Package Details: capt-src 2.71-5

Git Clone URL: https://aur.archlinux.org/capt-src.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base: capt-src
Description: Canon CAPT Printer Driver for Linux. Compiled from source code.
Upstream URL: http://support-asia.canon-asia.com/
Keywords: canon capt printer
Licenses: custom
Conflicts: cndrvcups-common-lb, cndrvcups-lb
Submitter: reztho
Maintainer: mistersmee
Last Packager: mistersmee
Votes: 77
Popularity: 0.000002
First Submitted: 2010-08-29 20:28 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2024-05-26 12:53 (UTC)

Pinned Comments

reztho commented on 2020-06-11 14:55 (UTC) (edited on 2020-06-11 18:47 (UTC) by reztho)

Do not expect this driver to work in the near future if Canon doesn't release a new version soon. This driver is from 2017 and the GCC environment started deprecating a lot of stuff used by this driver. Please, ask for better Linux support to Canon.

Do not flag this package out of date if there's no new version available. That's bad community behavior. A comment telling about the issue is enough.

If your machine uses the x86_64 arch, the multilib pacman repo will be needed for this driver: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Official_repositories#multilib

For an alternative 100% open source driver although not official by Canon, go to: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/captdriver-git/

buovjaga commented on 2020-01-09 10:33 (UTC)

Re: driver deprecation - the CUPS creator opened this issue to discuss how to handle old devices: https://github.com/apple/cups/issues/5271

From one of his comments: "Before we drop PPDs, we will be working with developers to create those printer applications (particularly Gutenprint), and will likely end up creating our own printer application (based on the existing ippserver sample code) to support existing PostScript and CUPS raster drivers. So the goal is definitely not to leave people SOL, but rather to plan for a future where we aren't limited by the capabilities of the past."

reztho commented on 2019-10-06 11:44 (UTC)

Now you'll see this warning message: lpadmin: Printer drivers are deprecated and will stop working in a future version of CUPS.

Not sure what this will mean for the future with this driver.

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Lone_Wolf commented on 2012-07-24 16:31 (UTC)

I am orphaning this package as there are too many problems with the canon drivers. The canon printer of a friend of mine that used to work, hasn't been able to print anything for 2 months. No error messages are found, downgrading to a 3.2 kernel and downgrading cups have all been in vain. The printer doesn't work with the latest versions of Mint & opensuse. I'll advise my friend to sell the printer to someone who only uses windows.

<deleted-account> commented on 2012-07-22 21:20 (UTC)

Lone_Wolf: Ok @ testing.

Lone_Wolf commented on 2012-07-22 01:13 (UTC)

Kenchin : it could be kernel related, but it looks more like a problem with recent cups versions. A test with the LTS-kernel installed could answer that. Jindur : lately the package doesn't work on x86_64 (on printers it used to work). once that is solved, are you willing to help test a 32-bit version of the package ?

<deleted-account> commented on 2012-07-21 13:36 (UTC)

I just downloaded the cndrvcups-common from AUR, which is 32-bit. But now this cndrvcups-capt doesn't work with it, because it's actually 64-bit. I get the error message: $ makepkg -s Package is x86_64 only for now, aborting makepkg Could you maybe also provide a 32-bit version, please?

<deleted-account> commented on 2012-06-21 06:21 (UTC)

I tested installing the .tar.gz package unto another Ubuntu 12.04 (64-bit) box, and it has the same problem. Would it be related to the Linux kernel version whereby the binary CAPT driver is incompatible?

Lone_Wolf commented on 2012-06-12 11:19 (UTC)

Same here with a LBP 7200 . I'm looking into this, but only error message from cppd sofar is : data send error . And that message doesn't even come all the time.

<deleted-account> commented on 2012-06-12 06:13 (UTC)

I have a Canon LBP6000 via USB. Built and installed the package and followed the post-installation instructions to setup the printer. statusui detects the printer and reports status idle. When tried to print a file (e.g. PDF), CUPS reports print completed, but nothing is printed. I'm using Arch64 and ccpd is running. Has anyone encountered this issue?

Lone_Wolf commented on 2012-05-29 14:46 (UTC)

Install file and howto had errors, corrected.

hseara commented on 2012-05-24 09:32 (UTC)

Hi, There is a problem. When I print through a windowds servers using samba in my Canon I-SENSYS MF4018 using MF4010 driver provided by this package only the first page is printed. After that the printer shows an error and must be reinitialized. This is likely to be an upstream problem because other colleges with other linux distributions have encountered the same problem.

Lone_Wolf commented on 2012-05-23 19:46 (UTC)

Thanks to hseara's help with testing, this package now works on i686 support

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