How to make Canon TS8150/51/52 print CDs?
I bought this printer because there was a Linux driver supplied by Canon. However it does not support printing CDs or DVDs. That functionality is provided by the Windows driver, and works well, albeit having a very large driver. I am somewhat aggrieved that Canon did not say that CD printing was not available in Linux. I tried a proprietary printer driver system (Turboprint, I think) and that did not do it either. No warning given, at least it was only the free trial.
I have looked through the GPL source and there is no mention of CDs, the nearest thing being a 5 inch square, which I suppose could be used, with a CD sized circle drawn on the template in whatever design tool I was using. But, the problem would then be to send the command to actually put the printer into CD printing mode.
Do I have to find a way of reverse engineering the Windows driver, e.g. by monitoring the WiFi traffic (which I think would be very laborious) or is there some better way of making it work?
Any ideas will be greatly appreciated!
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I bought this printer because there was a Linux driver supplied by Canon. However it does not support printing CDs or DVDs. That functionality is provided by the Windows driver, and works well, albeit having a very large driver. I am somewhat aggrieved that Canon did not say that CD printing was not available in Linux. I tried a proprietary printer driver system (Turboprint, I think) and that did not do it either. No warning given, at least it was only the free trial.
I have looked through the GPL source and there is no mention of CDs, the nearest thing being a 5 inch square, which I suppose could be used, with a CD sized circle drawn on the template in whatever design tool I was using. But, the problem would then be to send the command to actually put the printer into CD printing mode.
Do I have to find a way of reverse engineering the Windows driver, e.g. by monitoring the WiFi traffic (which I think would be very laborious) or is there some better way of making it work?
Any ideas will be greatly appreciated!
drivers printing dvd canon cd
asked Mar 15 at 12:03
tiger99tiger99
112
add a comment |
I bought this printer because there was a Linux driver supplied by Canon. However it does not support printing CDs or DVDs. That functionality is provided by the Windows driver, and works well, albeit having a very large driver. I am somewhat aggrieved that Canon did not say that CD printing was not available in Linux. I tried a proprietary printer driver system (Turboprint, I think) and that did not do it either. No warning given, at least it was only the free trial.
I have looked through the GPL source and there is no mention of CDs, the nearest thing being a 5 inch square, which I suppose could be used, with a CD sized circle drawn on the template in whatever design tool I was using. But, the problem would then be to send the command to actually put the printer into CD printing mode.
Do I have to find a way of reverse engineering the Windows driver, e.g. by monitoring the WiFi traffic (which I think would be very laborious) or is there some better way of making it work?
Any ideas will be greatly appreciated!
drivers printing dvd canon cd
asked Mar 15 at 12:03
tiger99tiger99
112
I bought this printer because there was a Linux driver supplied by Canon. However it does not support printing CDs or DVDs. That functionality is provided by the Windows driver, and works well, albeit having a very large driver. I am somewhat aggrieved that Canon did not say that CD printing was not available in Linux. I tried a proprietary printer driver system (Turboprint, I think) and that did not do it either. No warning given, at least it was only the free trial.
I have looked through the GPL source and there is no mention of CDs, the nearest thing being a 5 inch square, which I suppose could be used, with a CD sized circle drawn on the template in whatever design tool I was using. But, the problem would then be to send the command to actually put the printer into CD printing mode.
Do I have to find a way of reverse engineering the Windows driver, e.g. by monitoring the WiFi traffic (which I think would be very laborious) or is there some better way of making it work?
Any ideas will be greatly appreciated!
drivers printing dvd canon cd
drivers printing dvd canon cd
asked Mar 15 at 12:03
tiger99tiger99
112
asked Mar 15 at 12:03
tiger99tiger99
112
asked Mar 15 at 12:03
tiger99tiger99
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asked Mar 15 at 12:03
tiger99tiger99
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