capt driver for Canon LBP-810 and LBP-1120

The driver was developped by Nicolas Boichat.

I debianized it for easy (maybe...) installation under Debian. Be aware that the driver is still unstable and buggy. It works fine most of the time, but there are several issues with it. Nicolas Boichat does not seem to maintain it any more; I'll try to fix the main issues myself when I have time.

The package is only for i386 architectures. If you need it for another architecture, please .

For the moment, the package is targeted at cups. However, you can use it without cups, thanks to the capt-print script. I have not tried this script much; it is part of the driver. I think cups is far a better solution.

Download and Installation

Debian

Using my Debian repository

Add the following lines to your /etc/apt/sources.list:

#for cups capt driver
deb http://debian.are-ata.org/ all main
deb-src http://debian.are-ata.org/ all main

update your list
```
apt-get update
```
then install the driver using apt-get:
```
apt-get install cupsys-driver-capt
```
do not forget to read the file /usr/share/doc/cupsys-driver-capt/README.Debian.

Direct download of the package

Download the latest cupsys-driver-capt package directly

Install the package using dpkg:

dpkg -i cupsys-driver-capt_<version>_i386.deb

do not forget to read the file /usr/share/doc/cupsys-driver-capt/README.Debian.

Manual installation

Download the driver
Read the file README for build instructions

Ubuntu

It seems that Ubuntu uses different names than Debian for USB printer devices. If the printer does not print anything, you have to modify the file /etc/capt.conf : change the line

DEVICE=/dev/usb/lp0

DEVICE=/dev/usblp0

Known Bugs

Driver bugs

When configuring the printer in cups, if you tell cups to use the correct /dev/..., it will send data to the printer directly, which interferes with the data capt sends itself, resulting in no page being printed.
The workaround for the moment is to tell cups to use , and tell capt which device to use with a configudarion file. (see /usr/share/doc/cupsys-driver-capt/README.Debian ) .
When printing too big images, the printer only prints a stripe of the picture, and tiles it down the page. It must be a buffer overflow, i'll try to investigate.

Package bugs

See if there is something to do so that the printer appears in the printers manager. Maybe the following command does what needed :
```
/usr/sbin/lpadmin -p LBP1120 -m Canon-LBP-810-capt.ppd -v /dev/null -E
```

Contact

For any problem, bug, idea, regarding the package or the driver, feel free to email me . (DOT='.', AT='@', DASH='-' ; sorry for that, i hate spammer bots ...) I'm not sure i can correct problems concerning the driver, but i'll give it a try.