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Here is an MP270 driver. Please report back with its success or failure.

rcrsn51 ..... Thanks for the MX340 driver pet .... It loaded and works great. Thanks again .... KJ

Thanks rcrsn51 for the quick response.
I just downloaded and installed it. works fine. Puppy version was Lucid 5.1.1
My daughter can now print out her homework on an aging computer with 512mb ram.
Thanks Again

rcrsn51 wrote:Here are...MP210 package(s)...Please report back.

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Please reattach. Or put in a PM. Had to be away from the computer for a few days. Thanks.

Done.

Preliminarily, I can verify that the MP210 driver works at least as well as the Gutenprint+MP180 driver supplied natively with CUPS (in Puppy Studio 3.3), which I had made do with.

Further results by and by as testing proceeds. Thanks again for having saved this.

Thanks again for having saved this

I haven't. I am building these drivers from the original Canon sources.

Hehe...I should have known. Double-thanks. Say, you don't by chance do mechanical work do you? I just bought this 1985 Mercedes 300D ...spent this morning in a junkyard in a snowstorm to pull the electric cooling fan from a '93 Volvo 940...now I need a turbo and an intercooler...

Initial enthusiasm was premature. The MP210 driver about 60% of the time prints two copies when I only wanted one. Also has a nasty tendency to break up the page with a thin horizontal white line randomly placed.

Sit Heel Speak wrote:Initial enthusiasm was premature. The MP210 driver about 60% of the time prints two copies when I only wanted one. Also has a nasty tendency to break up the page with a thin horizontal white line randomly placed.

Sporadic events like that sound more like hardware than software problems.

Do any of the Gutenprint drivers work with this unit?

rcrsn51 wrote:Do any of the Gutenprint drivers work with this unit?

Yeah, back to the Gutenprint+MP180 driver for now.

Thanks for the new link for Canon MX870. It appears to work fine in preliminary testing (testpage). I did have to update CUPS to 1.3x and add the Canon software CUPS backend drivers per your instructions to get wireless working. All are functioning now. Puppy system tested is 4.3.2 v3.

vtpup wrote: I did have to update CUPS to 1.3x and add the Canon software CUPS backend drivers per your instructions to get wireless working..

Excellent. Could you please describe what additional steps you needed to implement wireless printing?

rcrsn51, as I remember it I:
pets:
1.) added canon_mx870-3.30
2.) added cups-bjnp-0.5.4-i486
3.) added cups-1.3.33-i486
4.) setdefprn-1.0.pet
5.) foomatic-filters-4.04-i486
6.) Had to upgrade the GTK 2 backend libs in order to get Gimp to find the CUPS 1.3x printers. (cups-1311-be-for-gtk-2.12.x-i486.tar.gz)

7.) Added port 8611-8614 to puppy firewall

8.) Restarted Puppy (important, not just X)

9.) Set up the printer using manual method (buttons and printer status screen). This includes making sure printer is in wireless mode (not LAN mode) and adding any existing network ESSID, WPA, etc. info according to your needs.

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Problems recently discovered:

1.) The upgrade to CUPS 1.3x removes all existing printer drivers. Many of these took a long time to figure out, and so I've been reluctant to upgrade the other computers on my network until I really am sure that the CUPS 1.3x/CanonMX870 setup is going to work. I will have to record and rewrite the older printer setups if I do convert all computers to CUPS 1.3x

2.) The canon_mx870-3.30 driver does not include B+W printing and only one resolution (600 dpi) is supported. (At least, there are no other options than 600dpi and RGB in the CUPS Printer dialog.) I don't know whether a program can override this limitation on a printout, but it doesn't look like it can.

Color printing of all text documents is impractical as it would be incredibly expensive. The quality is also not very good for text printed in color.

So it looks like this is not going to work out for me, as it stands now. 90% of my needs are for B+W printing.

The canon_mx870-3.30 driver does not include B+W printing and only one resolution (600 dpi) is supported.

That's annoying. I did a simulated install and I could not find any other options either. Then I checked some other Canon models and they were the same way - just RGB at 600DPI. This driver is built using the "official" .deb packages from the Canon site so there aren't any other options available.

I will try installing my MP490 in Ubuntu and see if it gives any more options.

Thank you for all your work anyway rcrsn51.

The real problem is Canon's lack of support of Linux, historically. I had the same problem, as I remember it now, with my old Canon S600. That was why I eventually went to Turboprint.

No relief there though, either. Unfortunately, my present version of Turboprint doesn't include the MX870. And I refuse to send those folks any more money after they stranded me without support a couple months after I bought, it unless I bought a newer version.

I eventually worked around the earlier problem by analyzing Turboprint's installation procedure, and I may need to go even deeper again here. What a pain. Printing in Linux is the biggest obstacle to easy acceptance, I believe.

Looks like Canon has a new combined Linux printer/scanner package here?

http://software.canon-europe.com/software/0038683.asp

I booted Ubuntu 10.10 off its Live CD. It detected my MP490 but had no driver for it. So the only alternative was to go to the Canon site, which would have gotten me the same driver and PPD as in Puppy.

I looked at the combined package. It just appears to be the existing printer and scanner drivers bundled together.

I just installed a Brother MFC-J415W and was quite impressed. It has a full set of printing options. Both wireless printing and scanning were dead easy to set up.

The moral is, buy Brother, brother.

Thanks again.

Hi,

Am rather new to this puppy world. Have a network here with a canon MP620 wirelessly attached. It's being used for ages with my windows machines. However now I have this old laptop which is running puppy 5.2 for my daugther to do some schoolwork on. Would be nice if she could printe sometimes too.

Is any of the files mentioned here ready to be used on this system?

THIA


edit: The printer is available via the network on an ip adress, so I do not mean to find it via wifi. Puppy is connected tot the network on ethernet.