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Re:Canon is telling customers how to override counterfeit ca... by moepstar on Sunday January 09, 2022 @10:36AM (#29864111)
Probably easily fixed with a Raspberry Pi (probably even a Zero W or something like that) and CUPS?
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Re:Canon is telling customers how to override counterfeit ca... by GekkePrutser on Monday January 10, 2022 @05:16AM (#29872664)
Tried that but it had too quirky drivers.. Just couldn't get it going properly. It was one of those $50 printers that renders everything on the client. Brother actually did provide Linux drivers (which is amazing compared to the likes of HP, Lexmark etc) but not for ARM, only intel.

Eventually someone made open source drivers but half the time the printer wouldn't respond.

It's now in the hackerspace where they use it for making overhead sheets for PCB printing. So it's still having a purpose in life, I didn't throw it away :)

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