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I cannot the life of me get my Linux laptop to use my fucking Canon WiFi printer. It detects the printer, says it's connected, but it simply will not send a print job to it. Windows, iOS and android all use it just fine...but this fucking Linux machine just won't, I've spent hours fiddling with drivers and nothing works, it's infuriating!
Ironically my fedora computer connected out of the box, but my wife’s windows laptop breaks the printer each time it tries to connect.
If there’s a firmware update available I have to manually update the printer firmware after her computer tries to print.
Mac and Linux work fine 100% of the time.
Eh, my in-laws have the same problem.. but on windows
We use a Canon at work, behind a print server called UniPrint, or some shit. I figured out how to use it to print from a USB drive long before I finally caved and mailed the guy who maintains it to ask how to get my KDE Neom machine to successfully send a print job. I figured out how to see it, I could check the toner levels, but I could not send a print.
Works now, because he changed a setting.
Bastard printers.
Yeah that sounds bad :/ All Brother here with no issues. Esp. Linux Mint just autodetects and sets everything up directly.
Needed to install drivers to get full features like double sided printing. However they are easy enough to install
Mint detected my Brother but nothing could print until I downloaded a driver from Brother's website. Buttery smooth since.
Can u tell ur model of printer maybe I can help I had fight a bit with canon printer too a bit but in the end it started working
I'd have to look at it when I get home, I have no clue off the top of my head.
It wasn't canon in my case, but I found with other network printers on Linux that not bothering with "auto finding" and just putting the IP address in manually (give fixed devices fixed IPs on your router to make this kind of thing easier). Most desktop environments have a printer tool that should allow manually adding a printer.
I have to say with the work provided HP PoS I last had, it was equally as difficult to get windows to talk to it, to be fair.
Yeah I've tried the route of manually inputting a static IP, it will connect to the printer but it still fails to send jobs to the printer. I've resigned to just accepting that it's incapable of WiFi printing with the HW I have, so I send documents to other devices for printing.
What’s the print make/model?
What flavor of Linux?
I can get mine to speak to my shitberg printer, but I went and bought bootleg ink cartridges and I have a half-day printer battle on my to do list to reset the ink levels and force the printer to accept non-HP ink into its heart.
Check if you selected the correct driver
I've been trying to get my MIL's printer working forever.