Arch linux and printing helpz

craptakular

craptakular

craptakular

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oh hai. Another day, another distro switch lol...

This time I have got everything working in Arch. Just unsure I should risk nuking it all trying to get my Canon ip4700 working, probably should have tried the printer first lol.

Good old Canon have only made 32-bit drivers for deb and rpm, there are source files, but they look complicated and bound for me to fail and screw the system up.

Heres a link to the drivers:

http://software.canon-europe.com/software/0037280.asp?model=

Can anyone walk me through it? I haven't even installed CUPS in Arch yet.

I have another option though! Setup my parents HP laptop printer on my debian server and share that over the network for basic printing. I could then reboot into windows on my arch box when I want to print photo's out on the Canon IP4700.

What do people suggest?
 
The Canon ip4700 is actually connected to my arch box in my bedroom so do I just install cups? where do i put this ppd file?

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Cups this is helpful lol

EDIT:

Helpzzzzzz

Printer 'Canon-iP4700-series' requires the 'pstocanonij' program but it is not currently installed. Please install it before using this printer.
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yeh ok no worries dude. I must admit this Turboprint is awesome. It has full functionality the same as windows. I don't think I could ever create this with CUPS. The killer is that it's 30 euro's though.

Do I blow 30 euro's or reboot into windows whenever I wanna print? or I suppose I could sell the printer and see what 100% compatibility linux ones there are.

TBH though turboprints gimp plugin is so amazing, I still don't think cups can match it.

Gonna do some googling *cough* wink wink lol
 
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