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The advice of a B&W home laser is on the money. We go months, almost half a year on one toner and the occasional shake to make it think there's more black in th
by ggm 2y ago
The advice of a B&W home laser is on the money. We go months, almost half a year on one toner and the occasional shake to make it think there's more black in there goes on.
And the advantage of older models is the lack of stupid cartridge chip DRM.
The downside, is you can be trapped (like me) behind Canon UFR II which doesnt exist in Linux, and so the printer is next to impossible to turn into a network unit driven from anything other than the Windows-10 host it USB attaches to, which is also refusing to be a shared printer for <reasons>
- actionfromafar 2y agoJust in case someone didn't find it: https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=313512 https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=313512 If you want to do really insane things, you can install WSL in Windows and share the windows printer from within WSL, as a CUPS printer... this should work, if you can add the local Windows printer as a printer inside WSL first. something like this might work: sudo lpadmin -p Your_Printer_Name -E -v usb://Your_Printer_URI -m everywhere
- ggm 2y agoAwesome! thanks. I shall now have something to play with. -G
- kazinator 2y agoWhy would you share the "windows printer" when you can just share the "printer". Is it just so your print jobs out of WSL appear in your Windows printer queue and can be managed there?
- actionfromafar 2y agoNah, just a possible workaround to OPs "which is also refusing to be a shared printer for <reasons>". (Come to think about, may also need network shenanigans for WSL to be visible on the local network?)
- doubled112 2y agoCanon provides a UFR II driver for Linux. I’ve run my Canon laser off of a Linux print server before. They even have an ARM build. https://canoncanada.custhelp.com/app/answers/answer_view/a_id/1012242/~/ufr-ii%2Fufrii-lt-printer-driver-for-linux-v6.00 https://canoncanada.custhelp.com/app/answers/answer_view/a_i...