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Printer Suggestion for ArcaOS

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Martin Iturbide:
Hi

--- Quote from: Silvan Scherrer on February 14, 2025, 03:01:26 pm ---I don't see how it will work att all w/o the source for the cups filter. As ion the PPD it clear states:
*cupsFilter: "application/vnd.cups-raster 0 rastertoufr2"
Which means this filter is doing most of the work. Sure we could eventually build this filter, but iirc the source is closed source from canon.

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Thanks for the information Silvan. That means that the chances for this printers to run with CUPS on are low.

Pete:
Hi Martin

I could add that when I bought a Canon MG7550 inkjet printer/scanner there was no cups support - Canon provided linux systems with ppd files and a closed source "plugin". However, cups was developing support for that printer without using the Canon ppds or plugin, I had to "hassle" Paul into updating "our" cups and ended up with a nicely working printer.

However, looking these pages
   https://www.cups.org/ 
   https://www.pwg.org/ipp/everywhere.html 
   https://openprinting.github.io/current/
it seems the only development is IPP Everywhere.

So, it looks like cups V3 will see us all switch to IPP Everywhere .

Maybe Paul and Silvan can enlighten us further when they look into porting cups V3 ...


Regards

Pete



Regards

Pete

andreas:

--- Quote from: Silvan Scherrer on February 14, 2025, 03:01:26 pm ---Sure we could eventually build this filter, but iirc the source is closed source from canon.

--- End quote ---

I wrote a mail to CANON and asked for this...

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