[cups] Canon MG5400 printer, can print from firefox...but from no other application

Gernot Hassenpflug aikishugyo at gmail.com
Wed Jan 13 04:07:53 PST 2016


On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 7:41 PM, peter <commercials24 at yahoo.de> wrote:
>
> first:
> when installing the printer, cups looks for a driver and finds one.
> since it can print from firefox - can i assume that it got the right driver
> or is this maybe the problem?

That would depend on what you installed, no information provided.

> second: is this printer supported at all?

In gutenprint it is, yes, might be experimental though, so check the
gutenprint package NEWS file, and the online web pages to see what the
newest package is.

Regards,
Gernot Hassenpflug



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