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Vamp898

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From: 東京

Registered: 2009-01-03

Posts: 907

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Canon Pixma MP-540 (and other) does not work with Cups 1.4

Since Cups 1.4 my printer does not work

its 100% about Cups 1.4 beceause after an downgrade to 1.3 it worked perfect. After upgrade to 1.4 again nothing worked.

So my question, could there be maybe a package called cups-legacy. I heard about other Canon printers + non canon printers which not work with Cups 1.4 in case of binary distributed drivers

jskier

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From: Minnesota, USA

Registered: 2003-07-30

Posts: 383

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Re: Canon Pixma MP-540 (and other) does not work with Cups 1.4

I've been trying to get my Pixma MX860 to work in Arch 64bit... Cups 1.4 sees it on the network, but can't print successfully. I'll try downgrading, compiling an older cups now. Thanks for the heads up, I was blaming myself for the shortcoming

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PirateJonno

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From: New Zealand

Registered: 2009-04-13

Posts: 372

Re: Canon Pixma MP-540 (and other) does not work with Cups 1.4

I had a similar problem with my MP780 and solved it by adding a custom udev rule. See http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Cup … ermissions. This is my udev rule:

SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ENV{DEVTYPE}=="usb_device", ATTR{idVendor}=="04a9", ATTR{idProduct}=="1707", GROUP:="lp", MODE:="0660"

and lsusb output:

Bus 001 Device 003: ID 04a9:1707 Canon, Inc. PIXMA MP780 Scanner

. Hopefully this will be fixed by hal/devicekit/udev upstream but it all seems a bit of a jumble atm, to me anyway.

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jskier

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From: Minnesota, USA

Registered: 2003-07-30

Posts: 383

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Re: Canon Pixma MP-540 (and other) does not work with Cups 1.4

Hmmm, mine is a network Printer though. And I can't even print a test page as root.

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surfed

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From: Vienna Austria

Registered: 2009-10-30

Posts: 86

Re: Canon Pixma MP-540 (and other) does not work with Cups 1.4

Check this link:
http://www.lbsharp.com/wordpress/index. … ux-system/

jskier

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From: Minnesota, USA

Registered: 2003-07-30

Posts: 383

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Re: Canon Pixma MP-540 (and other) does not work with Cups 1.4

Jay is me on that site

It's resolved for me, albeit different than anyone suggested (using Gutenprint as I mentioned on that site).

Now my scanner that previously did work, won't work in Linux after not using it for a month (I have started another thread for that).

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