CUPS: How to configure a dynamic IP for a printer?

Gen2ly · 2012-05-01 12:38:58

I have a Canon MG5220 (5200 series) printer. I've installed CUPS and it's drivers correctly; however, when I went to add it through the CUPS interface, it did not discover it. I read a Linux-related article that Canon uses it's own network protocol: bjnp. I then installed cups-bjnp backen from the AUR and though CUPS did not discover it I was able to assign a static IP and then print to it:

bjnp://192.169.1.103

The concern I'm having is that this may not always work. In fact, I'm pretty sure that it will not if I say have to restart the router again. Does anyone know of a way to do this?

Side question: Does anyone know if I have to use the bjnp package for a canon printer still? Mention of the bnjp protocol was from an article a couple years ago and would figure that they would have added more protocols by then.

Last edited by Gen2ly (2012-05-01 17:36:33)

Lone_Wolf · 2012-05-01 16:37:26

Check cnijfilter-mg5200 3.40-9 from AUR, it should be the correct driver for your printer.

Most routers have an option to give a device always the same ip-address through dhcp .
If your router doesn't support that, chances are it only gives a specific range through dhcp, often this range starts at 100.
Set the ip-address to something like 192.168.1.2 manually on th eprinter, disable dhcp for it and it should work.

Gen2ly · 2012-05-01 17:33:55

Thanks Lone_Wolf. Configuring the router seems to be a good way to go. On the Cisco Linksys WRT120N, there is a button on the main page that says, "DHCP Reservation". In it I give a name to it and the MAC address of the device. Thank you, did the job.

ewaller · 2012-05-01 17:45:28

Have you looked at Avahi ??

Gen2ly · 2012-05-02 20:14:05

ewaller wrote:

Have you looked at Avahi ??

Yeah. Thanks for responding ewaller. Ran avahi-discover and didn't see anything.

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#1 2012-05-01 12:38:58

CUPS: How to configure a dynamic IP for a printer?

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