Other Canon Printer Related Projects

Other Canon Printer Projects

This page contains links to projects related to Canon printers devices that do not support PCL, IPP or Wi-Fi printing.

anticapt

Alexey Galakhov's "scratch repo" containing an early version of the Hi-SCoA compression and decompression code.

Canon CAPT Drivers on Ubuntu 16.04+ (64-bit)

Guide for anyone still interested in attempting to use the original Canon drivers. This guide contains instructions on how to install the original drivers on more recent versions of Ubuntu using Linux Containers (LXC) virtualisation. Written by Thomas Kern.

Canon LBP printer driver installer for Ubuntu (ubuntu_canon_printer)

This shell script automates installation of the official Canon CAPT drivers on newer versions of Ubuntu. It also installs supporting startup scripts and adds desktop shortcuts for the CAPT Status Monitor. Edited by Bao-Hiep Le.

carps-cups

A driver that supports printers that accept the CARPS data format. Created by Ondrej Zary.

carps-cups redjoe fork

This fork implements preliminary support for the MF3200 series devices that is missing from the original carps-cups driver.

cndrvcups-lb

A driver that supports printers that accept the UFR II data format. Repository maintained by You-Sheng Yang.

LBP-800 Linux

A driver which supports LBP-800 printers connected via IEEE 1284 parallel ports in Linux. Adapted from the works of Nicolas Boichat and Rildo Pragana, Created by Oleksii Leonov.

Unofficial LBP810 and LBP1120 Driver

A fork of the original LBP810 and '1120 driver created by Nicolas Boichat, maintained by Alexander Sakharuk.

Unofficial LBP3010 CAPT3 Solaris Driver

Benoit Bolsee's LBP3010 driver is at time of writing still available for download. Despite being a completely unrelated driver, insights drawn from its code are applied in Captdriver.