[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

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

[Hervé Guillemet]

Le 12/07/2014 16:59, James a écrit :
> 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?

Done. No hope this way. "The linux drivers are provided as is, without
any guaranty nor support".

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

That's the way I print currently, using remotely the cups server of a mac.

> 
> sorry I could not help more.

Thanks a lot anyway.

If someone else had success with these printers, please reply so that we
can see what differ in our installations.

-- 
Hervé

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

[James]

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


> > sorry I could not help more.

> Thanks a lot anyway.

> If someone else had success with these printers, please reply so that we
> can see what differ in our installations.

printing@gentoo.org

The gentoo printing herd may have some additional ideas...


hth,
James

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

[James]

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


> Le 12/07/2014 16:59, James a écrit :
> > Hervé Guillemet <herve <at> guillemet.org> writes:

> If someone else had success with these printers, please reply so that we
> can see what differ in our installations.


Sorry for the late response, I had some ideas last night.......

Here are 4 packages/flags/protocols that you should research and 
see if they work. If Debian or Ubuntu have this printer working,
it would be keen to put one of those machines and your printer
on an isolated subnet and run wireshark to see what protocols
are at work.


avahi\zeroconf
dbus
foomatic
snmp (snmpwalk, snmpget, 
net-analyzer/mbrowse

Also connect to the 'embedded web server' built into most
modern printers. First setup the IP address of the printer
from the printer menu, then ping the printer from your linux
system (fills arp table) and then type in the IP address
from your browser on your linux system and the printers web server
should respond. Maybe something needs to be turned on from
the menu system in the printer's embedded web server?

Have wireshark running on another linux system to sniff the sessions.
Isolate (filter) wireshark to the protocol(s) you want to capture/study.

SNMP might also give you clues as to the error. You are most likely
just missing something simple (at least once you discover the
problem).....


[1] https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=152519

[2] https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=148850

[3] http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/p_Supported_Printers.php

[4] http://avahi.org/wiki/AboutAvahi


hth,
James