Other Canon Printer Related Projects

Other Canon Printer 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.

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.

carps-cups

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

cndrvcups-lb

A driver that supports printers that accept the UFR II data format.

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, whose insights were also important in making Captdriver work.

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.