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Other Canon Printer Related Projects

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Other Canon Printer Projects

This page lists projects with the aim of supporting, in a free and open-source way, Canon printers which can only process print data in proprietary formats.

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 the LBP-800 in Linux. Adapted from the works of Nicolas Boichat and Rildo Pragana, whose insights were also important in making Captdriver work.

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.

Bookmarks

Installation Guide

Targeted Printers

Essential Test Suite

Unofficial Introduction to CAPT (Executive Summary)

Support Levels

Rootless Write Access To USB Devices

Miscellaneous Tips

Wishlists

Other Canon Printer-Related Projects

SPECS: 0xA1A1 Command and Response Format

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  • SPECS for notes on the operation of the CAPT data formats and communications protocol
  • TESTING for guidelines on testing Captdriver
  • TIPS for potentially helpful information on studying the project or the CAPT format-protocol
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