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Your MP620 is problematic - Canon doesn't even list a Linux driver for it. However, we should be able to get it working.

First, connect it directly to your Puppy machine with a USB cable. Once you have the correct driver installed, you can address the networking issue.

Install the canon_mp620-2.80.pet attached below.

Go to the CUPS web interface and install your printer. Hopefully, it will be auto-detected as an MP620. Print a test page.

Once you have all of that working, come back for details about networking.

[Edit] Even if the printer won't work via USB, the networked driver may still work. Go back to the start of this thread and get the cups-bjnp-0.5.4-i486.pet. Note the comments about firewalls.

However, there has been no confirmation that this driver works in CUPS 1.4. If not, you might want to try it in Quirky or Wary, which have CUPS 1.3.

If you have an MP620 working in a recent Puppy, PLEASE provide some feeback.

Hi,


tried installing the mp620 via usb. after installing the driver, I could select it. However when trying to print a little test from goffice writer, cups shows the printhob as completed. Only it never arrived at the printer


Am at work now, but will try again tonight.



wait a second.... did you edit your prev. post? I recall diffent download locations and files. Or am I messing threads up again?

tuckson wrote: did you edit your prev. post? I recall diffent download locations and files.

Yes. I combined the steps into a single PET. Try it instead.

To test the printer, temporarily remove your goffice - some of these packages are known to conflict with CUPS. Then print a test page from the CUPS web interface.

Well...uninstalled the files and then installed yours.
Cups found 2 usb printers. However, having addad each one of the as a printer can say that none seemed to work. The first one could not print and held the job, the second one told the job is completed, however, the printer recieved no data. usb ports are fine, are being used for maouse and keyboeard to now and then. Any idea what I am doing wrong?
The 2nd one found a location tot usb:///canon/blablabla and the 1st one to usb:///puppypc/blablabla

tuckson wrote: Any idea what I am doing wrong?

Sorry. We are just repeating the procedure from here where it apparently worked.

My only other suggestion would be to boot off your Live CD using "puppy pfix=ram" so you have a clean setup. Then install the printer again.

Here are drivers for the MP280, MP495 and MG5100 series.

The MG5100 has never been tested. Please provide feedback.

with this .pet it works fine, now i just got to test the scanner, thanks a lot : great job !

# sane-find-scanner

# sane-find-scanner will now attempt to detect your scanner. If the
# result is different from what you expected, first make sure your
# scanner is powered up and properly connected to your computer.

# No SCSI scanners found. If you expected something different, make sure that
# you have loaded a kernel SCSI driver for your SCSI adapter.

found USB scanner (vendor=0x04a9 [Canon], product=0x1747 [MP495 series]) at libusb:002:002
found USB scanner (vendor=0x041e [Creative], product=0x401d [Creative WebCam NX Ultra]) at libusb:001:002
# Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be supported by
# SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage.

# Not checking for parallel port scanners.

# Most Scanners connected to the parallel port or other proprietary ports
# can't be detected by this program.
#
The scanner doesn't work yet but it's detected, did i miss something?? thanks a lot for guide me

For Canon scanning, read here.

Your first choice should be the pixma-backend-qrky-1.0.21.pet. Test it with Xsane in the Graphic menu.

still the "no devices avaible" message with pixma-backend-qrky-1.0.21.pet

Read here;

WELL DONE. It works fine but it makes a png file, no other choice? pdf for example ? i didn't see how to change it in the preference menu.

Glad to help.

but it makes a png file, no other choice? pdf for example

IIRC, Scangearmp doesn't offer many choices. If you really want a PDF file, you could do it manually as follows

ok, works with puppyPDF in document/document utilities menu but very very ugly definition when zoom is used (no problem with the png file when zooming)

Using cups 1.3.1.1, trying to get a canon i550 to work...suggestions? As it stands I don't even have Canon listed as an available make even though it does see it when I search for printers...

Using cups 1.3.1.1, trying to get a canon i550 to work...suggestions?

What Puppy are you using?

As it stands I don't even have Canon listed as an available make even though it does see it when I search for printers...

All Puppies have the Gutenprint driver package, so you should definitely be seeing SOME Canon printers.

rcrsn51 wrote:

Using cups 1.3.1.1, trying to get a canon i550 to work...suggestions?

What Puppy are you using?

As it stands I don't even have Canon listed as an available make even though it does see it when I search for printers...

All Puppies have the Gutenprint driver package, so you should definitely be seeing SOME Canon printers.

In this case, Puppy 4.0 (it's the only one that works with this Linksys usb wireless, another baffling mystery). And no, the word "Canon" is not even listed at all.

IIRC, Puppy 4.0 had CUPS 1.1.23. Did you attempt to upgrade CUPS?

rcrsn51 wrote:IIRC, Puppy 4.0 had CUPS 1.1.23. Did you attempt to upgrade CUPS?

I have! As mentioned before, I'm using 1.3.1.1 Per one of your other posts/threads. (thanks by the way!)

Then you also need to install the Gutenprint driver package as described in the other thread here.