Canon LBP 2900 drives me crazy

[Bassel Safadi]

On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 4:58 AM, Bruce Byfield <bbyfield at axion.net> wrote:

> On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 01:46 +0200, Bassel Safadi wrote:
>
>
> You may have already thought of this idea, but is the LBP 2900 a
> postscript printer? If so, you can use the Foomatic generic postscript
> driver, or the driver for just about any other postscript printer, for
> that matter.
>
> Another, probably more useful idea: According to
>
> http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Canon_LBP_2900_with_Samba
>
> you can use the Apple LaserWriter II driver with this printer.
>

I've tried the Apple LaserWriter II driver it work but the printer isn't
printing :( very strange



On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 10:09 AM, Anne Wilson <cannewilson at googlemail.com>
wrote:

>
> Possible, I suppose, but I doubt it, unless you have something unusual in
> your
> smb.conf.
>
> Bruce mentioned a gentoo guide.  In my experience gentoo documentation is
> usually very good, so it's definitely worth looking at.
>
> Anne
>
>
> Nothing unusual in smb.conf, by the way disabling network and samba didn't
helped, also gentoo guide don't work,


this was discussed two years ago in fedora forums and no solution was found,
please have a look at:

http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=125140&highlight=lbp2900



2008/6/20 TV Sivaraman <tvsraman at gmail.com>:

> Hi:
> CAPT 1.7 version is available at:
> http://support-in.canon-asia.com/EN/search?canonsearch=1&lang=EN&category=Laser+Printers&series=Monochrome&model=LBP2900&menu=Download
> .
> You can try that.
> Sivaraman.
>
> I'm downloading it right now, will report as soon as I try it , hope this
will work...


Thank you all for you help and advices,
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