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Title: Canon Pixma IP4700 -- Need Driver
Post by: joe_martins on 2010.09.17, 19:58:19
We have several Pixma IP4000 printers which worked fine (except for not having duplex printing) with the Canon 850i driver. I now had to buy another printer, and since the IP4000 is no longer available here in Spain, bought a IP4700 hoping it would work with the same driver and, of course, it doesn't. Has anyone got an IP4700 working with eComstation? Any help is welcome.
Title: Re: Canon Pixma IP4700 -- Need Driver
Post by: Pete on 2010.09.18, 14:37:58
Hi joe_martins

I would have suggested using the eCUPS printing system - http://svn.netlabs.org/ecups/wiki/CupsPort - but it looks like the iP4700 is not yet supported by cups.

A quick look at the canon website shows there is a linux driver source package which looks like it uses a filter not yet ported to OS/2 so I suggest a polite enquiry in the eCUPS newsgroup - news://news.gmane.org:119/gmane.org.netlabs.ecups.devel - to see if there is any chance of the linux driver filter and ppd files being ported to eCUPS.

Regards

Pete
Title: Re: Canon Pixma IP4700 -- Need Driver
Post by: Paul Smedley on 2010.09.18, 15:07:25
Hi guys,

Quote from: Pete on 2010.09.18, 14:37:58
I would have suggested using the eCUPS printing system - http://svn.netlabs.org/ecups/wiki/CupsPort - but it looks like the iP4700 is not yet supported by cups.

A quick look at the canon website shows there is a linux driver source package which looks like it uses a filter not yet ported to OS/2 so I suggest a polite enquiry in the eCUPS newsgroup - news://news.gmane.org:119/gmane.org.netlabs.ecups.devel - to see if there is any chance of the linux driver filter and ppd files being ported to eCUPS.

Gutenprint 5.2.5 includes the IP4400, IP4500, IP4600 & IP5000 - it may be worth trying one of these.

Hi haven't see your post about the linux driver source come thru - can you post the URL here?  If the source is available, I'll try and compile it.

Cheers,

Paul
Title: Re: Canon Pixma IP4700 -- Need Driver
Post by: Pete on 2010.09.19, 02:48:05
Hi Paul

This is the iP4700 linux driver source package http://files.canon-europe.com/files/soft37280/software/IJ_Linux_Printer_Driver_Source_320.tar

Regards

Pete
Title: Re: Canon Pixma IP4700 -- Need Driver
Post by: Paul Smedley on 2010.12.05, 01:07:06
Quote from: Pete on 2010.09.19, 02:48:05
Hi Paul

This is the iP4700 linux driver source package http://files.canon-europe.com/files/soft37280/software/IJ_Linux_Printer_Driver_Source_320.tar


Just took a closer look at this (finally).

From some debian notes on this:

* License         : partly GPL, partly non-free

The non-free material from Canon is a couple of binary-only libraries,
covered by a special licence.  (Ouch!)  All other programs are GPL,
plus, where needed, a special exception allowing to link against the
said libraries.

Without the binary-only libraries it won't work - and as they're linux .so libraries - until there's some kind of way to load these on OS/2 - this can't work :(