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Other Canon Printer Related Projects
This page contains links to guides and other drivers for using Canon printers which only support proprietary formats, on free or open-source operating systems.
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.
A driver that supports printers that accept the CARPS data format.
A driver that supports printers that accept the UFR II data format.
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, whose insights were also important in making Captdriver work.
A fork of the original LBP810 and '1120 driver created by Nicolas Boichat, maintained by Alexander Sakharuk.
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.
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Bookmarks
Unofficial Introduction to CAPT (Executive Summary)
Rootless Write Access To USB Devices
Other Canon Printer-Related Projects
SPECS: 0xA1A1 Command and Response Format
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