Friday, August 24, 2018

Configuring Canon IR-ADV printer in Manjaro

Staring a new job I needed a new OS and decided to go with Manjaro so as not to have to try to remember how to install Arch again.
Everything is mostly great, but I installed the Canon CQUE driver software and it seemed to see the printer next door but when I tried to use it I would get error codes or nothing at all.
I figured out I needed to use the UFR II drivers instead (whatever that is) which I discovered by looking for a driver in Windows (which worked). So in Manjaro I removed the cque driver and used
yay -S cndrvcups-lb
to install the different drivers (which don't use PCL/PS/whatever) I then reinstalled the printer using the new driver and everything is good!