[cups.general] Canon MF4370DN laser

[Helge Blischke]

Felix Miata wrote:

> I finally had to give up trying to keep my LJ4MP going, and bought the
> subject printer on what seems to have been a model closeout. Newer models
> have wireless, while this only has wired ethernet and USB.
> 
> The presumably North America box it came in says right on it Linux is
> supported for print only. I called Canon to find out what driver to use,
> and they claim it is supported on Linux, but not for users in North
> America, and will not tell me what driver to try.
> 
> This printer uses Canon's UFR language, and under Vista "only" supports
> XPS.
> 
> I tried to figure this out by opening the openSUSE 11.0/KDE3 menu's Cups
> printer control choice, but all I get is a busy cursor that only goes away
> by logging out of KDE. :-(
> 
> I searched http://www.cups.org/newsgroups.php?gcups.general for this model
> and came up empty. Any ideas what driver I should try, or if I should
> return it to the store instead? It works fine in WinXP, but not with the
> MultiPASS C2500 or MultiPASS C5500 drivers I tried after not finding any
> MF* models to choose from in the YaST2 printer setup options.

I found a Linux driver to download at http://de.software.canon-
europe.com/software/0035667 .
Theu warn possibly to request the printer's serial number, though.

Helge