 2008-02-21 15:53:19

I really recommend to buy a Turboprint licence: http://www.turboprint.info
It's worth every penny and the prints are brilliant.

bavardage · 2008-02-24 13:54:11

I feel like an idiot now. Canon's prop drivers work fine (I had accidentally just disconnected my printer from my xp box).
Is there any point in a wiki page for the canon ip4300 (does the wiki even include pages like that).

el mariachi · 2008-02-24 14:00:31

I still don't know how to use Canon's prop. drivers. Neither I know how to 'unlock' the other resolutions.
I wanted to print some photos using that godly 9600dpi resolution hehe

Turboprint works great, of course... all options and resolutions are available. but I just can't spend 30€ on something that's supposed to be free! gosh i hate this logo on every document you print... great marketing scheme..
I'm actually dual booting Windows Xp just because of this

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madeye · 2008-02-25 18:06:11

bavardage wrote:

Is there any point in a wiki page for the canon ip4300 (does the wiki even include pages like that).

I would like to know how you got the driver working. So I vote for a wiki page.

bavardage · 2008-02-28 17:42:56

Sorry have been away on a geography field trip. Will explain what I did later.
Edit:
Have created a wiki page: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Canon_iP4300
Still needs to have some stuff added about resolution etc, but will do that at some other point (not sure quite when) - have school tomorrow then away for weekend.

Feel free to add bits for turboprint/gutenprint if you have had sucess that way.

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bavardage · 2008-02-29 20:16:50

Update: am no longer away for weekend, so have pretty much finished the section for using canon's drivers. Note: I haven't tested this on any machine but my own and may have missed out something vital. If that is the case, p.m. me, fix it on wiki or post in this thread.

madeye · 2008-03-02 12:46:33

It looks good. i will try it one of these days.
I may be able to write something about the gutenprint stuff. I will have a look at that later this week.

madeye · 2008-03-06 18:10:29

Just wanted to let you know that I updated the wiki page with the gutenprint instructions. Hope you find it useful.

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PIXMA iP4300

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