Re: Canon F50 printer

[Wade Hampton <wade hampton nsc1 net>]

Alex Olivas wrote:

> Wade Hampton wrote:
>
> > G'day,
> >
> > I happened to purchase one of these a while back (dumb),
> > and it currently is not recognized by Fedora.  Any idea on
> > how to get the usb printer driver stuff to at least recognize
> > this as a printer.  Once I do that, I may be able to use one
> > of the other Canon printer drivers with this beasty.
> > --
> > Wade Hampton
> have you tried looking at /dev/usb/lp0? 

Any access to /dev/usb/lp0 results in "no such device"....  I manually
loaded the printer USB module -- still no luck....

> i have a canon i560 and that's what it's assigned to.
> i also have had pretty good luck with the turboprint drivers. 
> http://www.turboprint.de/english.html
> it doesn't list the F50 as a printer the current version of turboprint 
> supports, but if you send them
> an email they may be able to help you out.

Thanks, I'll do that.
--
Wade Hampton