Printing and Scanning with Canon Pixma/Pixus Series

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Massimo B.
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Post by Massimo B. »

NeddySeagoon wrote:CUPS is moving towards 'driverless printing'.
Ok, what do I need to do in Cups?
I found https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Driverless_printing and followed, some

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echo 'Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor ...' | lp
works and prints successfully.
driverless complains about missing ippfind. Do I need that to generate a generic PPD for driverless printing? This is all very confusing.
If almost all common printers need migration, there should be a news or wiki about what to do.

Currently the Gutenprint ppd works, but this will be broken soon when driverless printing migration is finished, true?
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Post by NeddySeagoon »

Massimo B.,

I wimped out of setting up driverless printing here when I lost cups-filters.
I read about driverless printing and discovered that cups-filters was no longer installed by default.
Installing cups-filters here restored normality.

As I understand it, no PPD is required but as I say, I left driverless printing for another day.
Certainly, WiFI Direct, from Android, works here.

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'soon' will be a long time. Older printers will never support driverless printing.
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Hello,

I have recently purchased a Canon Pixma MG2500 printer, and have attempted to follow the instructions here: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Printing#L ... _.28USB.29 to set it up.

I am still relatively new, and don't understand the kernel stuff super well, but I am using a distribution kernel, and it does not feel the need to re-install when I add the usb USE flag.

I was able to emerge cups and system-config-printer.

I also installed net-print/cnijfilter2 and net-print/gutenprint driver packages.

I have added myself to the lp and lpadmin groups, and enabled the cupsd service in openrc.

From the GUI I was able to find the printer. It is listed as my only printer (Canon-MG2500).

When I attempt to print the test page, CUPS reports a resounding success, and says the task has completed. However, the printer does not print the test page (or anything else).

I have also installed net-print/gtklp, net-print/cups-meta, net-fs/samba packages and rebooted the machine a few times while attempting to find a solution.

Where should I look next?
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