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Do not flag this package out of date if there's no new version available.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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<deleted-account> commented on 2011-05-27 08:44 (UTC)

http://support-au.canon.com.au/contents/AU/EN/0900772408.html

<deleted-account> commented on 2011-05-06 11:53 (UTC)

<deleted-account> commented on 2011-04-22 09:48 (UTC)

New version 2.20 available!

korrode commented on 2011-03-13 09:18 (UTC)

Just updated from 2.00E to 2.20. (Thanks to whoever flagged it out-of-date.) The driver now has 64bit support and the PKGBUILD supports that... it should work fine, but personally I only tested the 32bit driver. I know that in the rpmextract lines in the PKGBUILD i've used '../src' where it would be better to use '$srcdir', however when using $srcdir, irrelevant of double-quotation mark usage, if the path leading to the build directory contains a space rpmextract doesn't succeed.

vit commented on 2010-11-12 17:21 (UTC)

There is v 2.10. On canon-europe (for mf-4100) and please add lib32-libxml2. In my case (MF-4018) it's nessesary on x86_64 system to work.

mzecher commented on 2010-09-19 02:03 (UTC)

Thanks a lot!! It was a pain to run this driver under 64 bits...

<deleted-account> commented on 2010-09-14 11:56 (UTC)

package updated

reztho commented on 2010-08-29 20:31 (UTC)

This package should install the Canon driver gracefully in a x86_64 system. I know it exists a newer version of the driver but I will follow Canon Europe.

ngoonee commented on 2010-06-30 14:07 (UTC)

Thanks. As expected (nothing could ever come THAT easy) my printer isn't listed. Will keep looking.

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