[cups] Problem with Canon MG5550 printer

Helge Blischke helgeblischke at web.de
Fri Jun 3 13:38:46 PDT 2016


> Am 03.06.2016 um 13:06 schrieb Timothy Murphy <gayleard at eircom.net>:
> 
> I recently acquired a Canon Pixma MG5550 printer.
> I've set it up to access wirelessly, on my LAN.
> 
> It works perfectly under Window-10,
> but under Fedora-24/CUPS it says it has printed 26% of the file,
> and then hangs.
> I'm using the MG5500_Series ppd file offered by CUPS.
> It seems this does not work properly, at least with my printer.
> 
> I wonder if anyone has a similar Canon printer working under Linux CUPS,
> preferable under Fedora or CentOS?
> 

I’d suggest to install Gutenprint and then select the CUPS+Gutenprint-… PPD from 
the list in the CUPS web interface.
But be aware that the Gutenprint list of supported printers tagged this printer as EXPERIMENTAL.

Helge


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