

#Canon mf4370dn driver linux drivers#
It seems that, despite the "success" message from the installers, these drivers are not present (usable?) on my system. Here are the details I use in the CUPS admin web interface: Followed your instructions on extracting, installing (no errors). Downloaded the driver package from your link (the one I had grabbed was a.Restarted cups as per your instructions.In other words, so far no difference to what I had originally done. I validated what double clicking the files does (see my original step 7) and it appears to pass them to "Apper". Got a "File installed successfully" message for both. tried right clicking the "86_64.rpm" and selected "Open with/Install Remove Software", that gave me an error message right clicked again, this time selected "Open with/Apper Installer" repeated with 86_64.rpm.connected to the cups web interface (I had not heard of this method before, quite interesting) but didn't find the printer in the selection.I tried to work my way back to see where things failed for me: Thank you so much for these clear instructions, Deano. The Canon HTML installation instructions are to: While I couldn't get the noted (#2) pre-requisite figured out, I hoped that "already present" (#4) had carried over to OpenSuse 13.1 and that, given that the instructions were a bit dated, I could still proceed with the installation.ħ.
#Canon mf4370dn driver linux software#
When I do a search for "ghost" in the YaST Software Management tool, all but 2 packages (ghostscript-devel, Ghostview) show installed (as one of my troubleshooting steps, I had installed a few of the packages that weren't default (ghostscript-cjk, ghostscript-fonts, textlive-epstopdf)Ħ. Their OS Status page lists OpenSUSE up to v11 and indicates "already present" (not sure what that means, my guess is that the required packages are part of the distro's repository).ĥ. The Common Open Printing System web site mentions the same command (#2 above) for checking presence of the "OpenPrinting Driver Interface". You canĭo this using the following command in a terminal program such as GNOMEĤ. To use this printer driver, you need Ghostscript including common APIs.īefore installing the driver, confirm that Ghostscript is installed. Grabbed "Linux_UFRII_PrinterDriver_V270_us_EN" from the Canon web site and extracted it on my system. I've taken a number of stabs at getting this to work, regrettably without success. I would appreciate some help with my attempt get a network based Canon ImageClass MF4370DN printer to work from my OpenSuse install.
