[gentoo-user] Canon LBP7100Cn/LBP7110Cw printers

[gentoo-user] Canon LBP7100Cn/LBP7110Cw printers

[Hervé Guillemet]

Hi,

Canon LBP7100Cn/LBP7110Cw now have an official linux "support" from the
manufacter with their driver Linux_UFRIILT_PrinterDriver_V100_us_EN.tar.gz .
I have spent 2 days trying to make it work on gentoo, without success.
Even people on Ubuntu, which is a distribution supposed to have been
tested by Canon, fail to use it.

Did someone meet some success printing on these printers from gentoo ?
I can provide a preliminary ebuild if someone is interested.

-- 
Hervé

[gentoo-user] Re: Canon LBP7100Cn/LBP7110Cw printers

[James]

Hervé Guillemet <herve <at> guillemet.org> writes:


> Canon LBP7100Cn/LBP7110Cw now have an official linux "support" from the
> manufacter with their driver Linux_UFRIILT_PrinterDriver_V100_us_EN.tar.gz .
> I have spent 2 days trying to make it work on gentoo, without success.
> Even people on Ubuntu, which is a distribution supposed to have been
> tested by Canon, fail to use it.


Gentoo suggest to use this driver package:
net-print/gutenprint

for canon printers, via this document:
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Printing#Gutenprint_Driver

> Did someone meet some success printing on these printers from gentoo ?
> I can provide a preliminary ebuild if someone is interested.


Sorry I've never worked on setting up a canon printer.


hth,
James

[gentoo-user] Re: Canon LBP7100Cn/LBP7110Cw printers

[James]

Hervé Guillemet <herve <at> guillemet.org> writes:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> Canon LBP7100Cn/LBP7110Cw now have an official linux "support" from the
> manufacter with their driver Linux_UFRIILT_PrinterDriver_V100_us_EN.tar.gz .
> I have spent 2 days trying to make it work on gentoo, without success.
> Even people on Ubuntu, which is a distribution supposed to have been
> tested by Canon, fail to use it.
> 
> Did someone meet some success printing on these printers from gentoo ?
> I can provide a preliminary ebuild if someone is interested.
> 


Reading these posts may suggest a compiled solution as your remedy?
Naturally, you'll have to adjust what steps taken to your gentoo environment.

http://radu.cotescu.com/how-to-install-canon-lbp-printers-in-ubuntu/

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1315665

hth,
James

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Canon LBP7100Cn/LBP7110Cw printers

[Hervé Guillemet]

Thanks James for your help

Le 11/07/2014 03:29, James a écrit :
> Hervé Guillemet <herve <at> guillemet.org> writes:
> 
> 
>> Canon LBP7100Cn/LBP7110Cw now have an official linux "support" from the
>> manufacter with their driver Linux_UFRIILT_PrinterDriver_V100_us_EN.tar.gz .
>> I have spent 2 days trying to make it work on gentoo, without success.
>> Even people on Ubuntu, which is a distribution supposed to have been
>> tested by Canon, fail to use it.
> 
> 
> Gentoo suggest to use this driver package:
> net-print/gutenprint
> 
> for canon printers, via this document:
> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Printing#Gutenprint_Driver

LBP7100Cn/LBP7110Cw uses the proprietary UFR II LT langage, and I don't
think Gutenprint supports it.

> Reading these posts may suggest a compiled solution as your remedy?
> Naturally, you'll have to adjust what steps taken to your gentoo
environment.
>
> http://radu.cotescu.com/how-to-install-canon-lbp-printers-in-ubuntu/
>
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1315665

Trying to install Canon-provided driver is the solution I have worked
on, either from source or from binaries. But even the "source"
distribution of the driver mainly contains binaries. I end up with an
error ("src = libcanon_pdlwrapper.c, line = 633, err = -1¥nError
Response:ReqNo=2, SeqNo=3,opvpErrorNo=-2") generated by the binary
component (c3pldrv).
For these 2 specific printers, the driver provided by Canon is different
that other CAPT printers (Linux_CAPT_PrinterDriver_V260_uk_EN.tar.gz) or
other UFT-II printers (Linux_UFRII_PrinterDriver_V290_uk_EN.tar.gz), for
obscure reasons. That doesn't help find other people with the same
concern...


-- 
Hervé

[gentoo-user] Re: Canon LBP7100Cn/LBP7110Cw printers

[James]

Hervé Guillemet <herve <at> guillemet.org> writes:

  
> > Reading these posts may suggest a compiled solution as your remedy?
> > Naturally, you'll have to adjust what steps taken to your gentoo
> environment.

> > http://radu.cotescu.com/how-to-install-canon-lbp-printers-in-ubuntu/

> > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1315665

> Trying to install Canon-provided driver is the solution I have worked
> on, either from source or from binaries. But even the "source"
> distribution of the driver mainly contains binaries. I end up with an
> error ("src = libcanon_pdlwrapper.c, line = 633, err = -1¥nError
> Response:ReqNo=2, SeqNo=3,opvpErrorNo=-2") generated by the binary
> component (c3pldrv).
> For these 2 specific printers, the driver provided by Canon is different
> that other CAPT printers (Linux_CAPT_PrinterDriver_V260_uk_EN.tar.gz) or
> other UFT-II printers (Linux_UFRII_PrinterDriver_V290_uk_EN.tar.gz), for
> obscure reasons. That doesn't help find other people with the same
> concern...

The only other thing I can think of is to contact canon directly 
for tech support. Maybe another driver for a different canon printer
will work?

Or, set the printer up off a pc running windows with remote printing
via windows shares, samba or some sort of network printing?

sorry I could not help more.


James