[ncolug] Re: Help with Canon Imagageclass LBP6230dw printer on Debian/Cups

  • From: Mike <bellyacres@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: ncolug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2015 19:44:21 -0400

On 09/21/2015 04:49 PM, Chuck wrote:

On Mon, 2015-09-21 at 10:13 -0400, Henry Keultjes wrote:
Mike worked on this untill he pulled all his hair out!

Last year I installed a Canon D420 and with the help of a Canon Linux
techy got it to work fine. Alicia wanted the copier function so she has
the D420 and I bought the 6230

It prints a test page. It has occasionally printed other things.

Now Canon says they have no Linux support.

Does someone have an Ubuntu system that we could try this on?

Henry Keultjes <keultjesh@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:keultjesh@xxxxxxxxx>>
Mansfield Ohio USA
Direct 419-525-1111

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According to this page http://www.openprinting.org/printer/Canon/Canon-BJC-6200 it's not well supported, but you should be able to get something out of it. For my money it's HP or Brother for printing under Linux. I will not even begin to look at LexMark, and Canon has been tough in the past as well.


It's not a BJC, it's a laser. ImageClass 6230. Downloaded drivers from Cannon, installed, blah, blah. The problem is in conversion from ps to whatever propitiatory language this printer is using. Watching top I can see a job go to gs, then to c3pldrv, which then maxes out a CPU to 100%.

The D420 does print via samba to a Windows box and seems to be working...

Mike

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